Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet

The first track, Blue Rondo a la Turk, started out sounding like it was gonna be happy but then it turned into the creepy kind of happy like circus music. Its got those jazzy sax interludes so it sounds cool and circus alternating and I like it. I think there's some cool meter changes in there too; the sax sounds 4/4 and the rest sounds triplet or 9/8. This feels like a pretty standard cool jazz album. Each piece seems to have a cool horn lick that's just played over the rhythm section a few times in modulated keys. Its still pretty good, but I'm partial to swing rather than cool jazz and bop and the like.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Walkin'

This album is pretty good. I get a Blues Brothers feel, both from the first track and the album art.There's a few "hep hep" type vocals floating around and I can dig it real good. This stuff is throwing really happy vibes at me. Really nice cover of Boogie Stop Shuffle on here too. Would listen to over and over. It's pretty long too, almost an hour.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra