Time Out

Wonderful!!!!!!

Absolutely timeless. One of those albums that makes you question all the other 5 stars you've given.

A really, really good jazz album. The funky time signatures are the highlight, but they only get to shine because everything else is executed so well.

How could you say anything more than smooth? Not like "smooth jazz". Just smooth.

Listening so easy it felt like I was on my third cocktail before I knew it.

classic. first time i heard consciously heard non standard time signatures when i was a teen. great stuff

Old School jazzia. Tykkäsin. Selkeää ja helppoa kuunneltavaa. Kuuntelen varmasti uudelleen, vähintään kappaleita jos ei koko levyä.

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

Essential is the word that comes to mind, and not just for "Take Five" and the epic drum fills. Music that needs no vocals because the instruments are telling you everything you need to know. You can argue that it's the Elvis Presley of jazz albums (white artist taking black music to the masses). Or you can just kick back and enjoy the ever loving shit out of an enduring classic.

vraiment adoré, un super album de quartet. et ce qui est venu après etait aussi super ! J'adore 5

Smoooooth Favorite track: Pick Up Sticks, it makes me want to practice piano more often to try to be this good.

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

Enjoyed!

Turned me on to Jazz

A timeless album that explores different time signatures in each song. Blue Rondo a la Turk is almost orchestral in its scope and a grabs your attention, setting the stage for the album. Strange Meadow Lark starts with a piano playing in a free time for the first part of the song, then plays through the rest of the song in a standard swing rhythm. Take Five is the evergreen standard with a wonderful playfulness to it with it's 5/4 time signature. Three to Get Ready and Kathy's Waltz are wonderful songs are variations between a standard 4/4 swing rhythm to a swing waltz to a traditional 3/4 time waltz rhythm. Everybody's Jumpin' is a fun romp jumping between time signatures. Pick Up Sticks is cool laid back way to end the album, with the bass anchoring everything in a 6/4 time. It's a fun album to pay attention to, but also can just be a mellow thing in the background.

So buttery, so smooth. This is the kind of music that you play at the end of a stressful week and watch your stress melt away

5/5 Amazing Jazz album..

It’s not exactly transcendent but boy were they schmoovin in those time signatures. And Blue Rondo a la Turk has been stuck in my head all day. 9/10

Loved it.

Just want to add - listen to Joe Morello's left hand on Time Out. Masterpiece. The subtlety and understatement is from a higher level. Beautiful example of dynamic range in that tight rhythmic structure. Great album, historically significant, an old favorite. I love every note on this and I am NOT a big saxamaphone guy!

Dave Brubeck’s 1959 classic is essential. The first Jazz album to sell 1M copies, and peaked at #2 on the Pop charts. I’d rate this in my top 5 Jazz albums of all time. Included in the National Recording Registry as being “culturally historically or aesthetically significant”. Besides all that, it’s just a great album. I love the use of unusual time signatures. Despite this explorations of various (and sometimes varying) time signatures, it is all accessible, with a “subtle blend of cool and west coast jazz” (quote from Wikipedia article). Smooth and Easy: 5/5, and highly recommended.

Complex but approachable jazz. Little wonder it was a massive hit upon release. Still holds up. Nothing before or since sounds or satisfies quite like Paul Desmond's ethereal saxophone playing.

one of my first classics

I love it! Should listen to more jazz... 😅

This album is spectacular. I'm not a frequent jazz listener but this is just on another level.

с начала обложка!!! ну и сам очень классный!!!!

Such an amazing album! The engineering and production for 1959 is mind-blowing. Take Five is such a classic tune. I gotta give this one at least a 4.5... it's just so influential and important. And great to listen to!

