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Title: The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones, Now! Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1965, Rock, Blues Rock/R&B, London, England Catalog #: PS 420 Condition: VG | Members: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts | Producer: Andrew Loog Oldham
Cultural Facts:
Deep in American Blues: This early U.S. Stones album is packed with covers of artists they idolized, including Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Howlin’ Wolf, showing just how directly the band’s sound grew out of Black American blues and R&B.
Before Jagger/Richards Took Over: At this point, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were only beginning to emerge as major songwriters. Tracks like “Heart of Stone” helped prove they could write original material strong enough to stand beside the blues standards they had built their reputation on.
Brian Jones Era: The record captures the Stones while Brian Jones was still one of the group’s defining musical forces, before the band shifted more heavily toward Jagger/Richards originals and the broader psychedelic and rock experiments of the later ’60s.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time changes
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Title: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Changes Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1964, Jazz, Cool Jazz/West Coast Jazz, San Francisco, CA Members: Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright, Joe Morello | Producer: Teo Macero
Cultural Facts:
Brubeck Keeps Breaking the Clock:Time Changes continued Brubeck’s famous experiments with unusual meters. “World’s Fair” is written in 13/4 time, extending the rhythmic ideas that made “Take Five” and Time Out so revolutionary.
The Classic Quartet: This is the celebrated Brubeck lineup with Paul Desmond on alto sax, Eugene Wright on bass, and Joe Morello on drums. Morello’s ability to make odd meters swing was essential to Brubeck’s increasingly complicated rhythmic compositions.
The End of the “Time” Experiments:Time Changes is generally considered the final album in Brubeck’s celebrated series exploring unusual time signatures, following Time Out, Time Further Out, and Countdown—Time in Outer Space. The ambitious “Elementals” stretches beyond a normal jazz tune into a long-form composition combining Brubeck’s jazz writing with orchestral ideas.
