Time Out + Bonus Album

Contains new specially prepared liner notes by PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ’s writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris’ prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE

INCLUDES BONUS ALBUM "COUNTDOWN - TIME IN OUTER SPACE"

“Time Out has become one of those special records that even people who don’t buy jazz records tend to own. You might put Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (available in this same series) in the same category, along with something by Billie Holiday and maybe Louis Armstrong. The point is that people don’t always want ambiguity and pain in their music. They sometimes want precisely that quality of clear-sightedness that Brubeck always conveyed. Putting on a Brubeck album, especially this one, is like boarding a plane and hearing the captain’s voice describing the day’s route. It will take you somewhere exotic, by routes and procedures you don’t understand; but you believe in it.” PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ

“Much like Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet has never lost its power of fascination. On these unforgettable tunes, Dave Brubeck and his alter ego Paul Desmond seem to be painting a canvas. Every note is like a touch of color, expertly distilled, subtly hypnotic, ideally thought. Time Out opened the doors of jazz perception to millions of people, and continues to do so.” JAZZ MAGAZINE

PERSONNEL:

Paul Desmond, alto sax
Dave Brubeck, piano
Eugene Wright, bass
Joe Morello, drums

New York, June-August, 1959.

BONUS ALBUM (8-18): COUNTDOWN - TIME IN OUTER SPACE (Columbia CS-8575)
Same personnel. New York, May-December 1961.

TRACKS:

01. Blue Rondo à la Turk
02. Strange Meadow Lark
03. Take Five
04. Three to Get Ready
05. Kathy’s Waltz
06. Everybody’s Jumpin’
07. Pick Up Sticks

08. Countdown (*)
09. Eleven Four (*)
10. Why Phillis Waltz (*)
11. Someday My Prince Will Come (*)
12. Castilian Blues (*)
13. Castilian Drums (*)
14. Fast Life (*)
15. Waltz Limp (*)
16. Three’s a Crowd (*)
17. Danse Duet
18. Back to Earth (*)

TOTAL TIME: 77:52 min.