Time Out

Really enjoyed this. Somewhat difficult to focus on listening to instrumental jazz exclusively, but I'm glad I struggled through.

recentemente eu venho ouvindo muito kind of blue, e quando eu recebi esse album fiquei bem animado por saber que se tratava de jazz, mas não esperava isso. o album é muito mais bebop do que o tipo de jazz que venho gostando, mas em diversos momentos, sobretudo na primeira faixa, ele evolui pra algo que no minimo soa modal. eu sei que é errado compara-lo ao kind of blue porque se tratam de albums completamente diferentes, mas as melodias são mais bonitas, principalmente a do piano. ouvi ele 2 vezes apenas e não me afeiçoei tanto ainda a maioria das faixas, mas tenho certeza que o album vai crescer ainda mais em mim, mesmo ja sendo um 5 estrelas.

gostei muito??

A true classic.

An absolute mint classic! Loved every moment of every track. Should be required listening in schools.

i had a friend in college who had this on vinyl so I've heard it a lot. It was a treat to get to re-listen to it in this context

Take 5 is where it's at.

Perfect

Good

Super fedt jazz album. Utrolig mange numre man kender fra andre medier.

Honestly incredible. I probably feel the way Dave did when he first heard the music in Turkey.

Incredible. I wish I could play jazz like these guys. They didn't miss a beat with this album.

I thought it was it was good

such a timeless jazz album, every song hits

Classic, perfect jazz. Every track was great.

This is a real masterpiece. Incredibly creative compositions that stand the test of time.

Extremely listenable, ear wormy jazz.

this album is amazing, and take five is the best track on it.

TODO.

It’s brilliant, but that’s no real surprise.

Jazz Gold.

Brilliant!! Dave Brubeck is such a classic. The interplay between the woodwinds, the piano, and the drums weave so elegantly together, along with the subtle imagry. It's a delight to listen to!

Amazing

This was the recommendation on my birthday. I've listened to this several times before, and it still doesn't disappoint.

So smooth. So cool. The changes in energy were interesting. Could be for easy listening or to dive deep into. This is a great album for learning to appreciate jazz. Amazing improvisation within the structure. I’ll have to invent a time machine to go to my first swanky 60s cocktail party to hear this album out in the wild.

I feel as though I've heard all of this before, either in passing or from other music that has probably been inspired by it. Thoroughly enjoyable, marked by a calmer tone than the bop I'm familiar with and at times, more akin to classical music. They did things differently on the West Coast I suppose or it's just a product of its time. This is a very calculated yet fun record which feels very seemless, especially considering the varies time changes. As a drummer I would love to try playing along. I would recommend listening with headphones and no distractions, while paying attention to how each instrument compliments the other. The recording quality is also impressive.

THIS ALBUM DON'T WAIT Wow great transition to second track and what a track I mean, a pretty perfect 38 minutes

Fantastic.

Cool jazz at its most charming. One of best ways to be happy for almost 40 minutes

Funky time signatures. Had to go back and listen to it later that day

Just the day before that album appeared on 1001 albums, I decided to listen to an album just because of one song that was on my favourites list for a long, long time. That song's name is "Take Five", and the album's "Time Out". And suddenly, the next day the album shows up in here! I've always thought stories like this happen only in fiction novels.

Wow, that was great. I knew "Take Five" before but whole album is great masterpiece of harmony.

Very fun jazz album. Did not listen to live versions, but the studio versions are a hoot and a half

All songs I already knew and liked, but I had no idea this was all from one album. All on one album! All this quality. Wow.

Not a miss here

As someone who’s given 5’s to most jazz albums I’ve come across, I obviously have to bestow that rating onto this. It just sounds so natural, despite how it experiments with time signatures when most jazz songs were in 4/4, but it sounds just as good as the other albums of its time. Also, for all the people saying they kind of feel bad for not listening to a black artist, the bassist for the quartet was black and Brubeck refused to play without him. So that makes not one bad thing about this album (other than nitpicks).

Just timeless. A special record that is always a pleasure to listen to.

choice of rhythm was inspired by the Turkish aksak time signatures = suleiman the GREAT beats to study to. strongest country in world KOSOVO IS OURS!.. albumi chilling and wibing onhan sen viiden otto.. otto hurja.. mutta.. Noh ei ole kuahian hurjaa.. "klassikko" kaveri laitaappi nelosta meikö heittää vitose .. blue rondo a la turk

Best cool jazz album ever? Maybe!

I'll never not recommend this album to someone. This is likely the perfect companion album to Kind of Blue if you're just starting to get into jazz. It's easily accessible, catchy, but also features some complex rhythms and insane musicianship throughout. Take Five has probably the most badass saxophone melody of all time and a killer drum solo to boot.

