Time Out

only recognized Time Out, but the whole album was great. I don't enjoy all Jazz, but this really speaks to the best of what older jazz groups can do!

It was pretty good, the first track was the only one I didn't enjoy. Good background music. 4/5 stars.

Another watershed jazz album. Brubeck's playing is complex and experiments with time signatures of various more 'exotic' influences. This coupled with Paul Desmond's acrobatic saxophone playing make this album groundbreaking and approachable.

Really enjoyable. Smooth yazz

Loved this, proper foot tapping jazz, and I’m not a jazz lover in the whole. This ones been added to my favourites for those chilled moments

Nice, jazz

Revolutionary and playful

Take Five is obviously a banger but the rest of the album didn't really stick with me. It's very pleasant, and the sort of thing that would sound great in the background of a party. Just cool, jazzy vibes! But I think the key issue here is that I just don't get jazz?? No memorable tunes (other than the aforementioned Take Five). I feel bad rating this so low because apparently Dave Brubeck was a very nice man.

Strange Meadow Lark bangs. Kinda lose interest in the second half of the record. Not bad just not really my thing 6 or 7

This is a classic! I was such a fan as a teenager.

Highly enjoyable listening. Not a jazz fan generally, but this is an album I can see myself putting on again.

Contains some of Brubeck's strongest tracks, but is mired slightly by the homogenous piano interludes.

Never heard of this but 1959? that was a while ago. Trying to guess by the cover... maybe jazz? or "swing"? Ok it's jazz. Bit wacky, bit experimental, it's ok. End thoughts: I pretty much forgot it was going. That isn't exactly the mark of a good album. It didn't shit me, but it was completely forgettable. 2/5.

I had no idea what to expect but definitely found myself loving it. During the opening to the first track I had a hard time believing it's a 50's jazz track as it sounded much more like the opening to a 80's prog rock or progressive metal track. The rest of the album sounded more like I imagined highly technical cool jazz to sound like. But unlike other examples of this style I never felt bored with it. Just really good music to have playing which is both excellent in the background and for the occasional more intense listening during the particularly playful segments. Will save this one to re-listen for sure.

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The definition of jazz sound, the definition of cool jazz, bit restrained, but cool anyway

Ya like jazz?

It's the classic cool jazz album that actually sounds cool and not over complex. And it contains the famous Take Five song. What's not to like?

Interesting, though mostly forgettable. Instrumental Jazz just kind of works like that though. It's pleasant and inoffensive to listen too, but it very rarely will leave me with a lasting imprint after the fact.

Pleasant, and inoffensive jazz.

It felt like an eternal dinner at a 3 Michelin star restaurant.

I listen to jazz while I'm working sometimes. It's the music that I like the most that I can also ignore and focus on work (let's be honest, things like "Revlover" meant a less-than-productive 40ish minutes for me, if I listen while working). I put this on and ignored it. It was pleasant and appealing. I will say that there seems to be more spotlight sharing in this group than other jazz musicians I listen to. Might make me look like a fool but I can't tell you which instrument Dave Brubeck plays after listening to this. That's cool.

I actually really like Jazz. Jazz musicians understand their craft at a level most people will never appreciate. You have to really know music and your instrument in order to step on stage without knowing what you're going to do - if that makes sense. BUT - to me - Jazz shouldn't really be recorded. It's meant to be listened to live. AND, if you're going to record it, it should be a live recording, in my humble opinion. I like "dirty" jazz - I want to hear mistakes and guys talking to each other while they're playing. Dave and the rest of the quartet are truly talented musicians, but this seemed over-produced for a jazz album - and maybe a little self-indulgent (almost half the songs featured only Dave, not the quartet).

Awesome

'Take Five' was played by a friend's group during college, it's nice to hear it again ^^

This was a classic! Very soothing. I enjoyed it.

Solid jazz, really enjoyable.

Nope. Not for me.

I'm not musical enough to recognise experimental time signatures. To me, this sounds like a cool, fun, chilled jazz album, which is the kind of jazz I enjoy. Recorded in 1959, but sounds timeless. It seems like the group achieved exactly what they set out to do. I can't fault it. 4/5.

Ya like Jazz?

Neat stuff. Favorited and will return to for more. Great for either sitting around or working.

