Time Further Out was Dave Brubeck's follow-up to his hugely successful Time Out, which explored varied time signatures and which Columbia (and Brubeck) thought would be of interest only to fellow musicians. It had been available for about a year before Columbia released ‘Take Five’ as a single and to everybody's amazement (including Brubeck's) it went to Number One on the singles charts. The album sales took off and the rest is history. Time Further Out used meters such as 9/8, 7/4, 5/4, and 3/4, and is remembered for ‘Unsquare Dance’, in 7/4 and ‘It's A Raggy Waltz’, with its melody in four but played in a meter of three, as in 123-412-34. It was a technique the ragtime composers sometimes used (hence tune title) and even appears in parts of Gershwin's ‘Rhapsody in Blue’. It's an album that's every bit as absorbing as Time Out with Brubeck really letting rip on ‘Charles Matthew Hallelujah’ effectively debunking the more staid critics of the time who claimed he couldn't swing. This album was re-released by Columbia/Legacy in 1996, and included one unreleased tune from the sessions plus a live version of ‘It's A Raggy Waltz’. Here, Essential Jazz Classics have come up with two unreleased tunes from the session and have added Brubeck's duet with Charles Mingus from the movie All Night Long plus four live tracks from June 1961. Newport 1958 has not been re-released by Columbia/Legacy, although it is available on several CD releases from online sellers such as Amazon. This version from Phoenix does not have a facsimile cover, which many jazz fans prefer, rather a stock photo credited to Redferns. There is a bonus track – ‘Take the A Train’ – which fits in nicely with Brubeck's set of Ellington related tunes. Included is an engaging version of ‘The Duke’, which was given a kind of immortality when it appeared on the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration Miles Ahead.