His band and engineers created some of the best recorded music ever, imho.
Think about the technological limits of the time. Pretty amazing.
Here’s a good one, Crappy youtube q of sound but I think it gives a good sense of what they were achieving. If you can get a good recording… Smiles.
My dad was a huge Brubeck fan. Take Five was burned into my brain by the time I was 5 years old.
The YT video seems like a faster tempo than I remember.
Yeah, definitely faster. From the few live recordings I’ve heard they tended to “rush” compared to the studio recordings.
Love it!
Dave Brubeck “sort of tired of the traditional patterns of jazz” and the songs on the album “Time Out” are experiments “explor[ing] different meters beyond the traditional typical 4/4 and 3/4”. Paul Desmond composed Take Five with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, as well as “Take Ten” on his first solo album.
I got to hear Brubeck a couple of times. Unfortunately it was after the quartet. I’m a big fan of Paul Desmond and he plays on one of my all time favorite jazz recordings.
Take Five wandered into my head as I was driving out to a campground Friday. Not a song that I think about all that often. I come back today and see a post about it. Weird
Not really a fan, to be honest.
I dig it, good classicy jazz.
Some critics are dismissive of Brubeck - a lot they know - but Time Out’s a great album, very well recorded, especially the drums. One of several records which introduced me to jazz many years ago.
Interesting that Joe Morello was a violinist before a drummer
Geoff
I’m a critic, a lot I know I guess.
Tom Morello is a helluva guitar player.
I get it. I’m not much of a jazz fan. But most of this album counts among my favorite tracks. Handful of other tracks by other jazz artists make the cut.
Agree! The mic placement, mix, overall quality are superb.Even by today’s standards.Dynamic range doesn’t compare, but otherwise.
To clarify, JR, I meant ‘official music critics’, who in Dave’s case, take apart his phrasing, ryhthms etc and conclude he wasn’t that good.
Everyone’s entitled to like a piece of music or musicians, or not, of course: there are whole genres of music which I can’t stand and musicians who are popular and well regarded, but I just don’t ‘get’ - for example, Keith Jarrett.
TBH, I’m not familiar with most Jazz music but there are a number of artists & groups I really enjoy. But when you have to strain your brain to follow the melody line, like what little I’ve heard from Thelonious Monk, I’m out. I bought a Monk LP as a teenager because one of my friends in band class said it was an amazing album. I don’t think I even got through both sides.
I think what I tend to like most about jazz is the percussion.
I love Jazz. But I get where you are coming from. One of my first Jazz CDs (probably right out of college 30 years ago) was John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” which is supposed to be one of the best Jazz albums of all time. I think because he did some new, revolutionary things, but I am not sure. I never could get into it. I have listened to a lot more jazz over the years, so maybe I’ll give it another shot.
On a different note, but kind of similar…I read Wuthering Heights which is listed as one of the 50 best books of all time on some lists. I had to Google why it is considered good.
Interesting. I am a Steely Dan fan, so I felt. Like I had to read William s. Burroughs “naked Lunch”. If there was some brilliance there, I didn’t get it. But, I didn’t real the whole thing, I lost interest pretty quickly
Fagen referencing Brubeck in New Frontier…
“Do you have a steady boyfriend
Cause honey I’ve been watching you
I hear you’re mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes I like him too
He’s an artist, a pioneer
We’ve got to have some music on the new frontier”