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The jazz police may not always have approved, but the pianist has had the last laugh in the end, embarking on an extended Indian summer that has yielded some of the most sparkling music of his career. Time Out, nevertheless, remains the landmark album, thanks to Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk. Contemporary musicians who regard durable melodies as mere frippery can learn a lot from Brubeck's time-signature experiment. The bonus material, taken from appearances at the Newport festival in the early 1960s, tends to get bogged down in foursquare piano solos, but there's also a DVD that includes evocative interviews.
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