Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck’s Masterpiece “Time Out” Certified Double Platinum by RIAA

Dave Brubeck’s 1959 Jazz Masterpiece Time Out Certified Double Platinum by RIAA

American
jazz legend Dave Brubeck, who celebrates his 91st birthday December 6,
reached another milestone recently when Time Out, his 1959 watershed
masterpiece, was awarded Double Platinum status by the RIAA in
recognition of sales of more than two million copies in the United
States.

A profoundly pivotal and influential recording, Time Out
— which began as a musical experiment showcasing the Dave Brubeck
Quartet performing seven original jazz compositions, each in a different
time signature — became an iconic crossover smash, reaching #2 on the
Billboard Pop chart in 1961, eventually spending a mind-blowing 164
weeks on the charts. Propelled in part by “Take Five, ” the DBQ’s
signature classic in 5/4 time, Time Out is the first jazz album to sell
more than one million copies and one of the select few to achieve Double
Platinum status.

Time Out was added to the Library of Congress’s
National Recording Registry in 2005. Legacy Recordings released a
three-disc 50th Anniversary Edition of Time Out in 2009, the same year
the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (established by The
Recording Academy’s National Trustees in 1973 to honor recordings of
lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25
years old).

Brubeck’s album, Dave Brubeck: Legacy of a Legend,
released in advance of the legend’s 90th birthday last year, hit #1 on
the CMJ Jazz Top 40 chart as the album garnered critical acclaim and
coast-to-coast airplay. With the album reaching #13 on the Billboard Top
Jazz Album chart and #8 on the Traditional Jazz Album Chart, Brubeck
earned the rare distinction of having played on albums charting in every
decade since the 1950s. Dave Brubeck: Legacy of a Legend, a
commemorative collection of tracks hand-picked by the artist, featuring
extensive annotation and anecdotal liner notes written by his son
Darius, was released through Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony Music
Entertainment, to all physical and digital retail outlets last November.

Brubeck
received Kennedy Center Honors in December 2009, and, along with his
ensemble, was named the Jazz Group of the Year in the 2010 Downbeat
Reader’s Poll.

Dave Digs Disney, Brubeck’s delightfully
groundbreaking jazz interpretations of classic songs from Disney films,
has recently been made available as a two CD package in the US featuring
the original mono album on Disc 1 and stereo mixes and alternate takes
of the album on Disc 2. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles over the
course of three historic sessions in June and August 1957, Dave Digs
Disney is often cited as one of the most important titles in the Brubeck
canon.

On November 1, 2011, Legacy Recordings released Their
Last Time Out, a two-CD, 15-track recording of the December 26, 1967
concert (with the exception of a 1976 reunion tour) of the classic Dave
Brubeck Quartet–featuring Paul Desmond on alto sax, Eugene Wright on
bass, and Joe Morello on drums–the group’s final performance (with the
exception of a 1976 reunion). Recorded in Pittsburgh, December 26, 1967:
Their Last Time Out finds the classic DBQ at the top of its game,
marking the close of an 18-year run as one of the most influential, and
popular, ensembles in jazz. An emotional celebration of the quartet’s
repertoire, the 98 minute concert has been made available for the first
time by the Brubeck Archives and signs off with the consummate
performance of “Take Five, ” that unpretentious and infectiously
swinging combination of melody, rhythm and sound that’s come to signify
jazz itself.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet – December 26, 1967: Their Last Time Out

Disc 1
Introduction
St. Louis Blues
Three To Get Ready
These Foolish Things
Cielito Lindo
La Paloma Azul
Take The “A” Train
Someday My Prince Will Come

Disc 2
Intro to Band Members
Swanee River
I’m In A Dancing Mood
You Go To My Head
Set My People Free
For Drummers Only
Take Five

On
November 22, 2011, Legacy Recordings released The Dave Brubeck
Quartet’s Complete Studio Albums in a boxed set containing 19 CDs in
facsimile sleeves covering the DBQ’s Columbia Records catalog from
1955’s Brubeck Time through 1966’s Anything Goes, with several long
sought-after album titles being converted to a digital medium for the
first time in the creation of this collection.

The Complete Dave Brubeck Quartet Studio Recordings
1.
Brubeck Time (1955)
CL 622
CK 65724

2.
Jazz Impressions Of The U.S.A. (1956)
CL 984

3.
Dave Digs Disney (1957)
CS 8090
CK 48820

4.
Jazz Impressions Of Eurasia (1958)
CS 8058
CK 48531

5.
Southern Scene (1960)
CS 8235

6.
Time Out (1959)
CS 8192
CK 65122

7.
Gone With The Wind (1959)
CS 8156
CK 40627

8.
Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1961)
CS 8257
CK 90857

9.
Time Further Out (1961)
CS 8490
CK 64668

10.
Countdown – Time In Outer Space (1962)
CS 8575
CK 86405

11.
Brandenburg Gate Revisited (1963)
CS 8763
CK 65725

12.
Bossa Nova U.S.A. (1962)
CS 8798