# Time Changes

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Time Changes
| type       = studio
| artist     = [The Dave Brubeck Quartet](/source/The_Dave_Brubeck_Quartet)
| cover      = Time_Changes_album-cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1964
| recorded   = November 1963
| venue      =
| studio     = [Columbia 30th Street Studio](/source/CBS_30th_Street_Studio), New York City
| genre      = [Cool jazz](/source/Cool_jazz), [West Coast jazz](/source/West_Coast_jazz)
| length     = 35:00
| label      = [Columbia](/source/Columbia_Records)
| producer   = [Teo Macero](/source/Teo_Macero)
| chronology = [Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck)
| prev_title = [At Carnegie Hall](/source/At_Carnegie_Hall_(Dave_Brubeck_Quartet_album))
| prev_year  = 1963
| next_title = [Dave Brubeck in Berlin](/source/Dave_Brubeck_in_Berlin)
| next_year  = 1964
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r136012|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
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'''''Time Changes''''' is a 1964 [album](/source/album) by [The Dave Brubeck Quartet](/source/The_Dave_Brubeck_Quartet), based upon the use of [time signature](/source/time_signature)s that were unusual in [jazz](/source/jazz) music.

The whole second side of the album, the composition "Elementals", resulted from a relationship with [Rayburn Wright](/source/Rayburn_Wright), The [Eastman School of Music](/source/Eastman_School_of_Music) and its "Arranger's Workshop" and an impending concert in [Rochester](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York), New York. It was Mr. Brubeck's first [orchestral](/source/orchestral) composition.

==Overview==
"Time Changes" is a continuation of Brubeck's hit albums ''[Time Out](/source/Time_Out_(album))'', ''[Time Further Out](/source/Time_Further_Out)'' and ''[Countdown—Time in Outer Space](/source/Countdown%E2%80%94Time_in_Outer_Space)'', exploring the elements of time in jazz and music, while extending itself into a "do-it-yourself" concerto, which comprises the whole of side two, with orchestral accompaniment.<ref>Original liner notes, Columbia LP CL 2127 –Ted Macero</ref> The cover painting is by the internationally acclaimed American [abstract](/source/abstract_art) painter [Sam Francis](/source/Sam_Francis).

==Track listing==
On the original vinyl LP:

===Side A===
#"Iberia"  - 3:00
#"Unisphere"  - 5:43
#"Shim Wha"  - 4:03
#"World's Fair"  - 2:45
#"Cable Car"  - 3:00
#'Theme From Elementals' - 3:09 (CD only)

===Side B===
#"Elementals"  - 16:35

==Personnel==
All pieces composed by [Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck), except "Shim Wha" by [Joe Morello](/source/Joe_Morello). The album was recorded over various sessions that took place in November 1963.

; Musical

* [Dave Brubeck](/source/Dave_Brubeck) &mdash; [piano](/source/piano)
* [Paul Desmond](/source/Paul_Desmond) &mdash; [alto saxophone](/source/alto_saxophone)
* [Eugene Wright](/source/Eugene_Wright) &mdash; [bass](/source/Bass_(guitar))
* [Joe Morello](/source/Joe_Morello) &mdash; [drums](/source/drum_kit)
* Rayburn Wright &mdash; [orchestra conductor](/source/orchestra_conductor)
* Fred Plaut, Robert Waller &mdash; recording engineers

==External links and sources==
*''https://web.archive.org/web/20121216140255/http://www.davebrubeck.com/live/'' davebrubeck.com
*''http://www.jazzdisco.org/dave-brubeck/catalog/album-index/'' Brubeck discography

==References==
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Category:1964 albums
Category:Albums produced by Teo Macero
Category:Albums recorded at CBS 30th Street Studio
Category:Columbia Records albums
Category:1960s concept albums
Category:Dave Brubeck albums

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