Dave encouraged his quartet to invent new time signatures in their jazz tunes. Brubeck's push led to the creation of the quartet's breakthrough album, Time Out, named for its use of a variety of ...

SMITH: You had some critics giving you a hard time -- this whole thing about West Coast jazz. West Coast jazz is cool jazz, that you guys are cool jazz. When they start saying that, what's your ...

In the hands of the ‘classic’ Dave Brubeck Quartet – with Paul Desmond (alto saxophone), Eugene Wright (bass) and Joe Morello (drums) – pieces from landmark albums such as Time Out ...