Make a Jazz Noise Here

[Artem]

First time released on CD since the album came out in 1972. Sounds like a mix of 60s Andrew Hill and 70s Herbie Hancock.
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[Bogey]

Closing up a Sunday evening:

[Artem]

I like Bill Evans a lot. His music really helped me to appreciate and enjoy jazz.

[Bogey]

I like Bill Evans a lot. His music really helped me to appreciate and enjoy jazz.

Indeed.  Just a touch that no one else has copied.  Maybe Guaraldi a bit, but his quietness that still dominates with a whisper is something I truly enjoy.

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Forgot what a great album this is

[San Antone]

Listening to some early Weather Report (the period I enjoy best) ~

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That is my favorite WR as well, generally don't like the later 70s commercial fusion

[San Antone]

That is my favorite WR as well, generally don't like the later 70s commercial fusion

Great record!

[NJ Joe]

Forgot what a great album this is

Yes it is.  Have you heard this? Live and excellent.

[mn dave]

Top 100 Jazz Songs

http://www.jazz24.org/jazz-100/

[EigenUser]

I heard "Storm Approaching" on the Dallas jazz station a week ago or so and loved it:
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[Brian]

Okay, this is a big problem I have with both that link and the people who keep putting Time Out in the Top Ten thread. "Take Five", the album version, is not that good. They're slower, they're tentative, just feeling out the possibilities of 5/4 time. In later years, the band grew more confident, Dave Brubeck started flipping the script and turning "Take Five" into a minor-key sad ballad, and they really kicked up the tempo. Almost any live performance is better than the album version; the one on At Carnegie Hall doesn't have a big drum solo, but it's still much more engaging.

In case there are doubters:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tT9Eh8wNMkw

...wait, EigenUser lives in Dallas?!

[Ken B]

Okay, this is a big problem I have with both that link and the people who keep putting Time Out in the Top Ten thread. "Take Five", the album version, is not that good. They're slower, they're tentative, just feeling out the possibilities of 5/4 time. In later years, the band grew more confident, Dave Brubeck started flipping the script and turning "Take Five" into a minor-key sad ballad, and they really kicked up the tempo. Almost any live performance is better than the album version; the one on At Carnegie Hall doesn't have a big drum solo, but it's still much more engaging.

In case there are doubters:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tT9Eh8wNMkw

...wait, EigenUser lives in Dallas?!

I was put off Brubeck for a long time by the Time Out album.

As for Nate I just think he searches the radio dial for stations with poor reception and lots of interference. Helps with Ligeti.

[torut]

I heard "Storm Approaching" on the Dallas jazz station a week ago or so and loved it:
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Tom Harrel is very good, and that is a nice album. My favorite is this. (Especially, Namely You.)
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[Brian]

I was put off Brubeck for a long time by the Time Out album.

What about it put you off? If it was the slick ease of the style, well, that's the Quartet, and you should save your time for other things. If it was Paul Desmond in particular, I'm kind of with you; my favorite albums are the ones where he's least cloying. If it was just that the playing feels cautious and studied, well, that's the big reason Time Out is not one of their best efforts.

I like the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in a guilty pleasure kind of way; being caught listening to them feels a bit like being caught eating pretzel M&Ms. I think it's because there's so little conflict, drama, ferocity; Charles Mingus seems like he'd tear Paul Desmond apart. (Mingus and Brubeck did record a duet track.) But at their very best, the crazy rhythms, Joe Morello's inspired drumming, and Brubeck's scholarly playing can combine to produce great things. The Carnegie Hall date is the greatest of those things, that I've heard.

It's a Big Box Bargain, the "complete studio Brubeck," but I could be perfectly satisfied with the Carnegie Hall date, plus Time Further Out, Countdown, and Gone with the Wind.

[EigenUser]

Okay, this is a big problem I have with both that link and the people who keep putting Time Out in the Top Ten thread. "Take Five", the album version, is not that good. They're slower, they're tentative, just feeling out the possibilities of 5/4 time. In later years, the band grew more confident, Dave Brubeck started flipping the script and turning "Take Five" into a minor-key sad ballad, and they really kicked up the tempo. Almost any live performance is better than the album version; the one on At Carnegie Hall doesn't have a big drum solo, but it's still much more engaging.

In case there are doubters:

http://www.youtube.com/v/tT9Eh8wNMkw

...wait, EigenUser lives in Dallas?!

No, but I have two cousins that live there and I was there last week visiting with them. I've been there several times before (Frisco area) and I love it. I hope to move there eventually, in fact. Then again, I love the DC area, where I have lived since I was 1.5 years old (VA). And I love New England, where I have a ton of family (Maine) and where I was born (north of Boston). It's so confusing!

Why do you seem surprised that I might live in the DFW area? Are you from there or something?

As for Nate I just think he searches the radio dial for stations with poor reception and lots of interference. Helps with Ligeti.

They don't play Ligeti on the radio. It isn't background music!

[Brian]

Why do you seem surprised that I might live in the DFW area? Are you from there or something?

I've been living here for two years. Central Dallas.

[Ken B]

What about it put you off? If it was the slick ease of the style, well, that's the Quartet, and you should save your time for other things. If it was Paul Desmond in particular, I'm kind of with you; my favorite albums are the ones where he's least cloying. If it was just that the playing feels cautious and studied, well, that's the big reason Time Out is not one of their best efforts.

I like the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in a guilty pleasure kind of way; being caught listening to them feels a bit like being caught eating pretzel M&Ms. I think it's because there's so little conflict, drama, ferocity; Charles Mingus seems like he'd tear Paul Desmond apart. (Mingus and Brubeck did record a duet track.) But at their very best, the crazy rhythms, Joe Morello's inspired drumming, and Brubeck's scholarly playing can combine to produce great things. The Carnegie Hall date is the greatest of those things, that I've heard.

It's a Big Box Bargain, the "complete studio Brubeck," but I could be perfectly satisfied with the Carnegie Hall date, plus Time Further Out, Countdown, and Gone with the Wind.

Some Brubeck I like some not. You are right, I don't like "smooth" so much. Actually I often hate it. Sometimes though they have more complexity and life than others. I like Jazz goes to College.
I can't say I like the song Time Out as a composition, but yeah the sax is just too laid back. It's an album that in its best moments just lays there.

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Cool, I spent have of my life growing up in Plano but am now in Houston, the only world class city in TX

[Ken B]

I've been living here for two years. Central Dallas.

I thought you played piano in Amsterdam(?)