![]() ![]() So I said, I’m going to use this rhythm in a tune and I will call it "Blue Rondo A La Turk". We all grew up improvising in that rhythm”. June 8th said “That to us is like the blues to you. His name was June 8th he was born on June 8th so that was his name. ![]() The rhythm fascinated me so much there was one Turkish musician, I remember his name. We were doing odd things.īlue Rondo A La Turk was a street rhythm that I heard street musicians playing in Istanbul. Eugene Wright would think “How I am going to hold this together”.Īs a leader you gotta be part psychiatrist and get your ideas over in a rather delicate way. Paul was always sceptical of any new move he didn’t get excited about doing things in different time signatures. When I brought up the idea with my quartet of doing this experimental album, Joe Morello was so pleased that he would be able to do more compound times playing in different time signatures. That was kind of the start of the way I thought about rhythm. I could hear how to put a different beat against that. If you’re alone and just riding miles and miles with just nothing but you and your horse and the horse going along at a steady gait, I would start thinking of rhythms that I could hear from the horse’s hooves. Well, I wanted to do an experimental album using time signatures that weren’t usual in Jazz. This interview was subsequently included in the Columbia Legacy 50th Anniversary edition of Time out released in 2009. The most definitive version Dave gave was in an interview to Columbia Records at his home in Wilton on September 12, 2003. 4, ranks as the first release from Brubeck Editions, an imprint overseen by the Brubeck family.The origins of Time Out & Take Five - Dave Brubeckĭave gave thousands of interviews over his long career and invariably since 1959 he was asked about one the biggest selling jazz albums of all time, Time Out and also the first jazz single to sell a million copies, Take Five. State Department tour when his father took in a performance of Turkish street musicians and was supposedly inspired to write a piece with a 9/8 time signature.Īlong with Brubeck, who would have turned 100 this year, and Desmond, the upcoming album features work by bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello, all members of Brubeck’s classic quartet. The younger Brubeck added that the tune came to be following a 1958 U.S. Here, Paul and Dave make reference to Turkish-sounding scales that extend and unify the main idea, so the solos are more interesting and better serve the composition.” “On this Time OutTakes track, elements of the core musical themes are restated, inverted, made polytonal and thoroughly integrated into these creative blues explorations. 18, came out as the flip side of ‘Take Five’ and had only four choruses of piano),” Chris Brubeck, a multi-instrumentalist and Dave Brubeck’s son, wrote in an email to DownBeat. ![]() (The other version, from the third session on Aug. “This ‘new’ track was probably passed on simply because of length Dave Brubeck explored his music very deeply during his blues solos-10 choruses to be exact. But the album also gave the world Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo À La Turk.” A previously unreleased version of the song-along with six other tunes and some in-studio banter-is set for release as Time OutTakes.Ī recently discovered version of “Blue Rondo À La Turk” premieres below. It has remained sonically stamped on American life, offering up compositions like the title track and “Cathy’s Waltz” that still are recognizable to people with only a passing interest in jazz. ![]() 14, 1959, The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out achieved prominence in popular culture in a way few jazz records ever have. Unreleased recordings of the Dave Brubeck Quartet-saxophonist Paul Desmond (left), pianist Dave Brubeck, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright-are set for release on Dec. ![]()
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