The world would be an immensely better place if sending children to “Time Out” meant sitting them down with this record.

Take Five was what got me interested in Jazz. It was a soundtrack for a short film I saw in High School Algebra class featuring dancing triangles.

Ahead of its time? A timeless classic? "Time Out" is the record that initiated my appreciation for jazz. It's a bona fide 5/5.

TURKMAN BASELINE erdogan konsanaan.. Solmussa 9/8 base russia and usa.. shaking head.. What is happening solmuun laittana.. Seuraava biisi.. hyvä.myös.. albumi chilling and wibing onhan sen viiden otto.. otto hurja.. mutta.. Noh ei ole kuahian hurjaa.. "klassikko" kaveri laitaappi nelosta meikö heittää vitose ..

Love

5 stars, lovely

Amazing when playing poker against barely dressed PNGs.

This was delightful!

fuck yeah there are like 8 fuckin bangers on this

A classic. I love it

great album one of the best jazz albums i’ve heard

Wonderfully smooth, chill jazz. Incredible music for when you want to relax.

Brubeck’s time signature project - very successful. Jazz for people that like jazz and enough creativity to pull in casual jazz fans. Absolutely great jams and challenging music. Love it.

this album is one of the ones that inspired me to get back into playing sax. its an all time classic.

Certified banger.

Probably alot more going on than I can appreciate (such as the unusual time signatures). Sounds more modern than I would've expected for a 50s album and overall amazing.

Fantastic slice of cool jazz, up there with the best jazz albums of all time.

Own on Vinyl

For any jazz fan it's a masterpiece. No "Take Five" jokes here. Brubeck's piano alone is worth the rating, plus you get odd time signatures, Desmond's alto, and the precise mix of it all.

He’s an artist, a pioneer

I really really liked this record. It was just such a great way to start my Monday morning and my week as a whole. I will certainly be revisiting this one. My favourite tracks were "Take Five" (of course), "Kathy's Waltz", Everybody's Jumpin'", and "pick Up Sticks". Personal Enjoyment - 9 Songwriting - 9 Originality - 8 Production Value - 10 Artwork - 10 Overall - 9.0

As a teenager, I learned so much about time signatures and good drumming from this album.

Love Take five! Can put this on in the background for easy listening.

This one is one of my top Jazz albums. It's so accessible and the arrangement is spectacular. If someone would ask for a recommendation for a jazz album this is the one I would recommend.

jazzy

Truly a timeless classic. It works wonders as an introduction to jazz.

A landmark jazz album, many a person has found this to be a key in their jazz appreciation.

I'd rate this higher if I could.

Sooooooo beautiful

The number 1 album to get into jazz. The compositions here are stellar and tremendously well crafted. "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" are the real highlights here, but that doesn't take away from the richness and qualities of all the other compositions. Perfect album. 10/10

good stuff

Soothing and lovely.

5 stars

Even if you haven't listened to or understand Jazz, Time Out is a good starting out point. The songs sound familiar and you swear you've heard them before and you definitely know, Take 5, which has to be the most recognizable jazz song ever. Buy the album on vinyl (not CD!) and make sure to prop up the album jacket near your stereo system to provide you with enough Jazz cred to be cool. Really though, this is essential listening!

great album, what got me into jazz in the first place. Brubeck is a masterclass on the piano, the same can be said for the rest of the band. They are a well oiled machine that will take you away to a wonderful place.

Enough said.

Tímalaus klassík og frábær.

Love this album. Perfect vibe.

Amazing jazz album.

Wat een heerlijke start :) Take Five: maar natuurlijk! <3 Kathy’s Waltz: nog een bekende

Jó

It's not often that I choose to listen to the day's album over and over, but this was one of those. It's pure magic from beginning to end. I love that a musical experiment turned into something both joyfully listenable and engaging.

This was wonderful! Although being familiar with Take Five, it never occurred to me to investigate The Dave Brubeck Quartet any further. Well, in retrospect, that was kind of dumb of me. Love these time signatures!

I love this. Sophisticated and very very cool.

I put on the Apple Music version of this on the headphones and was startled because the sound quality was so good! I had not expected that from an album released in 1959. I also instantly recognized much of the opening track “Blue Rondo À la Turk” even though I would never have known I knew the song from the name. “Take Five” was also instantly recognizable to me… Time Out had me fully engaged from the opening notes. Jazz is no longer a curiosity that I appreciate at arm’s length different that other genres. This project has made me realize that there is a lot of jazz that needs to be in my regular rotation, and this album is up there with the top of that list.

Absolutely classic album. Everyone should have this in their collection. Fantastic from start to end.

Great album, a lot of variety and just enjoyable, reasonably complex music. Just the way I like it!

