Brubeck Time

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Brubeck Time
Studio album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Released	February 14, 1955[1]
Recorded	October 12–14 and November 10, 1954
Studio	Columbia 30th Street (New York City)
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:00
Label	Columbia CL 622 CK 47032 Harmony HS 11253
Producer	George Avakian
The Dave Brubeck Quartet chronology
Jazz Goes to College (1954) Brubeck Time (1955) Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955)

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Brubeck Time is a jazz album by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, a rare studio recording from that period of the band, when it was recording mostly live albums.^[4] It was recorded in the fall of 1954, and originally released in 1955 under the Columbia label as CL 622. In 1968, Columbia re-channeled the album for stereo^[5] and re-released it as Instant Brubeck under the Harmony label as HS 11253.^[6] It was later re-released again on CD in 1991 under the title Interchanges '54 as CK 47032, with the addition of four tracks from Jazz: Red Hot and Cool.^[7]

The album features one of the earlier Quartet lineups, with Bob Bates on bass and Joe Dodge on drums. Although now not as famous as some of the band's other albums, in retrospect it has a lot of depth, and those interested in jazz will find it "certainly worth acquiring".^[8]

According to a 1955 letter written by Avakian to Brubeck, the cover was "designed around the Boris Artzybasheff painting which was on Time magazine's cover of November 8th [1954]".