Playing one of my all time favorites this morning while cooking something to take to my sister-inlaws for breakfast. The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out. I never get tired of listening to this one, absolutely love this album.
Merry Christmas all, may you be able to spend the holidays surrounded by the ones you love and good music.
Tonight I wanted something relaxing, my wife and I just got back from the gym and I haven’t posted anything in a couple days. This album was one of the first Brubecks I picked up, my copy is the Stereo version, on Columbia, it’s an original 6 Eye red label. Released in 1958 it’s no wonder to me that my jacket is pretty trashed, but with the exception of a few scratches, sounds outstanding.
This is very well recorded, it’s also a live performance, you can hear whistles and cheers from the audience during Watusi Drums. It’s really something, the drums are fantastic, at one point of course I don’t know who but I heard someone smack something together that sounded a lot like another set of drum sticks, possibly someone moving a piece of equipment during the drum solo, the amount of detail captured on vinyl just amazes me.
My analogue system is pretty dialed in right now, I switch back and forth between my Nagaoka MP-100 and my Audio Technica AT120E, trying to find the differences and similarities, both are very detailed carts, tonight I’m running the AT and I’m quite pleased with what I’m hearing.
I really love Dave’s playing, this is such a great album. Side one starts with Wonderful Copenhagen which I completely enjoy. Paul Desmond leads off with his sax on this track. Dave finishes the track off and if you listen very closely you can hear him getting into it as he wraps up the last part with his own vocalized “do do doo dow” I had to play it back once again to make sure what I’d heard was really him lol.
Yeah, this one will probably remain one of my favorites for a long long time. Up beat, and yet relaxed all at the same time, very good jazz and well recorded to boot, if you’re a Brubeck fan and haven’t heard this one, you need to go to Amazon and listen to some clips, I still don’t have an easy way to record this stuff yet but I’m getting there!
Looks like I have a kindred spirit out there, I was sitting here after dinner spinning some vinyl looking over the blog and noticed…I have a follower! Who’d have thunk it!? The cool thing about it, I was listening to a rather fantastic copy of Jazz at Oberlin and Dave was playing the piano solo and I was simply enjoying the music. Doesn’t get much better than that does it?
I have linked the cover shots to my Flickr account should you wish to read the jacket notes. This is one of my favorite Brubecks, I have quite a few of them, this one is in very nearly mint condition and sounds amazing. One of these days when I get my laptop sorted out to convert my LP’s to MP3, I’ll have to put up some of my favorite tracks. For now, I’m going to flip the record ;)
