Time Out (album)

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Time Out is a studio album by the American jazz group the Dave Brubeck Quartet, released in 1959 on Columbia Records. Recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City, it is based upon the use of time signatures that were unusual for jazz such as Template:Time signature, Template:Time signature and Template:Time signature.[1] The album is a subtle blend of cool and West Coast jazz.[2][3]

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and was the first jazz album to sell a million copies.[4] The single "Take Five" off the album was also the first jazz single to sell one million copies.[4] By 1963, the record had sold 500,000 units, and in 2011 it was certified double platinum by the RIAA, signifying over two million records sold.[5][6] The album was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009.

The album was selected, in 2005, for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Background

The album was intended as an experiment using musical styles Brubeck discovered abroad while on a United States Department of State sponsored tour of Eurasia, such as when he observed in Turkey a group of street musicians performing a traditional Turkish folk song that was played in Template:Time signature time with subdivisions of Template:Serif, a rare meter for Western music.[7]

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Music

Although the theme of Time Out is non-common-time signatures, things are not quite so simple. "Blue Rondo à la Turk" starts in Template:Time signature, with a typically Balkan Template:Serif subdivision into short and long beats (the rhythm of the Turkish zeybek, equivalent of the Greek zeibekiko) as opposed to the more typical way of subdividing Template:Time signature as Template:Serif, but the saxophone and piano solos are in Template:Time signature. The title is a play on Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11, and reflects the fact that the band heard the rhythm while traveling in Turkey.[3][9]

"Strange Meadow Lark" begins with a piano solo that exhibits no clear time signature, but then settles into a fairly ordinary Template:Time signature swing once the rest of the group joins. "Take Five" is in Template:Time signature throughout. According to Desmond, "It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo."[8] "Three to Get Ready" begins in waltz-time, after which it begins to alternate between two measures of Template:Time signature and two of Template:Time signature. "Kathy's Waltz", named after Brubeck's daughter Cathy but misspelled, starts in Template:Time signature, and only later switches to double-waltz time before merging the two. "Everybody's Jumpin'" is mainly in a very flexible Template:Time signature, while "Pick Up Sticks" firms that up into a clear and steady Template:Time signature.

In an article for The Independent, Spencer Leigh speculated that "Kathy's Waltz" later inspired the Beatles song "All My Loving" (written by Paul McCartney, credited to Lennon/McCartney). The two songs share similar rhythmic endings to the last phrases of their melodies.[10]

Legacy

The Dave Brubeck Quartet followed up Time Out with three more similarly named albums that also made use of uncommon time signatures: Time Further Out (1961), Countdown—Time in Outer Space (1962) and Time Changes (1964). Another album, Time In (1966), which featured the quartet but was credited only to Brubeck, echoed the title of Time Out, although it made use of more conventional time signatures.

In 2005, Time Out was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. It was also listed that year in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2009 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[11]

Reissues

In 1997, the album was remastered for compact disc by Legacy Recordings.

In 2009, Legacy Recordings released a special three-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Time Out. This edition offers a much higher dynamic range than the 1997 remaster. In addition to the complete album, the Legacy Edition includes a bonus disc featuring previously unreleased concert recordings of the same Brubeck Quartet from the 1961, 1963, and 1964 gatherings of Newport Jazz Festival. The Legacy Edition's third disc is a DVD featuring a 30-minute interview with Brubeck in 2003, and an interactive "piano lesson" where the viewer can toggle through four different camera angles of Brubeck performing a solo version of "Three to Get Ready".[12]

In 2020, the album Time OutTakes was released, which was overseen by Brubeck's children and released on their own record label, Brubeck Editions. The album features alternate takes of "Blue Rondo a la Turk", "Strange Meadowlark", "Take Five", "Three To Get Ready" and "Kathy's Waltz" (now billed as "Cathy's Waltz"), as well as two songs from the same sessions that had not been included on the album: a cover of "I'm In a Dancing Mood" (which Brubeck had previously covered, live and on the album Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport) and "Watusi Jam" (a take on Brubeck's composition "Watusi Drums").[13] The release was chosen as a Critics Pick by The New York Times.[14]

Track listing

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Personnel

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Production

  • Teo Macero – producer
  • Pat Maher - engineer
  • Fred Plaut – engineer
  • S. Neil Fujita – cover artwork
  • Seth Rothstein – project director
  • Russell Gloyd – reissue producer
  • Mark Wilder – reissue remastering
  • Cozbi Sanchez-Cabrera – reissue art direction

Charts

Album Billboard (United States)

Year Chart Position
1961 Pop Albums 2

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Singles Billboard (United States)

Year Single Chart Position
1961 "Take Five" Adult Contemporary 5
1961 "Take Five" Pop Singles 25

Sales and certifications

Time Out was the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies.[15][4] The album was certified platinum in 1997 and double platinum in 2011.[5][16][6] The single, "Take Five", also sold over a million.[17]

Country Certification Sales
United States 2× Platinum[18] 2,000,000+

References

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External links

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