Dave Brubeck Quartet -Time Out 1959 ORIG JAZZ COLUMBIA STEREO LP 6-EYE LABEL

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Sleeve Grade: EX- (small seam split at top) VERY CLEAN and BRIGHT Strong spine.
LP Grade: EX (a few slight scuffs)
Label:  Columbia ?– CS 8192
Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country:  US
Released:  1959
Genre:  Jazz
Style:  Bop, Hard Bop
This 1959 original LP is on The Absolute Sound (TAS) list for recordings of special merit.
Label Notes
Columbia Red label.
Stereo - Fidelity on top of label.
6 eye label: 3 white "eyes" on both left and right edges.
COLUMBIA is printed in white.
Other print is black.
Track listing ?

Side one  
1.     "Blue Rondo à la Turk"       6:44
2.     "Strange Meadow Lark"       7:22
3.     "Take Five"       5:24
Side two
1.     "Three to Get Ready"       5:24
2.     "Kathy's Waltz"       4:48
3.     "Everybody's Jumpin'"       4:23
4.     "Pick Up Sticks"       4:16

All compositions by Dave Brubeck, except "Take Five" by Paul Desmond.
Personnel
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dave Brubeck – piano
Paul Desmond – alto saxophone
Eugene Wright – bass
Joe Morello – drums

Production
Teo Macero – producer
Fred Plaut – engineer
S. Neil Fujita – cover artwork
Liner Notes - Steve Race

Time Out is a jazz album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, released in 1959 on Columbia Records, catalogue CS 8192. 
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 9/8 and 5/4.
The album is a subtle blend of cool and West Coast jazz.
It peaked at #2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, the first jazz album to ever achieve that status.
Time Out was the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies.
The single "Take Five" also sold more than a million.
In 2005, it 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 in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Dave Brubeck's defining masterpiece, Time Out is one of the most rhythmically innovative albums in jazz history, the first to consciously explore time signatures outside of the standard 4/4 beat or 3/4 waltz time.
It was a risky move -- Brubeck's record company wasn't keen on releasing such an arty project, and many critics initially roasted him for tampering with jazz's rhythmic foundation.
But for once, public taste was more advanced than that of the critics.
Buoyed by a hit single in altoist Paul Desmond's ubiquitous "Take Five," Time Out became an unexpectedly huge success, and still ranks as one of the most popular jazz albums ever. 
That's a testament to Brubeck and Desmond's abilities as composers, because Time Out is full of challenges both subtle and overt -- it's just that they're not jarring.
Brubeck's classic "Blue Rondo à la Turk" blends jazz with classical form and Turkish folk rhythms, while "Take Five," despite its overexposure, really is a masterpiece; listen to how well Desmond's solo phrasing fits the 5/4 meter, and how much Joe Morello's drum solo bends time without getting lost.
The other selections are richly melodic as well, and even when the meters are even, the group sets up shifting polyrhythmic counterpoints that nod to African and Eastern musics.
Take Five doesn't just sound sophisticated -- it really is sophisticated music, which lends itself to cerebral appreciation, yet never stops swinging.
Countless other musicians built on its pioneering experiments, yet it's amazingly accessible for all its advanced thinking, a rare feat in any art form.
This belongs in even the most rudimentary jazz collection.
Few jazz recordings from the LP era have enjoyed the enduring popularity of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out.
A brisk seller when released in 1959, it has remained in print ever since, and sold enough copies to be certified platinum.
That was a great year for jazz -- Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue and Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah Um were also released in 1959.
All three were produced by Teo Macero, engineered by Fred Plaut, and released by Columbia Records.

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