Genius

Incredible

∞/5 I LOST OMG ICH LIEBE ES JEDES LIED IST IN EINER ANDEREN TAKTART OHHHHHH AHHHHH JAAAAA SO ZIEMLICH DAS EINZIGE WAS ICH AN JAZZ HÖRE HABE ES AUF PLATTE (VON SO EINEM WEIRDO BEKOMMEN(adrian)) WOOOHOOOOO

Great, classic jazz

Vibes

Vrijdagochtend het is mistig buiten. Ik zit alleen op kantoor met een koffietje. Dit is prachtig

One of the best jazz albums of all time.

The quartet is in perfect synch. A classic album.

I know nothing of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, but I'm expecting something jazzy. I don't love the album art. The first piece, Blue Rondo a la Turk, sounds very very familiar. Why? No idea where I would have heard it before but I like it a lot. The we settle into a great chill vibe with Strange Meadow Lark. Take Five is also super familiar. Go figure. Apparently I am a Dave Brubeck fan. This whole album is aces.

no notes

Album #35 and the first that I don't need to listen to in order to review it. Of course, I'm listening through it again as I write this because it's that good. Time Out is an all-time classic jazz album. I do enjoy jazz, but I'm not one of those fans who knows everything there is about musicians and their instruments and time signatures and movements and all that jazz. This is an album I can put on almost anytime. Purely enjoyable from start to finish with just brilliant musicianship throughout. The fact that Brubeck did do challenging things with time signatures does make me appreciate it more even if I don't actually understand what's happening. Time Out is 40 minutes of jazz bliss.

Already a favorite of mine prior to listening to it for this list. Bonus that the album artwork mirrors my mental image of what I love about this album's tone and shape.

What can you say about this that hasn't already been said? Really enjoyable.

I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 90's age 4-14. At a very young age I got to meet Mr. Rogers on set. All of this reminds me deeply of all the backing music that they used on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It makes me think about watching crayons being made and watching the trolley go by and a bunch of other little fragments of memory floating in my brain from a.... a time that had its merit. I can't deny that this is myopic and simplistic in the grand scheme of things, but it's too damn beautiful. It's a base we should all go back to build from.

Perfect

Very wonderful and sophisticated. Turns out to be a great album to cook dinner to also. The weird time signatures and the occasional general disregard for norms and rules of music was fun to listen to, if a bit confusing for my musically untrained self. Additionally, Take Five is one of those absolute classics that just always sounds so fresh and cool. Favourite: Take Five

Good classic jazz album for relaxing

Delightful, I love me some instrumental jazz. 5.

Classic cool jazz - always a great listen. Super bouncy and contains some of the best Brubek singles.

Classic, easy to listen to, relaxing, jazz music. Love this album. I've heard the song "Take Five" before and it's the best one of the album.

Exemplary Jazz album.

Love this album

imho take five is the best jazz song ever made

A classic.. I’ll have to go back to appreciate it fully.

Not sure what I can say about this album that hasn't already been said. It's an absolute classic and has been played in my house for as long as I can remember, even the cover art sticks out in my earliest memories of music. For sure one of the best Jazz albums of all time!

The jazziest jazz, first song kinda sounds like ffvii took inspiration.

Gros classique de jazz. plein de traditionnel que j'ai appris leurs noms

Really loved this one. Beautiful to listen to while cooking. I was in the zone!

One of the first jazz records I purchased. I was asking my piano teacher about odd time signatures (specifically Genesis Firth of Fifth) and he suggested I listen to Take Five. I never understood the strong push back from some purists to this one. It not only has the innovative time signatures. The playing is superb and the songs are creative. Pity there are not additional stars.

did not listen

This has been great for 50 years.My wilsons really bring this out.

Classic jazz. 5/4 song is incredible

Lovely jazz. Take Five is extremely famous. It's perfect for a party.

10/10 This might just be the best jazz album I’ve ever heard Dave Brubeck really did a lot for jazz and I love hearing albums like this where he can casually show off how much of a genius he is

Solid music and well-played.

Many classics and some unusual time signatures, mmmmmmm nice 👉

6 stars out of 5

One of my favorite go-to jazz albums with the most recognizable jazz tune of all-time. This is cool cat jazz. Smooth & hip. Excellent album.

Classic album. Great exploration of time signatures in jazz.

Loved

Great performances by four talented musicians of unique and well-written jazz compositions… hits a lot of spots for me

Jazzy peppy joy. The pinnacle of what a jazz album could be.

Classic alert! I used to love playing the piano parts of this as a kid. I always enjoy some unusual time signatures, and they work so well here

Lovely. Just lovely.

Fantastic. Familiar and new all at the same time.

If you look in the dictionary for the definition of "cool", it will say "Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet" 😎

gg

a jazz adventure you can call your own

5.0 + Among my top 10 favorite jazz albums and one of my few “anytime” records.