8.5/10

Easy five star album.

Something you put on to sound sophisticated at a dinner party until you get asked "isn't this the Monsters, Inc soundtrack?"

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Love this type of music to work to

Ja like Jazz?

Smoked a joint and listened to this on vinyl and reading the jacket notes. Got lost in the music. Take 5 is a masterpiece. Put on Miles in a Silent Way after, I don't listen to my jazz collection enough, but I digress. Time Out is a 5.

Estoy sorprendida que este álbum se hiciera a partir de la improvisación, ya que los artistas tienen mucha química. Además es un genero de música que lo odias o te encanta. Mis canciones favs: - take five -Kathy ´s waltz - Pick up Sticks

Mmm jazz

Very much enjoyed the drum solos and polyrhythms on this.

Take Five is a song that everyone has heard somewhere, probably the most recognisable smooth jazz tune. This is a relaxing album, enjoyed as background music. Not sure how much I like jazz in general but this was a nice listen.

5/4 time

Pretty good if you're in a jazzy mood

Classic, great album

Take Five is a groove that has been stuck in my head off and on for over a decade. This is one of my favorite jazz albums of all time and I love the whole record front to back. It just has a timeless bit of soul to it, and always sounds fresh and new.

Jazz klassiker

Take Five is just so good. Never gets old. The rest also quite nice, like Kathy's Waltz how it combines a straight ahead beat with 3/4 piano.

// Favs: – Score: Decent 3

Time Out is not a record I find engaging enough to listen to on a consistent basis, as I need tight instrumentals, epic vocals or extreme originality to warrant further listening. I do not doubt that this is very well made for a jazz album, therefore I believe a score lower than 3/5 would not be fair.

ur cool!

3.9

Good jazz

It's the YA house open music

Fan-fuckin-tastic. First album on this site that I immediately listened to again. Blue Rhondo and Take Five are of course classics but there is so much incredible music made with incredible writing and incredible musicianship. Love it.

it was alright.

Great Jazz album. Rainy day cafe.

Jazzy. Take 5 is a classic. Good to listen to while working.

Cool jazzy album. Take Five the standout but all tracks pretty nice and chilled

Legendary

Already liked blue rondo a la Turk and Take five. Take five being a favourite of mine. The rest are ok, not as engrossing as miles Davis for example

One song sounded a lot like Jesus Christ Super Star. Not a fan of jazz typically but grew on me some throughout the listen.

Discovered odd time signatures through this. Timeless

AMAZING! Essential relaxing listening.

Indifferent

surprised me

‘Blue Rondo à la Turk’ was fantastic, lively, energetic; it was everything you could have wanted from a jazz song. I actually recognised ‘Take Five’ which I was not expecting!

Knew about half of the songs before. Classic album.

super clean sound. despite the odd time signatures it's very listenable.

5/5

Nice relaxing piano music.

Pleasant. Not blowing my mind. Will listen again.

mmm no es de mi tipo pero lo escuche mientras q dibujaba y me agrado mucho el tipo de ?ambiente? q se creo con esa musica y los dibujitos u.u

Écoute facile, bonne introduction au jazz.

Okay, generally liked this whole jazz album. It was more clearly defined and melodic, very chill. I really like Take Five (although I didn't know the song's name or artist until now)

Good, easy listening stuff. Would think quite radical at the time

Very smooth, and generally fine - a bit wallpapery

Nice fruity plucky show tunes

already heard m8 but still a bop

Fantastic album. Very fun to listen to.

Good elevator music

as a pretty big fan of jazz from that era, i've always found this a little too polished. take 5 is iconic, but beyond that it's boring when stacked up against even just other 1959 release from Coltrane, Mingus, and Miles Davis. not enough improvisation

Decent jazz album for background music.

Chilled ones. Good for WFH but also with a vape

Some classics! I recognized and especially enjoyed both Take Five and Blue Rondo a la Turk

A classic

jazzy

Enjoyed the melodic jazz vibes, not overly distracting or frantic - just pleasant.

i just wish it was longer

I didn’t want to give a jazz album 5, but honestly I liked it end to end.

