Album: Time Out
Artist: Dave Brubeck
Release Year: 1959
Hails From: Just outside San Francisco
Tracks:
1. Blue Rondo a la Turk
2. Strange Meadow Lark
3. Take Five
4. Three to Get Ready
5. Kathy's Waltz
6. Everybody's Jumping
7. Pick Up Sticks
My Thoughts:
Listen up kids, I love this album, it is fun to listen to when cleaning on a Sunday afternoon. I love this so much that Blue Rondo a la Turk is my cell phone ringer when its not on vibrate. Take Five is a great song and if you've spent any time in a Starbucks, you've heard it. Also the artwork on the cover of the album is pretty cool. Dave Brubeck is 88 years old and he is still performing to sold out crowds. He is the man.
Reminds me of: Driving to work at Starbucks at 3:30 in the morning and then going on a mad search to find out who the artist was.
Random Facts:
Although the album was intended as an experiment (Columbia president Goddard Lieberson was willing to chance releasing it) and received negative reviews by critics upon its release, it became one of the best-known and biggest-selling jazz albums, reaching number two in the U.S. Billboard "Pop Albums" chart, and produced one single — Paul Desmond's "Take Five" — that reached number five in the Billboard "Adult Contemporary" chart.
In 2005 it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. ~ (wikipedia)
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