Countdown: Time in Outer Space

by Dave Brubeck

Countdown: Time in Outer Space cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1962
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:28
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Teo Macero, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the thematic follow-up to the massively successful 'Time Out', this Columbia Records release continues the quartet's exploration of complex, non-standard time signatures. 'Countdown: Time in Outer Space' explicitly tied its structural polyrhythmic experiments to the cultural backdrop of the American space program.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures, acoustic

Tracklist

  1. Countdown (2:23)
  2. Eleven Four (2:51)
  3. Why Phillis Waltz (2:16)
  4. Someday My Prince Will Come (6:20)
  5. Castilian Blues (2:31)
  6. Castilian Drums (5:18)
  7. Fast Life (2:58)
  8. Waltz Limp (4:14)
  9. Three's a Crowd (2:41)
  10. Danse Duet (3:45)
  11. Back to Earth (3:18)
  12. Fatha (3:47)

Credits

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - primary artist, liner notes, piano, written-by
  • Paul Desmond - alto saxophone, written-by
  • Eugene Wright - bass, written-by
  • Joe Morello - drums, timpani [tympani]
  • Teo Macero - liner notes, producer
  • Franz Kline - painting
  • Frank Churchill - written-by
  • Larry Morey - written-by

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