We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
"Time Out" is a Desert Island disc for me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Time Out is a wonderful album.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Nice tune, but I don't care if I never hear it again. I prefer the early stuff, e.g. the octet and "college"/concert LPs.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Come on Mo, it's a timeless melody.
You know you need it daily.
Love the drum sound/solo!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Great composition, great album. Paul Desmond floats on air.
The Secret Life of Machines used a Punk /Ska version of this for it's theme...any idea who did this version?
Death of a Child
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cute tune... always liked it even though it does not Rock
I mean... a Jazz Drummer must be able to do 1,000s of gigs and his Kick Drum will still look like new!
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Yes, part of that magic '59 year.
But not a desert island album.
Take 5 is the piece I've used to show my GF (she loves it too) how pieces can go farther than in 4 to explain that it was perfectly allright to go in 7, 11 and 15, for ex.
I tried to show her 13 with Turn It Out again, but she dislikes the tune (o do I, FTM) so she wouldn't be attention
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
One thing I didn't realise until fairly recently is that the version that became a hit single is a totally different performance to what is on the album. It's a notably different take and about half the length. I'm surprised Columbia's CD didn't feature this version as an extra track.
Take Five is probably the first piece of music I heard that wasn't in standard 4/4 or 3/4 or 6/8 time - certainly the first I heard on the radio. An uncle of mine, who was a bit of a musical snob and mostly only listened to Classical with a capital 'C', loved Dave Brubeck.
If you want to show someone how weird time signatures can get, have them listen to Remainder the Black Dog, by Steven Wilson.
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In my late teens ( latter 1970's ) I was all prog/rock all the time. New stuff, none of that 60's and earlier material.
My folks used to take us to Big Band jazz shows and crooners. Cue the major eye rolls.
One day I was coming out of my basement of solitude, home of MY stereo and music.
My dad was playing music on his stereo, stopped me in my tracks. "What is that", I asked. "Take 5" he says. I was hooked.
Thing is I had probably heard it before.
I think it was my exposure to the time signatures experiments of prog that opened my mind to it. Right place at the right time, it just clicked.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Tito Puente covers "Take Five".
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Best jazz record ever (IMO)! Paul Desmond is da shit! Dave Brubeck is my fave jazz artist!
good cover by George Benson
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