Dave Brubeck - Strange Meadowlark

[jenyunt]

this reminds me of christmas

[reid2hai]

Yup! It's a beauty! If you like this, listen to Desmond and Jim Hall play A Taste Of Honey. Simply sublime!

[bulchovike1917]

This is incredible! !!!!! DAMMM, !!!!! BEAUTIFUL SONG!!!

[Kryz73]

best jazz song ever!

[deadassasin1]

223 likes, 0 dislikes gotta love it <3

[fenderbender92]

I bought this album yesterday. I've heard it in it's entirely 6 times since.

[cellojordan]

The whole piece is amazing, but 0:51 to 1:34 is just sublime.

[detanieffac]

Nice but a small complaint..There are a couple of notes in the upper register that are badly out of tune.

[rubbelkdiekatz]

@detanieffac

i'm interested in where you hear notes "badly" out uf tune??

[ChantMacleod]

@007Gumshoe: the cover art is by S. Neil Fujita.

[007gumshoe]

when i was a teenager i loved this painting on this album cover . does anyone know who painted it? I wanted and still would like to put it on the front of my bass drum thnx

[sssGip4sss]

Songs like this just change your life...

[jazzfanwv]

@sssGip4sss Its a JUAN MIRO painting the great spanish artist

[crispycalamari]

2:11 jizz in my pants

[firemario876]

Is this 4/4 time? I'm just asking, this one's timing isn't as obvious as, say, take five.

[douglasstumpf]

@firemario876

the piano intro is so freely played, it IS hard to tell, but once you get to the sax you can tell it is in 2 (2/4)--that's how i hear it anyway.

[dopedealer12]

o wate dis isnt rik ross/!!1!11

[dopedealer12]

yeeer dats dat shit!1 smok a blunt to dis evryday all day

[anonymousman555]

@dopedealer12 Make a video of you smoking to this song just so all the propaganda about pot smokers being dumb and tasteless can get thrown in the garbage.

[Hubcool367]

@anonymousman555 the tasteless bit may go away, but just the way he types is enough to enforce the dumb stereotype...

[anonymousman555]

@Hubcool367 That just made me laugh.

[adamscott179]

this was also MY favorite song of his. i have listened to it for a half a century. it is as good as it gets. 

[dksta2346]

Thank you lost the album shown which I purchased in 1964. Missed this number for years.

[davevanfunk]

@dksta2346 Buy the CD. You know you can't live without it,

[topdog1944]

Looks like the cover of the album, i bought in the 60s. I took it with me in tour of Viet-Nam 1967-68. Great to listen and dream of San Fransico.............

[lpc315]

why haven't I heard of this before? :D :D :D

[pr9301]

One of my all time favorites! The introduction, the tune, the solos, all perfect. But the way he ends the the piece - spellbinding. Still gets me.

[xelavie]

I suggest my self-medical prescription: "so what" and "strange meadowlark" twice a week at least. No side effects after decades of assumption. thanks for posting.

[MRLOVINGOOD]

What a beautiful piece of music.That's all I have to day about this,AMEN AND AMEN.

[ChibiLover213]

Perfection !!

[alexfheind]

this some how brings back alot of memories , but im only 19 , soo i think thats how great this is , thanks for uploading it :)

[harpsicello]

sorry but I just want to know the background graphic... who made this, what's its title, or where to find it? thank you.:)

[djangology499]

@harpsicello The graphic is the album cover of "Take Five" illustrated by S. Neil Fujita

[harpsicello]

@djangology499 Thank you so much!!:)

[njrosatoii]

@djangology499 "Take Five" is just one of the songs on the album. The album is called Time Out.

[GatoradeIsNotJuice]

best song ever from the brubeck quartet hands down. amazing composition. however, brubecks piano solo later in the song was a bit disappointing. overall one of the best pieces ive ever heard.

[Zeokoz]

What I love about jazz is that it seems like most who listen to it are not only a listener but a music aficionado! I've yet to meet someone in real life who actually listens to jazz so it is nice to come here and see comments about how Desmond's entrance at 2:11 is so well accompanied by Wright's bass. Too many people inadvertently listen to music these days and miss out on the beauty of the composition. I'm not complaining but rather just praising jazz and the people who listen to it.