This jit jump off da porch like it’s a glee episode I’m fuckin with it though it’s a nice rainy day out. I like jazz especially swing idk if this is considered that but it’s cool and cozy though there is that one song that the drummer sounds like a fucking printer breaking or some shit it was brutal. Cool to read up on how this was all about time signatures or some shit hence the name, idk what that means I guess it’s just how fast the players move their fingers or whatever it is they need to do to play their instrument. Sax is easily my favourite instrument and this dude had my tip wet the entire time. But yeah great listen was nice to just turn my brain off and have this as my theme music for the day I loved it. Think I’m gonna check out more of these cats and more in their “time trilogy” After listening to this again I can’t find the song where I thought the drummer sounded like a broken printer 🤔 me thinks me was just overstimulated or something anyways wish I had an expensive pair of headphones to listen to this with I bet it sounds like you’re in the room with them. -B out

Such a listenable album. So complex and rich, that warm clarinet that comes in in strange meadow lark always hits me like a truck. Take five obviously so iconic it’s industrial, ordered, but also moody and a little sad. Bass line on pick up sticks. Blue rondo a la Turk was apparently influenced by Turkish time signatures. Like this is a perfect album to put someone onto jazz

Joyful sophistication.

Great jazz

Classic.

I love this album! My favorite genre of jazz! ❤️❤️❤️

A record of true genius

This is the jazz i like. Have nothing more to say about it. It's just beautiful.

Amazing! Perfect from start to finish. Very chill and great both as background music or as the object of deep study.

Oh this is a five star album. Relisten for the umpteenth time. And time is really what it's all about, in jazz and in life. Take Five is a standard. Blue Rondo is a standard. This is an album of standards. Simple hops from time signature to time signature simply as the river flows.

One thing I know for certain in life is that you can never really go wrong with jazz music. And I was very excited to listen to this album. Unique time signatures combined with cool jazz is a recipe for success in my book. And this is an absolutely killer jazz record. This is the kind of music I can envision following me through different stages of my life. And it's hard to put this on and not decompress and calm down. It just naturally has that effect on me. Strange Meadow Lark feels like the music you would hear in a Charlie Brown Christmas movie, or funnily enough, even The Boondocks, but that may be because I have been watching that show so much as of lately. Three to Get Ready and Kathy's Waltz reminds me of the Club Penguin pizza parlor music, which is honestly iconic at this point. And I'm pretty sure I've heard Three to Get Ready sampled somewhere before, but I can't remember exactly where. Take Five is instantly recognizable, and an absolute classic jazz song. That 5/4 time with the syncopated drums is nothing short of genius. I haven't heard much jazz so far, but this is probably my favorite of the jazz records I have heard. It's simple in all the right ways. A lot of the time, jazz can have very large arrangements and orchestras, but this album manages to do more with just piano, bass, drums, and one saxophone. Rating: 9/10

I like jazz. Jazz is good.

Top tier jazz album.

This is one of the greatest jazz albums of all time. The elegance and streamlined nature of the tracks, the modernism of Take Five it is just fantastic.

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

רציתי לא להינות אבל נהניתי מה לעשות

Enjoyed this! Fun thing about this project, is coming across music you've heard before but never known who it's by. I'm almost positive I've heard "Take Five" in a film or TV show (possibly multiple ones).

Corte que estuvo bien, tipo o sea corte que viste tipo que el coso está bueno.

This is exactly what I want from my Jazz albums. I also like some noisy horns but that wouldn't work so well with this album. Wonderful from start to finish.

Nydelig jazz. Denne versjonen av Take Five er jo en klassiker for alle Hi-Fi nerder. Føler litt at jeg er med i en Woody Allen-film mens plata har surret og gått i hele formiddag.

absolute jazz

One of the best easy Jazz albums, only downside is that it is so popular it sounds like elevator music

Really good, chill, enjoyable, cool album. Good background music, but also good listening music. I really enjoyed this. Some parts were kind of middling and not that interesting but overall it was a very good experience.

4+

A great, accessible jazz album that even non-Jazz fans can enjoy. 'Take Five' is the classic track that everyone knows, but there's plenty more to enjoy.

One of the best-selling jazz albums of all time, and it’s easy to see why. Despite the unusual time signatures/rhythms it’s highly accessible; every track is extremely catchy with strong melodic hooks, especially the iconic ‘Take Five’. My other highlights are: ‘Blue Rondo à la Turk’, with its distinctive combination of a 2-2-2-3 rhythm and another section in swung common time; ‘Three to Get Ready’, which alternates between waltz and common time with a stop-start rhythm; and ‘Kathy’s Waltz’, which has a really cool polyrhythmic piano solo. The other three tracks are strong too. It's just below 5 stars.

