Three to Get Ready

Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959 · Alternance 3/4 – 4/4

Context

Brubeck plays on the alternation: the piece begins as a waltz, then alternates two measures in three and two measures in four. It is one of the pieces in unusual meter on Time Out.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), West Coast. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Take Five (1959)
• Blue Rondo à la Turk (1959)
• Strange Meadow Lark (1959)
• Kathy's Waltz (1959)
• Everybody's Jumpin' (1959)
• Pick Up Sticks (1959)

Sources

• EN: Time Out (album)

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