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Dave Brubeck's Time Out
Contributor(s): Crist, Stephen A. (Author)
ISBN: 0190217723     ISBN-13: 9780190217723
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles - Jazz
- Music | Individual Composer & Musician
- Music | Genres & Styles - Chamber
Dewey: 785.251
LCCN: 2019010573
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 296 pages
 
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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 one of the first jazz albums to be
certified platinum, while its featured track, Take Five, became the best-selling jazz single of the twentieth century, surpassing one million copies. 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 à la Turk written in 9/8, its hit single Take Five in 5/4, and equally innovative uses of the more common 3/4 and 4/4 meters on other tracks, Time Out has played an important role in the development of modern jazz.

In this book, author Stephen A. Crist draws on nearly fifteen 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 contexts, he offers fascinating insights into the
composition and development of some of the album's best-known tunes. From Brubeck's 1958 State Department-sponsored tour, during which he first encountered the Turkish aksak rhythms that would form the basis of Blue Rondo à la Turk, to the backstage jam session that planted the seeds for Take
Five, Crist sheds an exciting new light on one of the most significant albums in jazz history.