EDUCATION | EXHIBITIONS: ONE LP@LOUD & CLEAR, EDINBURGH: Bob Barry: Photographer

"Well, it’s Dave Brubeck’s Time Out album and I remember hearing it in the… was it the late ‘50s, early 60s? – I’m not even sure now – but it was in that period and I remember how the time changes and it was just one of the most amazing things I ever heard. I had never heard music played like that. 

I was amazed. I remember hearing “Strange Meadow Lark” which was one of the other tunes on there – there was “Take Five”, “Blue Rondo à la Turk” and a number of others but “Strange Meadow Lark” just profoundly struck me.  

It was like one of those songs that you remember for the rest of your life and it makes you feel something that you were feeling, in my case, maybe 50 years ago… or more. I just loved it. I just loved it.  

It was a changer for me – it was an earth changer in terms of my feeling about music.  

I’ve always loved it; I’m a big fan of Brubeck’s and I actually met the bass player Eugene Wright not too long ago and we talked about the album.  

It’s just a great album.  

It was like a pivotal point in American music, for me. 

In those days you didn’t say “hip” you said “hep”. Haha. Yeah. The Brubeck album was like the coolest thing I had ever heard in my life. It was just so way ahead of its time.  

I’d never heard any sounds like that before ever in my life. It just put a hook in me and I was a believer – I was a total believer." 

Bob Barry: At home, Hollywood CA, May 2013 

Dave Brubeck: Time Out 1959  

Bob Barry