16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound) New Releases – Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Relix) New Releases – Andrew Gilbert (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group) New Releases – Mark Holston (Jazziz, Latino) New Releases – Yoshi Kato (San Francisco … Read More
by Ken Waxman, Jazzword “These recently discovered performances find both bandleaders and their quartets at the height of their fame and are distinctive definitions of their individual work..Time OutTakes’ fascination lies in its preservation of an alternate take on history. Accustomed tunes are here, but performed just little differently than the versions entrenched in collective … Read More
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The Kaleidoscope Quintet- Dancing on the Edge by Michael van Gee This CD by the two masterful saxophonists and flautists Joe Lovano (*1952) and Dave Liebman (*1946), which was recorded at a concert on November 13th, 2013, in the well-known Deer Head Inn jazz club in Pennsylvania, can only be described as sensational, as it … Read More
By Allen Michie, The Arts Fuse Time Outtakes is a very good album and a valuable addition to your Brubeck collection. Read more here.
by Delarue, New York Music Daily “What jumps out at you immediately on the new Dave Brubeck Time OutTakes album is how incredibly fresh these songs were when the iconic pianist brought them into the studio in 1959.” Read the full review here.
by Mike Hobart, Financial Times “Time Outtakes, released to mark the centenary of Dave Brubeck’s birth, collects previously unreleased alternate takes and songs to throw new light on this jazz classic.” Read the complete review in the Financial Times here.
By Steve Futterman, The New Yorker A momentous year in jazz, 1959 birthed such iconoclastic masterworks as Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come” and Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue,” but the politely experimental “Time Out,” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was the undeniable hit. Read more here.
By Mike Shanley, Shanley on Music Dave Brubeck’s Time Out wasn’t the first jazz album to break away from 4/4 time, but it was the album that took the farthest away from “standard” swing – without sacrificing the swing in the process. Its centerpiece, “Take Five” became a hit single and, arguably, one of the best … Read More
by Morgan Enos The pianist-composer, who died in 2012 at 91, was one of the most famous jazz musicians who ever walked the planet — and for that fact alone, he was controversial. His 1959 classic Time Out was the first platinum — and then double-platinum — jazz album. The chances are that “Take Five” pops into … Read More
