muzycy:
Paul Desmond: alto saxophone
Dave Brubeck: piano
Eugene Wright: bass
Joe Morello: drums

allaboutjazz.com:
As the authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Penguin, 1992-2008) observed, pianist Dave Brubeck's Time Out has become so familiar that "no one actually hears what's going on anymore."

The album is one of two masterpieces made in 1959 sharing that fate. The other is trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia). But Brubeck's album has suffered the most. Davis' studied cultivation of his image, along with such spurious qualifications for hipsterdom as his bouts of heroin and cocaine addiction, mean that Kind of Blue's magic still shines through the cloak of over-familiarity.

Time Out, on the other hand, was made by a quartet which included three nerdy looking white guys in college professor spectacles. Plus it spawned an international hit single in "Take Five"/"Blue Rondo A La Turk." With all that going against it, you had—and, perhaps, still have—to be truly hip to recognize the album's perfection.

Despite its eventual commercial success, Time Out was slow off the blocks. Columbia executives thought Brubeck's exploration of unusual time signatures (5/4, 9/8, 6/4, 3/4) would baffle the public and they did little to promote the disc. But the public proved to be thoroughly unbaffled and sales multiplied through word of mouth, fired by the quartet's relentless touring. Finally, a year after Time Out's release, the "Take Five" single was put out and history made.

Columbia then got the group back in the studio in short order to record a follow-up, Time Further Out (1961), another fine album which included the hit "It's a Raggy Waltz."

"Take Five" includes one of the most thrilling drum solos ever recorded, a 2:20 master class in percussive accentuation, colorization and structure. Unlike the rest of Time Out, which was composed by Brubeck, the tune was written by alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. "It was never supposed to be a hit," Desmond said later. .......
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W wielu podsumowaniach jazzowych płyt wszechczasów obok "Kind Of Blue" Milesa Davisa, "A Love Supreme" Johna Coltrane'a, "Köln Concert" Keitha Jarretta zawsze pojawia się własnie ta płyta Dave'a Brubecka "Time Out".
Płyta nagrana została w 1959 roku podczas sesji nagraniowej trwającej z przerwami od 25 czerwca do 18 sierpnia 1959 roku. W studio zebrał się wyborny kwartet w składzie: Dave Brubeck na fortepianie, Paul Desmond na saksofonie altowym i wyśmienita sekcja rytmiczna: Joe Morello za perkusją i Eugene Wright na kontrabasie.

"Time Out" jest jednym z najbardziej innowacyjnych rytmicznie albumów w historii jazzu, Brubeck jako jeden z pierwszych wyszedł poza standardowe metrum 4/4 i 3/4. Często bywa porównywany do innego wielkiego nagrania z 1959 roku, czyli "Kind Of Blue" Milesa Davisa. Z tym, że dyrekcja wydawnictwa Columbia ostatecznie prezekonała się do "Time Out" dopiero po tym, jak wyniki sprzedaży płyty okazały się wielkim sukcesem. Początkowy dystans, powodowany nowatorskim podejściem do warstwy rytmicznej kompozycji Brubecka, szybko stopniał gdy okazało się, że dzięki utworowi "Take Five" Paula Desmonda, jazzowa publika pokochała album.

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allaboutjazz.com:
As the authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (Penguin, 1992-2008) observed, pianist Dave Brubeck's Time Out has become so familiar that "no one actually hears what's going on anymore."

The album is one of two masterpieces made in 1959 sharing that fate. The other is trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia). But Brubeck's album has suffered the most. Davis' studied cultivation of his image, along with such spurious qualifications for hipsterdom as his bouts of heroin and cocaine addiction, mean that Kind of Blue's magic still shines through the cloak of over-familiarity.

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