For a generation of white youths outside a few big cities in the late 1950s, jazz was a somewhat distant concept, usually associated with big bands or else in Noir mysteries. Ballads, then the Rock revolution launched with Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” in 1956 [esnl, then 10, ground his 45rpm disc into dust, giving equal treatment to “Don't Be Cruel” on the flip side, altogether the best 45 we ever owned].
While Elvis appealed to a 10-year-old growing up in a Kansas farm town, we didn’t discover jazz until we were in high school in a somewhat large college town at base of the Rocky Mountain foothills in Colorado.
The album that made us an instant convert was Dave Brubeck Quasrtet’s Time Out, which we first heard on the 1961 rerelease of the 159 original.
And one song turned into an earworm, subtly syncopating the way we strolled down the street or pedaled our bike.
Herewith, “Take Five,” with Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto sax, Eugene Wright on bass, and Joe Morello on drums, via vlogger TheDathi:
Dave Brubeck – Take Five
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