"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by saxophonist Paul Desmond and originally recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for their album Time Out at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studios in New York City on July 1, 1959.
Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS). Pour a glass of whiskey neat, light a cigar, kick back… and just listen. Wednesday, in advance of Time OutTakes’ December release, Brubeck Editions is unveiling a never-before-heard early run-through of “Take Five,” streaming above. Along with the alternate “Take Five,” Time OutTakes will feature previously unreleased versions of several other pieces from the original Time Out LP, including “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” a piece inspired by a rhythm that Brubeck heard a street musician playing in Turkey while on a State Department tour. Whereas on the final, Brubeck and bassist Eugene Wright play behind Morello’s feature, here the drummer takes the spotlight alone. Seventies Jazz Survivor Alan Braufman Shows His Fire Still Burns on 'Home', 'He Made the World Bigger': Inside John Zorn's Jazz-Metal Multiverse, Deerhoof and Wadada Leo Smith's 'Breakup Songs' Is Musical Democracy in Action. Take Five «Take Five’» is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and originally performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet on its 1959.A Recorded at Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio in New York City on July 1, 1959, two years later it became an unlikely hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. “Take Five,” a 1959 track by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was always a musical oddity: a swinging, instantly catchy jazz piece written in the uncommon time signature of 5/4. starts and ends within the same node. An on-going serialized novella. Make sure your selection
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There’s quartet material from Time Out and Time Further Out, with all their famous rhythmic asymmetries, but also two tracks from the vibrant, lesser-known Bossa Nova U.S.A. and a definitive version of “The Duke,” one of Brubeck’s greatest melodies. Just take five, Dave and Stan and Miles make for grand evening of listening….
About AdaptiveCurmudgeon Start a little conversation now Editors’ Notes This 1966 survey of Dave Brubeck’s Columbia work couldn’t be tighter or more effective. But it was also a huge hit and the first platinum-selling single in jazz history. You could offer a light. Their Take Five hit was the first jazz single to hit a million sales.
On the alternate version, you can hear how the band is still acclimating to the feel of the piece’s 5/4 rhythm.
Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. © Adaptive Curmudgeon.
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