Time Out is a 1959 album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, based upon the use of time signatures that were unusual for jazz (mainly waltz or double-waltz time, but also 9/8, and most famously 5/4). 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 Read Full BioTime Out is a 1959 album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, based upon the use of time signatures that were unusual for jazz (mainly waltz or double-waltz time, but also 9/8, and most famously 5/4).
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.
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.
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Blue Rondo a La Turk
The Dave Brubeck Quartet Lyrics
Blue Rondo A La Turk (Round, Round, Round)
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a harmony
Round, round, round a melody,
Harmony, melody-steadily
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a memory
Round, round, round a melody,
Memory, melody, merrily.
There's a melody I used to play
Counterpoint every yesterday.
Swiftly up and down I hasten and
Chasten my fingers and heart to play.
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a memory
Round, round, round a melody
Memory, harmony-steadily
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a mystery
Round, round, round a melody,
Mystery, mirror of history.
Taking over all my reveries
Hearing passions in the melodies
Play it up and down so wearily
Stumbling, fumbling, tumbling.
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a harmony
Round, round, round a melody
Harmony, melody, memory
Round, round town I follow you.
Round, round town I'm calling you.
Round, round town I hasten to do
All the chasing you want me to.
Open up an opportunity,
For I know that you will be
Truly happy and content with me.
Measure me, treasure me, pleasure me.
Open up an opportunity.
Open up an offer. You will be
Truly happy and content with me.
Measure me, treasure me, pleasure me.
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a you and me.
Round, round, round a melody
You and me, melody and harmony.
Round, round, round a melody
Round, round, round a harmony
Round, round, round a melody,
Harmony, mystery-you and me.
Don't you see
That we were meant to be,
One and the same.
Melody, married to harmony,
One and the same.
Change the score
We will be ever more
One and the same.
Melody, married to harmony
One and the same.
Here it comes, our symphony,
Measure by measure.
A melody and harmony,
You and me in harmony.
You and me so happy
Were making it
Shaking the blues ain't bothering me.
Here it comes, our symphony,
Measure by measure,
A pleasure.
A melody and harmony,
You and me in harmony
You and me so happy
We found a new rondo,
To end the blue rondo today.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Dave Brubeck
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Larry Gott
I was seventeen when this was released. It was fresh and new. I was pretty fresh and new then, myself. Now I'm old and slow, but I still get a charge from this album and especially Blue Rondo à la Turk. This stuff, unlike people, just never gets old.
Noah Martindale
Im actually pretty young id say for listening to this. Im 16 and I have a large interest in the more classic jazz pieces and groups and I love it all so much and I agree it is timeless
patrick cordoliani
all the best, I share what you feel,wouls we be Twinns ? 😀
Nicholas Gray
@Sojouner Our minds, spirits, souls are there to keep learning. Yeah, bodies age and break down, but minds, spirits, souls can keep learning. I don't know what you are learning with repeated listenings to Blue Rondo a la Turk, or Brandenburg No. 2, or Ives Holiday Symphony, or Coltrane's My Favorite Things, I just know that we are. So keep listening.
Lydia Lostaunau
Larry, my dad bought me this album for my high school graduation in 1961. It is as exciting now as it was then
Egmont Labadie
@Metro I Cover art is by Neil S. Fujita
Charles Pruett
My parents played the crap out of this when I was a little kid. Even now, decades later, I can hum practically every riff, every part! True jazz
Jaime Reyes
@sparkdog 494 thats funny 😂 ❤
pavjazzy
@Christopher Burke Schoenberg or Scriabin might be more difficult to hum along to🤣
pavjazzy
I fell in love with the song years ago! I have been playing it ever since. My kids grew up hearing me practice it🤣