Among the first jazz records The Leopard ever listened to in a semi-serious way was Miles Davis' seminal Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's My Favorite Things and Dave Brubeck's Time Out. Miles' album made me appreciate the sensual intricacies of improvisational music, Coltrane the fiery expression, and with Brubeck, the seemingly limitless possibilities of the medium.
Tunes such as "Blue Rondo A La Turk", " Kathy's Waltz" and the massively popular "Take Five" expressed what jazz could be, and where it was going. it could be crazy popular (Time Out was the first jazz recording to sell over a million copies), but also challenging. Brubeck was a visionary.
As Donald Fagen Of Steely Dan immortalized in his tune "New Frontier":
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him tooHe's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier".
Click here for the Dave Brubeck composition "Blue Shadows In The Street".
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