![]() ![]() As a jazz pianist, Brubeck became a household name in jazz in part due to Time Out's success. "I told Paul to put a melody over (drummer) Joe Morello's beat," Brubeck explained. Paul Desmond, who was Brubeck's alto saxophonist, wrote "Take Five," at Brubeck's urging to try and write a song in quintuple (5/4) time. In Turkey, he observed a group of street musicians performing a traditional Turkish folk song that was played in 9/8 time, a rare meter for Western music. ![]() 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. Brubeck became proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together. Fortunately, Brubeck ignored the conventional wisdom and Time Out became the original classic we know it as today. Some standards and some show tunes were needed in the mix. An entire album of originals? That wouldn't work either, he was told. The record label's sales executives didn't want a painting on the cover when Time Out debuted in 1959 on Columbia Records, Brubeck told an interviewer. This jacket is a beauty! Never has Time Out's colorful iconic cover art looked so vibrant. It's produced for us by Stoughton Printing featuring a printed wrap mounted to a heavyweight chipboard shell, producing an authentic "old school" look and feel. The jacket is also special - very heavy-duty. Sony Music supplied the images for use in our SACD reissue, and gave us persmission to use them in our LP reissue as well. Inside are eight fantastic black and white images shot during the recording session at Columbia's famous 30th Street Studios. Like its 45 RPM sibling, Time Out is presented here packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket. And now, cut at 33 1/3 RPM on 180-gram premium vinyl, pressed at Quality Record Pressings (Acoustic Sounds' own industry-lauded LP manufacturer), Analogue Productions brings you Time Out renewed. Including the monster hit "Take Five," the Brubeck Quartet's Time Out is a jazz and audiophile classic. The piece is famous for its distinctive, catchy saxophone melody, as well as its use of unusual 5/4 time - so distinctive, it's a rare jazz track that became a pop hit. Virtually all serious and even casual music lovers ought to be familiar with, or at least are likely to have heard The Dave Brubeck Quartet, even without realizing it - for the quartet's best-known hit "Take Five" has graced the soundtracks of multiple films, including "Mighty Aphrodite," "Pleasantville" and "Constantine." Having heard many, many Pallas and RTI pressings, the main competition for QRP, I would say that QRP pressings combine the strengths of both its competitors: the very low surface noise and bottom-of-the-groove quiet of Pallas LPs and the sharp delineation of musical detail of RTI." - Sound = 4.5/5 Music = 5/5 - Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat, August 2012 It's a positive sign when the noise floor is defined by the hiss of the master tape, not the quality of the pressing or vinyl, and that's the case here. However, this current pressing is so much better than those that came before it, which were certainly very good, that it's obvious things have improved considerably over the past year. Before Time Out, I would have said that some positive trends were apparent from the earlier LPs I've heard. “I've now heard a number of LPs from Quality Record Pressings (QRP), Chad Kassem's year-and-a-half-old record-pressing plant. ![]() It seems to me that as our gear gets ever more quiet, these QRP LPs continue to wring more musical nuance from the finest recordings." - Music = 5/5 Sound = 5/5 - Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound, January 2013. You'll hear it right from the familiar piano intro to "Blue Rondo a la Turk," where Brubeck's playing seems richer, more lyrical, more rhythmically alive. at least for the foreseeable here and now, Analogue Productions' newly mastered 45 RPM (Brubeck) is the edition to own. "The results speak for themselves: the platters from QRP are in my experience the most consistently flat and quiet being pressed today. ![]()
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