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Episode 1.
The Album That Almost Wasn’t.
The Story of Dave Brubeck’s Time Out
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Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Vinyl Time Out Dave Brubeck Quartet.

This episode is about the recording of this landmark jazz album and the struggles that almost derailed it. The episode goes back to the authors first hearing the Time Out album just a few years after its release.  

Links for this episode

Time Out on Amazon

Other music referred to in the episode includes:

Everybody Tells Me - The Rave-ons

Liar Liar - The Castaways

I've Had It - The Belltones

The Rite of Spring Stravinsky - Goossen

Books

Dave Brubeck's Time Out (Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz) by Stephen A. Crist

Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time by Philip Clark 

Photos

The Castaways went to the same high school as the author. They were one of many local bands in the area that played teen dances on a regular basis. They had a hit record with Liar Liar and appeared on national TV and a movie.

 

 

 

Magoo's Pizza located on Lake and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis. Jazz trio led by Herb Schoenbom played most weekends to a packed house.

Attribution: "Family photos of Infrogmation of New Orleans"

 

Dave Brubeck in India. He was fascinated by world music on his tour of Eurasia not long before the recording session for Time Out

 


Attribution: The Music Aficionado.blog

 

 

Joe Morello, drummer for the Dave Brubeck Quartet was honored with many awards and appeared in ads for Ludwig Drums. The song Take Five was designed to showcase his drum soloing.

The thing about a great work of art, a true masterpiece, be it music, visual art or literature is that the person or the people who created it generally had no idea that it would take on a life of its own. You may get a sense that yes things are going OK. You may even think this is the best thing you have ever done, but you have been wrong before. And even if you do have faith there are the gatekeepers, the record producers, the gallery owners, the book publishers, they could be absolutely certain that this is going nowhere.

In many ways that was the case of the first Jazz album to sell a million copies. It went double platinum, selling over 2 million copies. It spun off a single that was the first jazz single to hit a million copies.

Of course I am referring to the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out and song Take Five. The Album That Almost Wasn’t.


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