Audio is super stereo. Realize I've never intentionally listened to Jazz before, but I could see myself doing so in the future after this. I like Blue Rondo A la Turk.

Makes me feel like I’m at Caffè Nero, like I want to waltz in the kitchen with my future husband. Like I’m at home in my art deco, yellow lighted living room with a vinyl player drinking a glass of red wine in my crystal glass, by a warm fire, with the rain gently falling outside on my floor to ceiling living room windows 😭

Good album. A window to the world of jazz

Take five was an easy five as the name suggests. I’ve just been really liking this jazz kick we have been on. Really calms me down.

So so so beautiful, I love jazz so much

Shut up and play the hits. Blue rondo and take 5 great, gets a bit lounge musicky in places. Overall quite lovely

Really nice rhythm. The odd time feel is fun rather than difficult. Good album.

This is phenomenal! It might be the mainstream Jazz of the 50s and not anything experimental, but Brubeck’s work with time signatures never fails to amaze me. There’s the obvious highlight of ‘Take Five’, but the whole album is some of the most pleasant Cool Jazz you’ll ever hear. This is definitely a Must Listen!

I can tell this is way more technical than I can appreciate. I listened to it and then relistened trying to focus on individual instruments. The sound dynamics are incredible. I feel like this could be on loop for 12 hours and it wouldn't feel like it was repeating

Pretty nice listen. A timeless sound. I think this could keep growing on me.

Un clàssic.

Track By Track Blue Rondo À La Turk - Straight in with piano riff, in a very swinging, polyrhythmic, almost minimalist-sounding ostinato. Can hear maybe some of the legacy this track may have left in its wake there. Quite epic in its structure. The way it weaves different American sounding motifs and rhythms together, it sounds a little Gershwin-esque. I liked the variety in this one tune. A lot packed in. Strange Meadow Lark - lovely lyrical piano in the opening. It floats around, this melody, dancing. Very nice. Think I prefer this one. It has a nice gentle swing in the second section of the song as well. Take Five - The piano riff really drives the whole thing, jazzy, fast-paced, groovy, dancy, never resolving. It’s so great. I’m a big fan. The sax solo is great. Also the drums, the extended solos and fills. Good stuff. Three to Get Ready - this is really cool. I like this. The rhythms, the motifs, all of it. A great swinging fun vibe. Kathy’s Waltz - this is like skating. Feels a little Vince Guaraldi to me. A sweet cozy wintry vibe. A good length also. Everybody’s Jumpin’ - got a nice little jumpy ( ☺️ ) feel to it. Not a stand out one for me particularly but decent enough. Pick Up Sticks - a slow-ish swinging closer. Pretty good. A kind of jamming vibe. Good solos. Again, not a stand out personally. Overall Review: This was nice to listen to, particularly as I’m currently learning about jazz piano a little more. It has some really impressive playing and ‘Take Five’ was a joy to listen to. I didn’t love all of it and it’s not what I always go for, but it was enjoyable basically all the way through. It’s also very lovely background music. 3.6/5 Favourite Songs: Strange Meadow Lark, Take Five, Three to Get Ready

Very pleasant and nice for nice pleasant people.

kul za pozadinsku muziku, u mojij glavi je ovo neki klasicni lagani dzezic

The more I dip my toes into jazz, the more I seems to like it. That album from Dave Brubeck is a classic. Time out is probably one of the most recognizable piece of jazz. But unlike Kind of Blue, it lack a bit on the second half. First three songs is great but after, it’s good. 4/5. Classic album. Will be in my rotation. Blue Rondo À La Turk : 5 Strange Meadow Lark : 4 Take Five : 5 Three to get ready : 3,5 Kathy’s Waltz : 3 Everybody’s Jumpin’ : 3 Pick Up Sticks : 3,5