[LouiPetz]

I want to lose my virginity to this piece.

[LWOPP]

Happy 90th Birthday Dave!

[LazlosPlane]

Please don't call this a "song." It is a "piece," or "composition." A song is something that is SUNG.

Thanks.

[rieradubiv]

@LazlosPlane

i agree

[machinsky108]

so melancholy is life..

[thevehicle23]

@machinsky108 ...but why?

[wenkrush]

Like many others, I bought this album because of Take Five and Blue Rondo. When I heard this song, I was blown away and it still has a great effect on me every time I listen to it. This is on my short list of all time favorite songs of any genre.

[rksculley]

The best of Brubeck...

[Antonio2009I]

Beatiful !! Brubeck music is so beatiful, witty, relaxed with a perfect mastering of the rythm and time.

[JohnWLogan]

A Jazz Classic ..

[cdamauser1963]

That has to be the best minute and a halfish of saxaphone I have yet heard--right around 2:08 I feel it coming

[Simbelun]

It's good, but BLUE RONDO A LA TURK is the BEST.

[Maryasha33]

В этой композиции партия фортепиано не затменена ни чем-сказка!! Дейв Брубек-Гений!!

In this arrangement piano is not overshadowed by anything more than a fairy-tale!! Dave Brubeck-Genius!!

[jazzfanwv]

wow neilfraudstrong you have echoed my sentiments exactly i love take five but this really trumped it as soon as i heard it my favorite too

[jazzevans]

i actually want this album not because of take five, but for blue rondo or this. In fact, I first wanted it after hearing about how good it was from a bbc documentry. how glad i am i watched it - this is amazing!

[NeilFraudstrong]

This has always been my favorite song by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and one of my favorite jazz songs ever. I bought this album because of Take Five, but after I heard this song for the first time it became my favorite from the entire album

[cigarsmoker26]

same heer I bought the cd just for take five this song became my favorite. To relax I pack my pipe with some good baccy get in my truck and drive around listening to time out.

[pr9301]

@NeilFraudstrong Absolutely! Couldn't agree more. 

[ChantMacleod]

@NeilFraudstron: Glad to know it wasn't just me!

[poopyloo6]

I love the chords, gorgeous, perfect, logical yet strange. Probably my favorite piece of music ever.

[kdd3051]

This is my favorite song after Take Five on this album. I love the last 20 seconds, so simple, so moving, soft, gentle, soothing.....

[lilianamaya]

I love!

[charliedontsweat]

i think most music like this, especially brubeck is far too under appreciated.

[comeandtateher]

When I was 14, my father bought me this CD for Christmas. At the time I was mostly listening to Kurt Cobain, as teenagers were at the time. My father had always been playing jazz around the house - he played the trumpet himself - but the music never really spoke to me, as it was something belonging to him and not something of my own. That Christmas, when I had my first own jazz record, that is when I found out who I am.

[madeofhemper]

I didn't mean to hit the thumbs down!

That's really a touching tale, to which I relate entirely.

[clairewaldorf2]

I just love when Paul Desmond's tenor sax kicks in. It is one of my favorite moments in all of the history of music.

[clairewaldorf2]

I meant to say in all the history of recorded music, of course.

[shnaggletoother]

Alto sax

[bennysantini]

yep!

[clapady]

Desmond's appearance at 2:11 IS dramatic (it's an alto sax, not a tenor), but credit Gene Wright's simultaneous entry on bass for setting the table. Without Gene, this piece would sound very thin indeed.

[jedimastert0810]

@clapady i agree, but it is also very smooth, which shows the talent of the musicians and their ability to work together and blend. absolutely amazing

[tattoofthesun]

@clapady oh do they ever, set the table with soft heat, they knew that part was dramatic, that it had to be handled right for the transition between instruments

[bloootube]

Back in 1966 a violin major at Oberlin tried to explain complex time to a 16 year old 4/4 Beatle-brain. He reached into to the department store record browser, bought this album, handed it to me, told me to keep it and to study track 3 - "Take Five." I started the album on "Rondo" and then came track 2. Mercy. After that second glistening arpeggio I was hooked. Strange Meadow Lark - in the opinion of THIS strange meadowlark - is Bru's most beautiful composition. It's "timeless!" Thanks, David!