This is a really famous album because it used unusual time signatures (at the time, pun not intended) for jazz. I don’t bother myself with technical details such as that when it comes to listening to music (and truth be told, my ears don’t know how to even differentiate for something like that), I’m all about how music makes me FEEL, and this didn’t really make me feel any one way or the other. “Take Five” is probably the most recognizable tune on here, I’m sure it’s been featured in oodles of movies and TV shows - I recalled it from the “Rushmore” soundtrack, but your mileage may vary. I didn’t hate this, I didn’t love it, it was almost like white noise in the background for a little over thirty eight minutes, and then it was over with.

Really nice jazz

Simply fabulous.

I've actually been jamming this album past few months. Love a bit of that Rondo

Disco de Jazz muy escuchaba. No se hace bola como otros donde no encuentras la armonía.

Je häufiger sie mal eben durchläuft, desto mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommt diese Scheibe jedes Mal. War sie Sonntags früh eine Art stiller Kompagnon zum Fensterputz so ist sie heut der Regen auf den Glasscheiben. Die neue Story auf einem frischen Blatt Papier. 3.9

Muss bei solchen Sachen, insbesondere wenn sie am Sonntag aufgegeben werden, immer aufpassen, sie nicht einfach als schöne Sonntagsunterhaltungsmusik wegzuhören. Weil: dazu eignen sie sich - so wie auch das hier - ja ganz hervorragend. Im direkten Vergleich mit dem neulich gehörten "Birth of the Cool" von Miles Davis aus demselben Jahr (glaube ich) finde ich das hier entschiedener, mehr bei sich. Bunter auch, vielfarbig gewissermaßen. Nicht so cool, sondern eher ... warm? Und dann noch mit DEM Tophit der Jazzmusik. Also mir gefällts richtig gut, da ist locker ne 3,7 drin.

classic.

Love Dave Brubeck. I throw him on every now and then for cooking or doing work, and this album has some great tracks. This was great background music, actually finished a book while listening.

Great background music. Not my jam, but it's a lot of fun. If I hosted dinner parties, I would be all over this.

Está muy bien. Tranquilo. Música de fondo. O bailar jazz.

Great! A bit repetitive for me but I guess it's because i'm not used to listen to jazz. But it's really really good!

Jazz session.

Track one is really cool.

I feel like a broken record (heh) on these, but I have loved all the instrumental albums not by Miles Davis. I've heard a lot of these before but never as an album. Great stuff.

All (but the 1st song) are great

Classic!!!

Before I give my thoughts I want to honor the fact that jazz music was traditionally a black musical style that some white people liked and became famous with in places that many black musicians were not allowed to go. That being said- I really like this Jazz album- I was very productive listening to it because jazz piano is my favorite.

Loved it

Muy jazz. Bueno, pero puede hacerse monótono a ratos. Incluye la conocida Take Five.

Really enjoyed this

A timeless gem, one of my favorite jazz albums of them all, I'd give it six stars if I could!

Meh

Classic Brubeck, couple of bangers but probably matched my tastes a decade ago more than now. Still a pleasure to listen to.

I actually had this album in high school. It might be white people jazz, but I love it. It's just so pleasant to listen to. Unimposing yet engaging. Great work day album.

me yes

Top quality cool jazz! Fave track - while "Time Out" is a classic, I'm gonna pick "Blue Rondo à la Turk" for the playfulness!

Snazzzyyyy

Great jazz standards.

Fun and jazzy

I love Dave Brubeck. He was one of the first that showed me how important time signatures were and how atypical time could be so intriguing.

Great album, with some monster songs in terms of cultural presence, not the least of which "Take Five." I haven't said this about an album yet, but I actually wished it was longer. The band sounds great and it felt like they were just warming up.

This is real lovely. Take Five was my favorite.

I really liked it. It was quite chill and reminded me, with my little knowledge of jazz, of Coltrane.

sick sleeve

a rhythmic revelation

A bop

Fav: Take Five

I don’t have anything smart to say, for whatever reason I had never really listening to Dave Brubeck before this and I definitely need to spend more time checking his music out cuz this was great.

