Sony Music Jazz Legacy 50th Anniversary Editions
“1959: The Greatest Year In Jazz”
Dave Brubeck ‘Take Five’, Miles Davis ‘Sketches Of Spain’ &
Charles Mingus ‘Ah Um’
Released: June 22nd 09
1959 was the year that changed jazz. Four artists in particular – Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck and Ornette Coleman – made landmark recordings that heralded new peaks in creative brilliance. On June 29th 2009, Sony Music releases three essential ’59 masterpieces now complete with stunning extras, packaging and superb re-mastering
Dave Brubeck – Time Out 50th Anniversary Legacy Edition 2 x CD
1 x DVD Brubeck Documentary with exclusive performance footage
Catalogue Number: 88697398522; Full price
The first jazz album to exceed 1 million sales. Brubeck’s 1959 classic, famous for its revolutionary time signatures & exotic rhythms, gets the all start treatment for its 50th birthday. The Legacy Edition of Time Out features the original album, re-mastered, plus an entire second CD of previously unreleased recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival 1961-1964, rare photos, correspondence and clippings including a typed, signed description by Paul Desmond of his composition Take Five. In addition to the two audio CDs, the set comes with a fascinating previously unreleased documentary featuring recent interviews with Dave Brubeck and extensive historic performance footage.
