Ballads
One of 11 evocative
releases in the new Music For You series.
What does your world
sound like?
Listen.
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The level of success Dave Brubeck
attained with his album Time Out was unprecedented in jazz at the
time of its release in 1959.
Over the decades, for all the subsequent upheavals in
jazz, its popularity has never waned—perhaps because it was such
an upheaval for its challenging
use of unusual meters. And because Paul Desmond's delicate yet insistent
alto saxophone sound was, and remains, so haunting. "Take
Five" may be the single most widely recognizable piece jazz has
produced.
But
"Take
Five" is so much the work of Brubeck, Desmond, Gene Wright, and
Joe Morello that it has never been covered much by other jazz artists.
The two most covered, and most exquisite, Brubeck pieces remain "In
Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke," both of whose beauty was appreciated
very early by Miles Davis.
