Ambassador of cool

摘要

All that is truly original appears ugly at first.' The author of this aphorism is unknown, but its veracity must have been self-apparent to Columbia Records marketing executives, who for a year blocked the release of The Dave Brubeck Quartet's groundbreaking 1959 jazz album Time Out on the grounds that the label 'didn't put out music that people can't dance to,' reported Charles J Gaines of the Associated Press.