Chill music that makes you relax and enjoy your day and work. A classic

iconic odd-meter cool jazz. gateway Eames chair lounge lounge music. a timeless album (pun intended)

Great jazz album.

I know many of my favorite albums won't make it on this list and that's fine. Art is subjective so I can see how British well to do's may not think a lot of American bands/people that I like are worthy of this list. But this album...this album was one I knew would show up from the very beginning. One of my favorite jazz albums of all time. I still remember purchasing this cd at Hastings back in Greeley during college and just jamming to Take Five, Blue Rondo, and all the rest as I cruised around campus. This is a fantastic jazz album that has moments of calm and relaxation and moments of frenetic anxiety. All the best parts of what a jazz album should be. I even used Take Five as my alarm during those years. What a perfect kick off to the week.

vvvvvv good

‘Take five’ is a very enjoyable listen Great jazz album cover to cover

Brilliant album. One of the albums I listen to regularly.

Take Five stars as my vote

What can you say about one of the greatest Jazz albums of all time? Blue Rondo is a personal favorite ever since I played it in high school Jazz band.

Always amazing

Honestly one of my favorite jazz albums/groups. Take five would be overrated if it weren't so good. Paul Desmond really gets to shine without over shadowing anyone else. Also I'm just a sucker for anything outside of 4/4 and 3/4

Smmmmmooooothhhh jazz. Great stuff, imagine being a dark smoke hazed lounge bobbing my head to this.

Masterpiece

Ahhh, un classique du jazz avec probablement la chanson en 5 la plus connue au monde. Je reviens souvent à cet album.

Loved it!

What I wanted to listen to today anyway. I love this record and have listed to it a thousand times. Fun, easy, interesting, jazz with a little swing to it.

Blue Rondo A La Turk is such a fun time piece. This is the home of the complete door busting hit Take Five. Damn this album is good.

Vinyle

ma baš volin ovaj jazz, super su mi! podsjeća me na vrimena iz glazbene pa postanen nostalgicna slusajuci 💛

Brilliant as it ever was.

This is a really great album! And it's a great introduction to jazz if you're new to it. both experimenting with time signatures while keeping the easy listening Cool Jazz vibe. A really Iconic Jazz album

Jazz perfection

honey, that's a great f'ing album.

It had my at 9/8 timing. Such an interesting album with other cool time signatures too. The arrangements and are great and I can see it being one of those ones I keep coming back to and discovering new little intricacies.

Excellent to focus on something important to do, besides creating a good ambiance at work.

This album is a trip. Perfect for concentration and studying.

One of my favourite. This album really introduced me to the wonders of jazz.

Exceptional collection of jazz standards.

It's a total jazz staple, with one of the best, most iconic jazz songs of all time leading the way.

Moody Jazz

It was delightful. The technical skill and playful attitude were brilliant.

Still an amazing and influential work. Joe Morello is brilliant on Take 5.

I've had this album for a while and I really enjoy it. Definitely a jazz staple. Everyone knows the one song, but I realized I knew at least one other song, thanks to ELP. At first the songs feel a little... clinical, but once I got into it it was great. Probably Blue Rondo is my favorite of the whole 7. Really it's hard to believe that the band can have such different moods, but they really do get there. A definite must for any jazz fan.

One of my all-time favorite albums.

masterpiece

This is the right kind of jazz, could listen to this album on repeat for days.

Being recommended this album is one of the reasons I'm already a fan of 1001albumsgenerator...love how this album switched up my day

A Take Five-nál hangulatosabb szám kevés létezik a világon. Hibátlan album.

I've heard people refer to this as the jazz album for people that hate jazz. My dad bought me this "white guys play jazz" album when I was in high school and I wore this thing out. For the record, I'm white, and I'd like to think I like jazz, but in reality... notsomuch. Anyway, Time Out has been a guilty pleasure of mine in the past. Though, I feel less guilty about it as time has moved on. (To put this in perspective, It's not like Counting Crows-guilty pleasure which is now just an embarrassment). Evidently, this is a quintessential 'Cool Jazz' album. [side note] One of my favorite t-shirts I had when I was a kid had an illustration of a Saxophone with music notes flying out of it and a headline that read "Smooth Jazz Blows" DB is pretty amazing, when I hear this album, I imagine the guys at Doyle Dane Bernbach and George Nelson sitting around smoking and drinking Martinis joking around laughing and getting ready to watch Playboy's Penthouse, which at that time was pretty cool, but by today's standards, almost cringeworthy. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel did a great job of recreating a similar scene in an episode, "Comedy vs. Cabbage," I think. Regardless of the associations, the music is still great.

