Dave brubeck albums - take five

Dave gave thousands of interviews over his long career and invariably since 1959 he was asked about one the biggest selling jazz albums of all time, Time Out and also the first jazz single to sell a million copies, Take Five. The most definitive version Dave gave was in an interview to Columbia Records at his home in Wilton on September 12, 2003. This interview was subsequently included in the Columbia Legacy 50th Anniversary edition of Time out released in 2009.  (Copyright – Columbia Records )

Well, I wanted to do an experimental album using time signatures that weren’t usual in Jazz.

If you’re alone and just riding miles and miles with just nothing but you and your horse and the horse going along at a steady gait, I would start thinking of rhythms that I could hear from the horse’s hooves. I could hear how to put a different beat against that. One, two, three, four, five. And get mayb