Time Out, lest anybody needs reminding, was the first platinum-selling album in jazz, and the 45 rpm single from it, ‘Take Five’, coupled with ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’, didn't do too badly on the charts either, edging out many of the pop stars of the day for a place on Billboards Hot 100. Altoist Paul Desmond wrote the melody for ‘Take Five’, which to this day has remained the epitome of cool ‘modern jazz’, whistled up by TV producers when they show shots of anything that has connotations of ‘hip’.

So it's more than simply ‘interesting’ to hear the not-so-swinging gestation of this song on Time OutTakes; Morello nervously tapping out a Latin rhythm in 5/4 on his snare rim before swapping to tom toms, seemingly pounding the 5/4 rhythm, counted 1-2-3-1-2, into his subconscious. All the while Brubeck patiently kept things on track laying out chords in the 1-2-3-1-2 pattern that says much about how he patiently nursemaided one of the most famous compositions in jazz into existence. The consummation of another six tunes are also revealed – ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’, ‘Strange Meadow Lark’, ‘Three To Get Ready’ and ‘Kathy's Waltz’ from Time Out that all contain elements that rival the issued masters, while ‘Watusi Drums’ appeared on The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe and ‘I'm In A Dancing Mood’, which the quartet had been playing since at least 1957 (on a broadcast from Chicago's Blue Note), also popped up again in live German radio broadcasts from Hannover in 1958 and Essen in 1960.

In 1942, while studying at the College of the Pacific, Brubeck was recorded playing ‘I've Found a New Baby’ solo – it's on Jazz at the College of the Pacific Vol 2 – and serves as a reminder of how far back Brubeck-as-solo-pianist goes. Perhaps his best solo outing is on his 2004 Dave Brubeck Solo Piano: Private Brubeck Remembers, a heartfelt rendition of songs popular when Brubeck was serving as a frontline GI in Europe. Lullabies, effectively a collection of memorable melodies, is in similar vein and is Brubeck's Parthian shot; an over-the-shoulder glance at melodies that resonate deep within him. Speaking of his classical/religious works, which increasingly absorbed him in his later years, he said he loved to feel ‘goose pimples from music’, and these affecting melodies have precisely that effect, from ‘Brahms Lullaby’, ‘Over the Rainbow’, ‘Danny Boy’ and ‘Summertime’ through to his own originals, ‘Melody for Iola’ – dedicated to his wife and soulmate – ‘Koto Song’, and ‘Softly, William, Softly’ that seem to be Brubeck saying: ‘Remember this of me’.