1001 Albums Summary

should have done a tom waits deep dive years ago, amazing lyrics and super interesting arrangements

pretty good yeah true blues 4/5

I hate this album!! I will tell you why. Its boring. None of them are engaging soloists. Particularly Paul Desmond, he just sounds like he's practicing scales. Take Five, the best selling jazz song of all time, is practically one groove for the whole song. There is so much way better and much more interesting jazz out there. I could go full elitist and talk about how none of them have ever heard of outside playing, but Erroll Garner, Cannonball Adderley, and Oscar Peterson prove that that doesn't matter. Blue Rondo is a great tune though, I wish it had better players on it. What fucks me off far more about this record however is its mythos. Its the best selling jazz record of all time at over 2M copies, and its so often held up as incredibly innovative and formative for the genre. Anybody who knows anything about jazz history knows that that is just not true! The harmony is ofc completely standard, and the time signature stuff is not even new either! The real reason that this album sold so well and is so well regarded, and again anybody who knows anything about jazz history can tell you this, is because Dave Brubeck (and 2/3 of his band) was white!!! The record and radio industries at the time were segregated (even in the north!) and it was near impossible for black artists (who invented jazz and had been doing everything on this record and so so so much more for decades) to break out into the American mainstream because of severe systemic racism and segregation. This album isn't good, don't listen to it, stop lapping up the racist lie, and fuck Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond culture vultures I spit on them

interesting I liked it. not ever bothered much with cool jazz but quite enjoyed this, super interesting instrumentation

havent listened to this one since i was a kid, great fun some super classic tracks but a bit samey

much better beats than i was expecting from the west coast but the Christian and homophbic were a major turn off for me

unimpressed and by god that duet w paul mccartney is abominable

Pentecostal racist rapist rock great backing band and I can here from where Jeff got his pipes

super lovely, can hear its influence is far reaching

a classic infectious and banging if a bit one note

great fun, rock n roll guessing theres plenty better but still good stuff