![]() That will have to wait for a box set one day, pending resolution of any legal or ethical issues of releasing takes that the artists deliberately nixed. This is not an authoritative, exhaustive compilation of all the outtakes and alternates from the three recording sessions on June 25, July 1, and August 18, 1959. It is therefore no small event - to me or to jazz fans everywhere - that we now have Time Outtakes, the alternate tracks for the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s classic 1959 album Time Out. “Take Five” isn’t just one of the biggest (and last) acoustic jazz hit singles, it’s become part of the essential soundtrack of its era and beyond. Someone droning on in a Zoom meeting and not getting to the point? “Take Five,” and my feet tap on the 1 and 4. Stuck at a train crossing? “Take Five” while the cars go clicking past in 5/4 time. It launches a little creative solo in my imagination every time. You can usually see me doing my job at work, and the tip of one finger will be very slightly tapping Philly Joe Jones’s rim shots behind the melody of Miles Davis’s “Milestones.” Or I’m flexing my toes inside my shoe to the bass line of Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady.” (If you have some brain implant songs of your own, let us know in the comments below.)īut of all the core earworms that have rerouted my synapses, the one that I’ll probably be babbling out long after I’ve forgotten the rest is the opening vamp to Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.” It’s hypnotic, stabilizing, and inviting. These aren’t necessarily my favorite songs, but for some reason the melodies and vamps are in my bloodstream. There are a handful of songs that have been going through my head for the better part of 40 years: Jaco Pastorius’s “Three Views of a Secret,” Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology,” and a few others. There are earworms, and then there are total brain implants. The technical term is “Involuntary Musical Imagery,” but most of us know them as “earworms.” They’re fragments of a catchy melody, a jingle, a hook from a pop song, or (maximum irritation) a random few unremarkable bars from a tune we don’t particularly like that get stuck in our head all day or torment us while we’re trying to fall asleep. ![]()
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