Never heard of this band before but I felt I listened to the first track, Blue Rando a la Turk, in a film. After a Google search, it appears that this song has been included in many films' soundtrack - including, Wedding Crashers and Next Stop Greenwich Village.

I have known "time out" my whole life, but the first track, "Blue Rondo à la Turk" was amazing! thankful to finally hear the full album.

Take Five was definitely great (the seemingly most popular) Katherine told me it's in 9/8, which, means nothing to me other than it must be complex. However, I think my favourite song by far was Pick Up Sticks. I found myself stopping what I was doing to just listen which is my favourite moment when listening to music. When it transcends other activities.

Que finura, no se salen del manual ni nada, pero no hace falta.

A 5 for Take Five.

Oh this is a sneaky one. I listened to this and immediately thought it was gonna be boring so it faded into the background, and then as I listened it crept to the forefront. Incredible storytelling here.

Haven't had time to listen to this today, but my Dad introduced me to it as a kid. He loved Take Five. It's brilliant, it uses complicated time signatures but makes them poppy. Genius.

Odd to find a Jazz song that I recognize and know that name of but a pleasant surprise. A nice listen throughout and speaks to a more impactful song with Take Five being the most successful album of all time

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!

Revolutionary and playful

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

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

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

Awesome

Ya like Jazz?

Easy five star album.

VALIDÉ

Ja like Jazz?

Mmm jazz

Pretty good if you're in a jazzy mood

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

ur cool!

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.

Great Jazz album. Rainy day cafe.

Legendary

AMAZING! Essential relaxing listening.

surprised me

5/5

A classic

i just wish it was longer

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

Really nice jazz

Simply fabulous.

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

classic.

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

Classic!!!

Loved it

Really enjoyed this

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

Snazzzyyyy

Great jazz standards.

This is real lovely. Take Five was my favorite.

a rhythmic revelation

Great

Classic jazz from one of the greatest!

Love the mood throughout. The time signatures are fun.

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

Strange meadow lark = love it

so smooth, so cool

Such amazing jazz

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

Duh

Smooth, easygoing jazz.

So far the best album I’ve heard so far

3,6 Highlights: Blue Rondo À La Turk, Take Five

What can you say but a very innovative classic

It's impossible to have a bad time listening to this album. Dave Brubeck and his band's take on cool jazz is laid back and sunny, perfect music for taking a walk on a warm summer day. What really makes it stick, though, is that it works both as background music and an active listening experience. The band experiments with different time signatures and rhythms to create a loose, freewheeling feel that perfectly compliments the bright tone of the instruments. There's plenty of space for great piano and saxophone solos, which draw your attention without being too much of a distraction. If you're looking to get into jazz, this is a great starting point: complex but accessible.

I'm sure there's a lot of depth behind this, but even without understanding music theory, it was an enjoyable listen.

grosse decouverte j'ai passé un bon moment

Loved it, jazz dat ik aankan

jazz is so so good. has anyone else realized this yet?

Take Five is obviously a classic, and while not quite everything else lands, the off-kilter rhythms were ahead of their time in more ways than one.

As familiar as this was, it was a delight.

Is this the least challenging jazz record ever or what? I enjoyed it and I'm pretty lowbrow.

Good vibe, some great compositions and tracks. We hummed a lot of these at you for a couple days.

It's 50s/60s jazz! Jazzy like yuhh. Not for too casual of listening but I enjoyed it on this morning ride. Light 7.

Soothing familiar sounds. Would imagine it was quite out there when it was released. Probably feels familiar because of its influence on music that followed. Feels more structured than most jazz I've listened to. 4/5

Just delightful. I listened to this as I put Goldie down to bed last night and then continued it as I made breakfast. The piano melodies keep this grounded and perfect, but then journey's and jams are what surprised. They take the songs weird places and bring them back full circle. Its fantastic.

man i love dave brubeck

8/10

I actually quite enjoyed this. I've seen the album cover bandied about a lot, and am aware of the artist through this coming up in conversation regularly as being amongst the most well-regarded jazz albums. Really appreciated the odd-metered nature of it, which constantly leaves you second guessing from passage to passage within tracks, however the melodies remain distinctively catchy and hummable despite the underlying complexities to the arrangements. Bright, breezy stuff which engaged my brain, although perhaps not quite my soul or emotional core in the way that some jazz albums are capable of for me, as it did feel somewhat clinical and inch-perfect rehearsed.

Mycket behagligt

Pluspoäng för original tunez

MORE JAZZ WHAT kathys waltz and blue rondo a la turk were my favorites 😛😛 pretty peak album i listened to it whilst marking up pamphlets for the library

Smooth and cool groove with dynamic performances. What I've come to enjoy most about jazz ensembles is how the players settle in to their spots, make the listener comfortable, then occasionally go off on tangents with cool riffs while never leaving that space where both players and listener somehow all agreed is the right vibe for the moment. Maybe it's just me getting old, but jazz has become more than just the background music played in a hotel lounge . Genuinely interesting and enjoyable.

