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Dave Brubeck's Time Out (Hardcover)
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Dave Brubeck's Time Out (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz
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Dave Brubeck's Time Out ranks among the most popular, successful,
and influential jazz albums of all time. Released by Columbia in
1959 alongside such other landmark albums as Miles Davis's Kind of
Blue and Charles Mingus's Mingus Ah Um, Time Out became the first
jazz album to be certified platinum, while its featured track,
"Take Five" became the first jazz single to surpass one million
copies sold. In addition to its commercial successes, the album is
widely recognized as a pioneering endeavor into the use of odd
meters in jazz. With its opening track, "Blue Rondo a la Turk"
written in 9/8, its hit single "Take Five" in 5/4, and equally
innovative plays on the more common 3/4 and 4/4 meters on other
tracks, Take Five has played an important role in the development
of modern jazz. In this book, author Stephen A. Crist draws on
nearly ten years of archival research to offer the most thorough
examination to date of this seminal jazz album. Supplementing his
research with interviews with key individuals, including Brubeck's
widow Iola and daughter Catherine, as well as interviews conducted
with Brubeck himself prior to his passing in 2012, Crist paints a
complete picture of the album's origins, creation, and legacy.
Couching careful analysis of each of the album's seven tracks
within historical and cultural context, he offers fascinating
insights into the composition and development of some of the albums
best known songs. From Brubeck's 1958 State Department-sponsored
tour of Turkey during which he first encountered the aksak rhythms
that would from the basis of "Blue Rondo a la Turk" to the
backstage jam session that laid the seeds for "Take Five", Crist
sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums
in jazz history.
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