Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo à la Turk download song

What a great recording and mix, sounds crisp even by today’s standards.

New to Jazz, this is one of my favorite joints !

I work in a hotel and we have a bar attached.  Got bad karaoke going on tonight.  This is getting me through it all and then some.  :)

The swing at 1:40 and 6:25. Goosebumps So freaking jazzy!

I was seventeen when this was released. It was fresh and new. I was pretty fresh and new then, myself. Now I'm old and slow, but I still get a charge from this album and especially Blue Rondo à la Turk. This stuff, unlike people, just never gets old.

It's a tad nuts how smooth the timbre of the sax is early in this piece: it almost gives the introduction a classical "chamber music" quality. So clear and crisp. Not only does it show off the control Mr Desmond had over his instrument, but also a feather in the cap to the folks in the engineering booth for being able to capture both sides of his performance so well.

Album covers like this makes me miss and appreciate the days of vinyl and stylus. Aside from being table side at the Blackhawk Jazz Club, vinyl y stylus is the best way to experience the simple complexity of J A double Z. Dave with his Swiss watch-like rhythm, P. Desmond's saxo-conviction, Eugene Wright's and Joe Morello's persuasive bass and percussion beat signatures is unrivaled in this album. Play this album at my dirge.

the critics were brutal when this came up... "there is no swing in it" etc... oh man

The most abrupt yet harmoniously positioned transitions in all jazz.

Great quality recording. Still fresh sounding 57 years later.

"Take Five" is a great tune, but to me this piece is the brightest star on the album.  Brubeck is interviewed on Ken Burns' "Jazz" documentary, and he talks about picking up this 9/4 time signature while in Morocco. The beat count is 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3.  Yum!

Nas' Jereau of Rap brought me here.

Saw and heard Brubeck live in Louisville in 2003. He played well beyond his scheduled 1.5 hours. They had to practically use a hook to get him off the stage. His joy in playing was obvious. He was almost 82 at the time.

It has classıc Turkish music time signature 9/8.

My parents played the crap out of this when I was a little kid. Even now, decades later, I can hum practically every riff, every part! True jazz

So proud to be a Turkish musician living in Concord,CA the birthplace of legendary Dave Brubeck.

That SAX solo... Reminds me again why I'm such a huge fan of this quartet. I've always been impressed with the virtuosity of each and every band member and their ability to blend together. But Paul's playing puts the cherry on top every single time.

This is very far ahead of it's time. Lots of music use this kind of hectic but controlled misdirection now, but for the 50s, this seems really far ahead. Flawless execution too.

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