The piano in this album is very laid back and light hearted, it does a great job of capturing a calm mood and feeling.

Great record.

Not a jazz expert, but this sounds like good jazz. Favourite track: Take Five

complex jazz made accessible

In “New Frontier,” Donald Fagan sang “I hear you’re mad about Brubeck” and it’s easy to understand.

So, when I was about 30 years old I moved to a new city and I needed a job badly. I ended up working at this sandwich shop that was attached to sort-of-a cultural center. It was really slow most of the time and there were just three people working: me (the cashier), this guy Sasha (the manager), and a cook whose name I don't recall. The cook pretty much minded his own business. But I had to stand around awkwardly with Sasha for hours on end. He was a nice dude; nevertheless, we ran out of stuff to talk about pretty early on in our relationship. There were long periods of silence and this was before the smart phone era, so we'd often just be staring out the window. No one walking by. Not many cars. Anyway, one day we are standing there. I was on the right by the register and he was on the left by the display case. The cook worked behind the same counter, but with his back to us, facing his station. So one day we're standing there and Take Five comes on over the sound system. There is no other noise in the place except maybe the air conditioner. Just dead. The song goes on for like 4 and a half minutes and, you know, there's this kind of lowkey drum workout with the endless piano vamp, etc. Then the hook finally comes back in, right? Well, Sasha and I both start whistling the the tune at the exact same time (you know the part, ba DA da da bada bada ba DA da da, bada bada ba DA da da...) and then we both stopped, again, at the same time. The moment hung in the air for a long while, slowly fading away, and then we went back to staring out the window. None of us ever spoke of this moment again.

muy bonito, muy mítico para preparar desayuno

Whenever I listen to jazz especially the standouts of the mid to late 20th century it always feels so fresh and ahead of its time and this is especially felt on Time out. From beginning to end this album absorbs you into its world until eventually spitting you back out on the final track. So many great moments on this record and definitely one I’ll keep playing for years to come. Fav tracks: blue rondo à la Turk, take five, Kathy’s waltz, and everybody’s jumping

I am not super well-versed in jazz, so I did not enjoy the technical beauty of this album as much as other people would.

Some of us adults need it too, shit.

Really solid start to finish.

Not a jazz fan But I guess this is a well executed record

A very classic jazz album. “Take Five” is the stand out track. The rest of the tunes are… *turns to camera* …“Nice!”

Classic

One of the most accessible jazz albums of all time (even with odd time signatures). Good, but not great. A bit pedestrian and uninspiring.

I think just maybe I might be starting to like jazz - so thank you 1001albumsgenerator.com

Very good jazz record.

Resisting the urge for an instant 5, I started to analyze what's really being performed. I mean, these are classic examples in COOL jazz, of course this feels like a cigarette in the 50s with a cocktail to pair, right from track one. 60+ years later and this is what your typical nightclub jazz ensemble strive for, this is still the bar to meet. It's talented, it's graceful, it's an easy listen without insulting the people who really know what's going on. And you know, the whole ensemble is great, Brubeck is amazing, the bass is dramatic, the drums are crisp, but the magic is Paul Desmond on the sax a good 80% of the time. This all being said, it's dated enough for other jazz albums to build on it and create more dynamic storylines. I'd buy this record, though. This has got to be amazing on a quality set of speakers, but I'm not going to pretend I'm suddenly going to listen to this on a yearly basis. This is better for an occasional party-listen paired with adequate substances. 4.4/5

Mahtavaa jazzia, varmaan parasta mitä oon kuullut. Tosi miellyttävää ja rentouttavaa. Take Five kanssa tosi tunnettu biisi. Parhaat: Take Five, Blue Rondo a la Turk

4/8

Grande album cin una serie di pezzi famosi tipo blue rondo a la turk, take five e kathy’s waltz

Good album definitely would listen to again when I feel like just vibing.

A good time

Eminently listenable cool jazz

Blue Rondo a la Turk - 4.5/5 Strange Meadow Lark - 3.5/5 Take Five - 5/5 Three to Get Ready - 4/5 Kathy's Waltz - 4/5 Everybody's Jumpin' - 4/5 Pick Up Sticks - 4/5 A gateway into what jazz can be and how songs outside of the standard 4/4 can still be great. Take Five is arguably one of the most famous modern jazz standards, but Blue Rondo a la Turk is almost equally as great. Unfortunately some of the other tracks really tread into that "background noise" aesthetic for me so that bumps it down a bit for me. Good, cool jazz though. Overall: 4/5 Favorites: Blue Rondo a la Turk, Take Five

I was in just the right headspace when I played this one. Really engaging jazz!

