This is a jazz album for people who say they don't like jazz. The arrangements are very carefully planned - or they seem to be. You can hear and follow the tunes in all of these instrumental pieces. After a while you could even sing a long to them.
Probably his most famous tune, Take Five is on this album but it doesn't really stick out as the only decent track, beguiling buyers to purchase the album like the deceitful Vogue on Madonna's catastrophic soundtrack I'm Breathless. No, every track has merit and its own personality.
Perhaps its secret is Brubeck's trademark juxtaposition of rhythm and unusual time signatures. They keep you on your toes so even if his harmonic choices grow a little old there's still some mileage in his percussive imagination.
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