Dave encouraged his quartet to invent new time signatures in their jazz tunes. Brubeck's push led to the creation of the quartet's breakthrough album, Time Out, named for its use of a variety of ...

Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has abandoned his quartet. After 16 years spent in demonstrating that jazz can be for the mind as well as the emotions, Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) decided to cut ...

By KIRSTEN BOLTON FOR ARTSPRING Dave Brubeck’s game-changing 1959 album Time Out is an American masterpiece of “west coast cool jazz” that resonates to this day. The odd time signatures, […] ...