No sabia que eran estos los que hicieron ese tema ahre Nota: 3.7

Actually a bit underwhelming but take five is such a banger that I have to give this a good rating

Piano

A fun an otherwise pleasant collection of songs I never knew I heard a bunch of bits and pieces of before. I need to make a jazz jams playlist.

85

Favourite Songs: Take Five Kathy's Waltz

Me gustó, es un disco relajado, algo loco en ciertas secciones y además tiene una canción icónica.

Cool Jazz, always get a Charlie Brown/Peanuts vibe from this record. I have heard it but never researched this album before. Interesting history on the unique, for the time, use of time signatures makes it a cool piece of music history. It is complicated yet very accessible and I give it high marks for its innovation and influence on jazz.

14.jul 2026. 16.28h love heeeer

Nothing blew me away here, I’ve heard a few of these before (pat on the back me!), but also no complaints! 4/5.

Excellent jazz album which I’ve heard many times before. Excellent on a peaceful morning walk, or a coffee in the garden or elsewhere.

-Música de fondo -Jazz -Raro -Instrumental

Just realized I’ve heard Blue Rondo à la Turk and Take Five before this. Was a fun listen and was good background music while I got some things done around my apartment.

Jak narazie jest super, mega chill, zupełnie inny od tego co ja słucham ale o to chodzi! Jestem na piątej piosence, co za majstersztyk, kocham to GENIALNE Co za genialny album, zakochałem się w jazzie, chce do jazz clubu

132. Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959) 7.4.26 Variety: 4 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 5 Emotionality: 2 = 4.2 rounded down to 4 "Oom, junka, junk, boom, boom. Oom, junka, junk…That’s the way Take Five opens and I don’t stop that beat from the time of the introduction to the end. In many ways, it’s the tune I look forward to probably the most of the evening. It’s 'How far out are we going to go on one chord progression?'" - Dave Brubeck A fine, mellow choice for a hot Saturday. It's been sometime since I listened to this, but I remember liking it quite a bit, and the central track pops up from time to time by itself and is always welcome. I can't say that I'm familiar with much else of Brubeck's in particular, but have done enough reading and seen some documentary type stuff to know that this album was a HUGE milestone, being the first jazz album to make a million selling dent in the market, and was somewhat influential and innovative in it's time. with all the incorporation of odd time signatures. That stuff likely will not come into this review as my toolkit for talking about this sort of thing is limited to feelings. No music training, can't read sheets, and I barely grasp what time signatures even are. But I can give my impressions of how and why certain bits work for me hopefully. I predict decent numbers here. THE TRACKS Side one "Blue Rondo à la Turk" - At turns both low key and as intense as this thing gets, the mix of time signatures which is seems to be the overall "gimmick" of this album is apparent from jump street. in under 7 minutes we go on tour of styles and moods that feels neither rushed nor ill planned. It almost serves as a non-verbal introduction for each band member and sets up the mellow, yet "anything goes" atmosphere that the rest of the album will deliver on. "Strange Meadow Lark" - Meandering piano stuff is among my least favorite things to be found in all of jazz, and I much prefer the more focused take on this sort of thing by someone like Vince Guaraldi. It doesn't kill the track for me by any means, and there is much else to take the heat off - Paul Desmond's lovely sax solo for example. Romantic and lazy and as decent a bit of antianxiety medicine as one could ask for. "Take Five" - Sitting squarely in the center ring, we get one of the all-time popular tracks in the genre. Something even my mom, an avowed anti-jazz person ( unless it's Christmasy that is) would recognize ( if not be able to name). Iconic as any track on any album on this list I'm willing to bet. So much that I'm sure I've heard it used in tv shows and movies as shorthand for "jazz". The very definition of intellectual playfulness, it's marked by three parts that make me absolutely love it - 1) The sax melody 2) the repeated piano line 3) Morello's drums. Sure I just named the literal elements of the song, but... Morello's drum rolls here are so organically solid and his solo is so perfectly timed and unforced sounding, like it was always happening somewhere off in a far corner or another room and we just briefly went and watched before heading back to the song proper, and it's still happening out there somewhere maybe. Brubeck's repeated piano riff sound soooo basic and unflashy and firm that it fully supports the drums and allows Morello and Desmond to go anywhere they want. Desmond's Sax floats in the upper atmosphere briefly before coming back down to earth and rejoining the still, very laod-back, but not tranquil garden party. I could listen to this on a loop and never tire of it I think. Side two "Three to Get Ready" - Even though the last track was in NO way exhausting or energy sapping, this next one still somehow manages to make it seem so by comparison. Jaunty, and ... uh frolicsome> What are some more synonyms for how frisky and low stakes this feels. This is music for when you get up just a little bit late ( not too late though) on the weekend and make breakfast, with no place to be and nothing on the schedule. Free, unencumbered and maybe with a spring in your step as you flip those eggs. "Kathy's Waltz" - Things get a bit more swingy here, and Brubeck adds a little salt to those eggs. Much more interesting than the last track, we're still at a resting heartbeat here though. This one's famous for the polyrhythm going on here with the 3/4 waltz and the 4/4 melody over top. This is one of those tracks that I think would be a great real world example for talking about time signatures with a layperson ( like me) in particular as it's so smoothly executed and easy to grasp here. "Everybody's Jumpin'" - This one gets slightly bit more aggressive and upbeat, which is a wonderful bit of contrast, and much more my speed. Still a bit of false advertising in that title though as these must be some slow motion jumps. Still, this one falls on the very enjoyable side of things for me. "Pick Up Sticks" - Eugene Wright gets his time in the sun here with a wonderful bassline that propels forward, wavelike, catching all the other instruments in it's wake and pulling them back out to sea with it. Brubeck gets especially percussive here on the keys and that stormy sort of rocking tempo leaves us with maybe the most toe tapping track on the album. HIGHLIGHTS - "Blue Rondo à la Turk" - "Take Five" - "Everybody's Jumpin'" - "Pick Up Sticks" MIDLIGHTS - "Strange Meadow Lark" - "Three to Get Ready" - "Kathy's Waltz" LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS If Brubeck and company upset the apple cart as much as has been written, then no doubt they paused, horrified, and spent the next several minutes apologizing and picking all those apples up before rearranging them just so and then apologizing again. This might be the most mellow relaxed, and precise musical revolutionary milestone I've ever heard. Of course, I knew this going in, and I knew that as lite and subdued as it was I would be enjoying myself nonetheless. When it comes to jazz my tendencies lean to the hard bop guys - Blakey, Coltrane, Mobley etc... Everyone on here was aces when it came to performance, but Joe Morello's drumming needs a special call out. Wow. Dude provides the skeleton of the whole apparatus here, but is as much apart of the tapestry of as anyone else and most definitely does NOT remain in the background, content to let others take the spotlight too much. Not an original thought by any means, but his cymbal control throughout this is the tits! This is great stuff, and I get that it blew some tops off when it came out, and more importantly it helped swing jazz over into a whole new market of middle class white America at the same time. Experimental enough to be respected by those in the know, yet mainstream enough to fly off the shelves and onto the mid-century modern record cabinets everywhere. As good as it is , it suffers from a lack of emotional effect that stuff like the Miles Davis albums we've listened to, and the best jazz singers can pull off with aplomb. If it lacks anything else, it's a sense of daring and excitement that the best stuff from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers or some of the Afro-Latin Jazz Fusion stuff usually delivers on. But not everything needs to move me. Some music can just be exceptionally playful and intellectually interesting, and this falls in to that for me. The shiny coat of innovation has long worn off this album by the decades of stuff it inspired and influenced so much that someone hearing it for the first time today I best would immediately peg the general time period. It sounds very much of its time and place now, and has that kind of late 50s cool, but not too cool vibe to it that in an even worse timeline would be even mellower and err on the side of a Chuck Mangione or the like. I could easily see this being a 5/5 for the true aficionados who grasp all the technical intricacies, and are steeped in the history of all the individual players, and the mythology of Brubeck's travels and inspirations from world music, but to me this is just a prime relaxation soundtrack. Catchy in spots, full of great rhythms, with an all-time track in there of course, but nothing that could ever get my pulse rate up above 70. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - Nope FURTHER LISTENING - New Jazz Conceptions by Bill Evans - Time Further Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Tears of Joy by Don Ellis - Take 10 by Paul Desmond

Listened previously. Expectations: High - Verdict: Near Perfect - Blue Rondo is an all time classic, the 9/8 time is incredibly propulsive and energetic. Strange Meadow Lark is lovely. Take Five is an obvious masterpiece, one of the best known pieces of jazz ever. Three To Get Ready continues the high standard. Everybody's Jumpin' is a late highlight. An impossibly important album that holds up amazingly well today.

4 Take five is my favourite of the (admittedly very few) jazz songs I know. The rest of the album isn't quite as good as that song but still great

what a breath of fresh air!! i always thought that jazz is boring until this album, love all the songs! added them all to my playlist

Not a huge fan of jazz, but this was lovely to listen to on a summer day while lounging on a sunchair in my patio.

Pretty good jazz album. It's tight and coherent and I appreciate that. The competing time signatures will probably be the most talked about feature of Time Out, and rightfully so, it's pretty neat sounding. Definitely keeps things interesting. I could see myself listening to this album again looking for something interesting to have on in the background. I think this one is a 4 for me.