How Dave Brubeck's "Accident" Changed Music Forever

Описание: In 1959, Dave Brubeck released an album his record label didn't want, critics dismissed, and conventional wisdom said would never sell. "Time Out" featured jazz in time signatures nobody used—5/4, 9/8, 6/4—inspired by Turkish street musicians and Indian drummers. The lead single, "Take Five," was considered a throwaway that took over 20 attempts to record. It became the best-selling jazz single of all time. This is the story of how four musicians—facing racial discrimination, industry resistance, and technical impossibility—created the first jazz album to sell a million copies. From cattle ranches in California to Cold War jazz diplomacy, from studio accidents to Grammy Hall of Fame immortality, discover how Dave Brubeck's quartet turned mathematical complexity into hypnotic grooves that changed music forever.

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00:00 INTRO
01:50 THE RANCHER'S SON
04:20 THE PERFECT QUARTET
06:15 JAZZ DIPLOMACY
08:43 THE INSURANCE POLICY
10:34 THE THROWAWAY
12:41 THE TURKISH BLUES AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS
14:43 THE ARTWORK
16:17 THE SILENT LAUNCH
18:48 THE RACIAL BATTLEGROUND
20:25 THE VALIDATION
21:28 THE LEGACY
23:08 THE OUTTAKES
24:32 THE ENDINGS
26:00 EPILOGUE


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PRIMARY SOURCES:

-Dave Brubeck official archives and family recordings (Brubeck Editions)
-Columbia Records session documentation and production notes (1959)
-Time Magazine cover story on Dave Brubeck (November 8, 1954)
-National Recording Registry, Library of Congress (2005 induction)
-"The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out" liner notes by Teo Macero
-Newport Jazz Festival archives (1959 performance documentation)
-Grammy Hall of Fame historical documentation
-Marshall Stearns' Music Inn Jazz Roundtable transcripts (August 1959)
-Billboard chart archives (1959-1963)
-Paul Desmond interviews and correspondence archives


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