Blue Rondo à la Turk (Previously Unreleased)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Blue Rondo à la Turk - Time OutTakes (Previously Unreleased Takes from the Original 1959 Sessions)
Time OutTakes will be available on December 4, 2020 in time to celebrate Dave’s 100th Birthday on 12/6/2020. It will contain never before heard takes from the original 1959 session.
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"Blue Rondo à la Turk"
From the album Time OutTakes (Previously Unreleased Takes from the Original 1959 Sessions)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Joe Morello, drums
Eugene Wright, bass
Looking back, I’m sure ‘Blue Rondo’ influenced my choice of ethnomusicology (world music) as my major at university. My generation was searching for sources of inspiration beyond the conventions of jazz, based on show tunes and there was a vast world of exotic rhythms and scales east of the Mediterranean. The well-known story of ‘Blue Rondo’ is that Dave heard this 9/8 rhythm performed by Turkish street musicians during his famous 1958 US State Department Cultural Exchange Tour. ‘Blue Rondo’ is the only instance on Time Out (and the whole ‘time series’) of using a pre-existing rhythm from another culture. What really counts is Dave’s subsequent realization that he could invent rhythms that hadn’t been used in jazz. ‘Three to Get Ready,’ two bars of 3 /4 followed by two bars of 4/4, is an alternation of waltz and swing that implies a humorous dialogue between styles. The rhythm itself sets up tension-release expectations that tell a ‘story’ just as harmony and melody do in standards.
Naturally, the takes chosen for release on the Columbia Records’ Time Out were the most polished performances of this newly composed music. Sixty years later these ‘heads’ are familiar and this time around we can focus on the great improvisations that were held back because of little mistakes in the pre-composed sections. The Columbia ‘Blue Rondo’ picked itself on the basis of fewer mistakes, but here on Time OutTakes Paul and Dave refer to the main theme and Turkish-sounding scales in blues choruses that extend and unify the main idea, so the solos are more interesting and better serve the composition. I would have chosen this version of ‘Three To Get Ready’ even then because Dave’s solo is so adventurous and compositionally advanced. The ‘dialogue’ becomes an ‘argument’ with overlaps and interruptions and flashes of virtuosity leading to reconciliation.
Time Out opened new territory for experimentation with non-western music and odd times by artists like John McLaughlin and Chick Corea. And me. ~ Darius Brubeck
Well this video has been up for less than 24 hours and it already has over 2k views. Glad to see people still enjoy the Brubeck Quartet.
It's a shame that 2000 hits is great for one of the greatest jazz artists of all time when someone like Lady Gaga can get 2 million views in the same amount of time for releasing anything at all.
@@metrodraft different times, different times
@@metrodraft A person could lose a lot of sleep wondering why Lady G. has more "hits",etc. I'm glad she digs Tony Bennett and probably Brubeck as well. Regardless,great music and great musicians are "without category ".
@@metrodraft It's so Sad
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And all these years later and it still holds up. Time Out is what made me a fan of jazz.
I first heard this in the 1960s when I was in my 20s in the UK and thought it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. And I am 75 now and still feel the same way
Wow. I haven't heard that much Dave Brubeck since the 1970's except for Time Out. Blue Rondo was my favorite on that album. But, these outtakes are good as well, and quite interesting.
Now, it bring to mind the Brubeck Quartet recording of Pilgrim's Progress, a favorite of mine in those teen years of mine in the 1970s.
This may be my favorite song of all time. I'm so grateful that my dad was a jazz fan (mom not so much). This and Mulligan, Getz, Baker, Chico Hamilton, and others were the soundtrack of my youth. I didn't really appreciate it until I was much older.
It's good to hear the piano in the center of the stereo mix where it should be, instead of confined to the right channel as it was on all of the Columbia stereo LPs.
I heard him play live in Hyderabad, India in the early sixties, it was a fabulous performance!
The creative genius that was Paul Desmond, always in awe of his solos which just flow from one gorgeous phrase to another. I'd love another dry martini Paul.
The most creative tempo song I ever heard. 9/8 is very unusual, but then syncopated (12-12-123, 12-12-123,123-123-123) and THEN juxtaposed with the 4/4! Magnificent!
this is a treasure trove of gifts. songs I've listened to all my life, played slightly differently. gives a whole new feeling of discovery of this group's genius.
Will have to pick this up-I see why they may have opted for the released take(which is much tighter),though I dig the chances that Dave takes midway through his solo. Slowing things down ever so much,daring the listener 2 hang in there. Thanks for this!
Yes, exactly. This 4/4 solo is so chill, lilting, hanging, like Lady Day.
Always a quartet made in heaven! Jazz eternity. It's fascinating through this alternate and wonderful version how things evolved until the final, released form! Brubeck, Desmond, Morello Eugene Wright! On top of all let's not forget the KINDNESS of Great Dave, one of the most lovely personalities in jazz!
An Alltime Unrivaled And Great Performance!
I usually hate albums which feature alternate takes. This one is different though. I can almost say I like the two new releases more than the original, atleast as much. Absolutely love it
the 4/4 piano solo is so so so chill I love it
Real Dave Brubeck, very innovative .a real master with timings ,and that Paul Desmond!!!!
One of the greatest jazz songs of all time, unreleased recordings of this song 🎵 is boss!!
Thank you for sharing
I was originally introduced to Dave Brubeck by Keith Emerson: ruclips.net/video/tqQWntzevy4/видео.html
Take 5 ! Blessings and greetings.
Magnifique !
such a time in music!!!!
On attend avec impatience !
I want to be a gentlemen but don’t want to turn into Sir Buzzkillington
Better sound quality.
definitely swinging mo'better here @ this slower, more manageable pace...more innovative, too! All the while GENE keeps 'layin' down' solid rhythms and supportive chords! I like DESMOND'S solos here better than the album cut. Regardless, if this and other 'alternate cuts' are publically available, then we get twice the enjoyment!
the first HALF of my (previous) comments have "mysteriously" DISAPPEARED! WT* ???
Great Jam!
Amo esto!!
lan ben türküm lan
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中学生時代によく聴きました。Jazzといえば、この時代の倍音が基本だと思えます。😊
You can find this melody in the first seconds of Symphony in D minor no 1 by Peter Lange-Muller
this almost sounds like a song for a chase scene
Macedonia🎷🎶🎺🎹
took me weeks to learn this piece. my fave brubeck tune.