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The box set FOR ALL TIME contains: TIME OUT (1959)/TIME FURTHER OUT (1961)/TIME IN OUTER SPACE (1962)/TIME CHANGES (1964)/TIME IN (1966).
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck (piano); Paul Desmond (alto saxophone); Eugene Wright (bass); Joe Morello (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Ray Wright (conductor).
Recorded between 1959 & 1966. Includes liner notes by Steve Race, Dan Brubeck, Rayburn Wright, Teo Macero and Dave Brubeck.
This five-CD box set collects all five of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time series recordings: Time Out, Time Further Out, Countdown: Time in Outer Space, Time Changes, and Time In, with bonus material attached to three of the discs. Of this quintet of recordings, the latter three have never been available on CD in the United States. Recorded between 1959 and 1965, each of these titles has a distinct relationship to "time travel" in the context of jazz. Brubeck, Paul Desmond, and company were consciously trying to extend the time-space continuum in jazz, and erase the boundaries of imposed four/four signatures in the idiom. Time Out was the first jazz album on which every tune was in a different tempo, and it charted all over the world. Time Further Out netted another hit single with "Unsquare Dance" and its B-side, "It's A Raggy Waltz," a live version of which has been added to the original edition of the album. But these sides have been continually available in one form or another since the dawn of LPs, and were among the first to get the grand remastering treatment in Legacy's ambitious program. From the appearance of Countdown: Time in Outer Space, from 1962 (paying tribute to the new exploration of the last frontier by trying to open up jazz from the inside rather than out); it features the amazing "Eleven Four," by Desmond, in which he creates a rhythmic series of groupings around five/three/three and of course, the widely recognized "Why Phyllis," by Rayburn Wright, which is a blues waltz in three-quarter time. Perhaps the most provocative piece on the disc is the reworking of "Someday My Prince Will Come," which could not have been further from Miles Davis' read of it (and predates it). On "Castillean Blues," a standard blues is shaped into five/four and given the Latin percussion treatment. The album also features a bonus cut and new liner notes by Teo Macero. Time Changes, from 1964, features the beautifully wrought 17-minute epic "Elementals," on which the Brubeck Quartet was accompanied by a full-on symphony orchestra. Macero also recorded a single version of the cut, which was never released until now as the bonus cut. Finally, Time In from 1965, the Brubeck Quartet's 15th anniversary album, is also included. Here, in addition to all of the platitudes from jazz writers and musicians -- as well as a breathy essay by Macero -- the new, expanded edition includes three bonus cuts, all of them long jam-session pieces: "Rude Old Man," "Who Said That" and "Watusi Drums." The sound is pristine yet warm, the expanded liner notes make for excellent reading, and most of all, when grouped this way, these five recordings offer a story: a progression and a synthesis of how time and jazz were synonymous to stretch one another to the breaking point and then become something else, apart and together, in the larger context of modern music. Brubeck's studies with Darius Milhaud and Desmond's revisioning of the blues are intertwined on these discs, making for a portrait at once very strange, yet lush and haunting, and almost nostalgic -- like these stretches were meant to be all along. This is easily the high point of the Brubeck reissue series. ~ Thom Jurek
For All Time Music Review
Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)   beautiful jazz - beautiful music
this is a beautiful jazz music collection. the playing is great and the composition is outstanding.
highly recommended for jazz fans and good music lovers as well.
each cd comes in its own jewel case, complete with booklet and inlay card.
all 5 of them packaged in a sturdy slipcase (box). a simple design but nice.
pricing is quite reasonable, due to they are a repackaged of previously released products.
enjoy the music.
Submitted by -glen- (north texas, tx, usa) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful. Fantastic!
Finally I obtained to find, to buy and to receive a summary from the Dave Brubeck Quartet workmanship - that will substitute my old vinil records bought at 1965 to 1975 decade.
Submitted by f_porto (São Paulo - Brazil)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Hi,
I've been a fan of the DBQ for 41 years
now. So, it must be the music that makes me a great fan.
I hope he will live on and make CD/DVD's
for the next couple of years.
Leo Blom
Submitted by blomleo (The Netherlands)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Brubeck memories
Countdown Time (one of the 5 cds in the box) was the first jazz lp I ever bought, a long time ago, so I couldn't miss its reappearance. In truth, not quite as good as I remember but still swinging interesting music and a wonderful reminder of what a good composer Brubeck is. The inclusion in the box of other non-cd issued material more than makes up for the presence of Time Out which every Brubeck fan must surely have. Packaging is dissapointing when compared to the Miles reissues, but then the box is much cheaper.
Submitted by richard.morris (Birmingham, England)
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