If You Buy Just Two Jazz CD's

"Time Out" by Brubeck is one of them and "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis is the other. You will then be the proud owner of the two best selling Jazz albums of alltime. Both take a couple of lstenings before they start making an impact. But when they do you'll never put them down. When Time out hit the stores in the 60's every teen who was in to building/configuring his own Stereo equipment purchased that album as it was the ultimate recording for testing your new toys. When the CD finally came out i was disappointed as it lacked the brillance the Columbia 33 1/3 album had. Most notable was the 1st song "Blue Rondo A La Turk " The drum's symbols use to blow you across the room. They were so clear and distinct, unlike the CD.

Wow!

This is my favorite jazz album ever, and "Take Five" is my favorite jazz instrumental ever. It's just PERFECT. What more can I say?

Time OutDave Brubeck Quartet

I loved this disc when I first heard it in the early 1960's and "had to have it".It sounded great and was and still is some of the best jazz period. Well the old LP is long gone, but not my fondness for the music so when I found that it was availabe in SACD, once again I "had to have it". SACD is amazing! Listening to this album you would swear that it was just recorded. The sound is live and you could think that you are in the same space as the musicians. I don't know how the sound engineers did it but the five channel surround is very convincing. You never loose sight of the sound stage but the surround encompasses and lends an intimacy that stereo alone cannot provide. A "must have" for your SACD music library, but this dics is NOT a hybrid so it will not play on a standard CD player. Get a copy and enjoy!