Do ya like jazz? Do ya like other people knowing you like jazz? Then play Time Out at your nearest social gathering and tell everyone that you enjoy odd time signatures and polyrhythms while you tap your feet to one of the most played jazz tunes ever. You're not normal, you're weird in all the right ways! Lol all joking aside, I fucking love this album, and why shouldn't I? Just like with the Beatles, the reason so many people like the music is because it is genuinely incredible, and Dave Brubeck does it here too. One gripe though - whenever I play this album, I always get a twinge of "maybe I should be playing some jazz by a black artist instead" simply because I've found myself listening to a lot of jazz by white guys. But that doesn't detract from the songs. Unsquare Dance is my favorite here.

Smooth and very relaxing

Pleasant

Great

Classic jazz from one of the greatest!

Actually know a few songs on this album. Might be the first Jazz album I've ever listened to in its entirety. So the rating might reflect that: B-

Love the mood throughout. The time signatures are fun.

I won't even pretend to have enough knowledge of Jazz to give it a proper rating. It's a 3.5 up to 4 for listening purposes, but I know a few of these songs are so iconic I'd imagine this is objectively a 5, but for my personal tastes I can't quite go there. No surprise, but Take Five is my favorite.

First jazz album.. hopefully more in the list

A very pop music record. I can see why folks like my jazz teacher looked down on stuff like Blue Rondo. But if you’re college age cooking dinner for a date, can you do better than putting this on? Probably not.

I just don't love jazz.

This is (probably) the ultimate Cool Jazz record. Something you put on and sip a martini and cook a steak to. You can really hear the West Coast laid back playing on this as opposed to the busy New York playing that was coming out of Blue Note (although this was recorded in NYC). It produced 3 jazz standards just on the first side for goodness sake. Favorite song: Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk Least favorite song: don’t really have one

Classic. Great from the get go. Time signatures keep it interesting

Great jazz album, really upbeat and catchy.

I listen to this frequently, especially when cooking. It's a ground breaking, fun listening album

Couldn't finish it. Wasn't very interested.

Solid jazz album. A classic.

fine and cool

Absolute classic full of ear worms, including the classic Take Five.

Great album! Very playful, and very cool. I love the weird time signatures, but it never makes it hard to listen.

Jazzy and interesting

Too much Jazz. But still good on a music level.

Strange meadow lark = love it

Very good

just a classic jazz album

so smooth, so cool

It was ok in the background but it did not spark joy. Funny time signatures I didn't get what that did

Such amazing jazz

Pretty chill jazz record, got the iconic "Take Five" on it, however that should not discredit other tracks like "Blue Rondo a la Turk" and "Pick Up Sticks"

Don’t really like jazz

Not my thing

Easy listening. Didn't realize I knew this music already.

Jazz

Muito muito interessante. Estudar os ritmos (time signatures) não usuais que usaram. Produção e timbres perfeitos

Duh

Kinda disappointed. Blue Rondo a la Turk and Take Five are catchy but overall I guess I'm not all that into this kind of cool jazz.

Listened to before. Blue Rondo A la Turk and Take Five are great. A good introduction to Jazz.

Smooth, easygoing jazz.

Smooth listen! Very enjoyable at night

I feel like this should have been my introduction to jazz. It was cool, it was funky, and it was easy to listen to.

6/10

honestly the more jazz i listen to the cooler it gets. for a while i was just kinda averse to horns because i didnt like how they sounded but obviously thats not a problem anymore. then for a while after listening to kind of blue i was just like yeah thats pretty good maybe ill get into jazz someday. and i still dont think ive rly taken the plunge but thats fine, not everything has to be this huge-ass binge. maybe one day ill look back and realize oh shit! im a big jazz fan now! and make like fifty lists thatre just like The Best Jazz Albums Of 2034. Greatest Saxophonists Of The 2020s? Who Said Jazz Is Dead!?!?!?!? this album isnt my fav thing ever but its pretty consistent. i paid a little more attention this time around and im more impressed but not more of a fan necessarily, its cool but probably half of this album isn't mindblowing or anything. the other half also isnt mindblowing but its better. kathys waltz and everybodys jumpin are lots of fun, that one build-up in the second half of pick up sticks is euphoric, take five is mysterious and catchy. the pure drum+piano part is a liiittle long for me since im not big on drum solos but the horn part (idk what type of horn it is :() is perfect!!

So far the best album I’ve heard so far

Quite liked this. Relaxing