BLUE RONDO A LA TURK

Created on 21/01/2002
Latest update on 09/09/2024

Artist: Dave Brubeck
Author: Dave Brubeck
Label: Columbia
Year: 1959

On Time Out, an LP filled with unorthodox rhythm patterns: Take Five in 5/4 and this one in 9/8 has a Bulgarian folk origin. Bela Bartok used it in Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm. Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca is something completely different, covered by Kenny Ball and Ekseption. By the way, as Joe Boyd mentions in And The Roots Of Rhythm Remain ('24 - Faber), Brubeck's Take Five was not the first jazz composition in 5/4. That was Art Pepper's Las Cuevas de Mario, written in 1950, just before he was sent to prison for ten years.

Covers:

1962:

Claude Nougaro [as A bout de souffle]

1967:

Nice [as Rondo]

1969:

Caterina Valente

1970:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer [on the Isle of Wight, their first show ever]

1981:

Al Jarreau [as Round, Round, Round with own lyrics]

1992:

Marcel Dadi

2000:

Catch 22 [as Blue Rondo]

2001:

B.B. King [Live In Nice]

2003:

Brave Combo

After the (unexpected) success of Time Out, Dave Brubeck came up with the sequel Time Further Out, again with deviant rhythms and again with a hit: Unsquare Dance in 7/4; covered by Don Ellis as Pussy Wiggle Stomp.

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