Time Out

It was great listening to it on another media. I have had this album on cassette tape, cd, and now on vinyl. Vinyl is great.

Bought as a gift. Arrived excellent condition. Cool purple vinyl, classic Brubeck!

Great repo of the original

I remembered a song in the early 60s that was great. Reconnected with it and found the CD. The entire recording is brillant IMO.Highly recommend!Jennifer

Oh Behave

I finally broke down and picked up this CD to replace my two vinyl LPs (monaural and stereo). Whether due to age, dust, a fading cartridge and stylus, I was getting distortion from Joe Morello's cymbals. So I've received this latest deluxe version trumpeting its advanced technology and audio--but where are the cymbals? And on a recording where time and percussion deserve top billing! The first thing noticeable on the opening track is the near-inaudibility of the ride cymbal (it becomes louder by the end of the track).In short, this is not the greatest transcription--not even close. Desmond's alto is full, silky, and very present, and the bass, as usual on recordings these days, is certainly adequate (thankfully not over-cranked). The piano sound, on the other hand, is "cramped and narrow," lacking the rich Steinway sonorities of the vinyl original. And even as I've got my treble control turned all the way up, Morello's percussion--brush work and especially cymbals--is simply weak and distant in the mix. Shame on the Sony-Columbia engineers (especially after their glorious transcription of "Duke Ellington at Newport 1956"--perhaps the best-ever transfer of a vinyl recording to digital).Besides the introduction of unconventional time signatures to jazz, "Time Out" was the beginning of the Brubeck Quartet's many studio albums. All you have to do is go back to some of their earlier, "live" concert dates on Fantasy and Columbia to realize that "Time Out" is actually a relatively "conservative," uninspired recording, as is true of most of the Brubeck studio sessions. (As for those reviewers who call this the best Brubeck recording or, for that matter, best jazz recording of all time, I almost envy them: imagine their ecstatic response when they get around to listening to "Kind of Blue.")

The CD sounds great! And although it's not mentioned anywhere on the CD, this is infact 20bit HDCD encoded, which was nice to see. It's a classic album, just get it.

Uno de los mejores discos de Jazz, sin desperdicio.

Bon achat, Merci beaucoup

Sin duda el mejor inicio para quien quiere entrar al mundo del jazz

O melhor disco de Dave Brubeck. Ótima qualidade sonora.

Todo perfecto, calidad de sonido muy buena

Some tracks have pops and ticks.