"Three To Get Ready" by Dave Brubeck is here transcribed from a score which has not much similarity to the way it can be heard on "Time Out". The interplay between piano, sax, bass and drums over a very simple theme can not really be reproduced in MIDI - well, I can't anyway. However, this score is still useful as a point of departure for someone's own improvisations, and even in this version I find the rhythmic adventures and the colourful harmonisation jaw-dropping. Originally, I used a "DC al Coda" notation to replay the original theme. However, it turned out that the score would require three pages anyway, so I cut/pasted the first eleven bars to the end. But then I found that MOZART did not allow the Coda sign to be removed, because it fell on the change of a time signature; so it's stuck there now. Here are some liner notes from the original LP "Time Out" (1959) by Steve Race: At first hearing, "Three To Get Ready" promises to be a simple, Haydn- esque waltz theme in C major. But before long it begins to vacillate between 3- and 4-time, and the pattern becomes clear: two bars of 3, followed by two bars of 4. It is a metrical theme which suits Dave Brubeck down to the ground; his solo here is one of the album's highspots. Recorded on July 1, 1959 at 30th Street Columbia Studios The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck: piano Paul Desmond: alto saxophone Eugene Wright: bass Joe Morello: drums Brisbane, August 2003 Michael Bednarek http://mcmbednarek.tripod.com/