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  • Frustration becomes

  • I have this version on the (unauthorized?) import CD: Someday My Prince Will come. Another Amazon reviewer points to the album The Quartet from the 1961 Europa Jazz LP.

  • p.s. I've listened to this track maybe 1000 time, and never tired of it. I would have to classify it, in my humble opinion, as the single best musical performance ever recorded (notwithstanding the somewhat less than ideal recording quality). I wish I had been there to hear it live, but alas, I had not yet been born...

  • Happy 91st birthday, Dave!

  • the lick :)

    

  • Thumbs up if you're here because of the lick.

  • Its 2011 and this piece is still being listened to.

  • Does anybody know if this performance was ever released on an album? I really want a high quality version of this particular recording.

  • @2600Username im listening to it on vinyl right now!!

    titled: Two Generations Of Brubeck: "Brother, The Great Spirit Made Us All."

  • my dad heard me listening to this, i think he's finally proud of me

  • WATCH OUT! a motha fuckin GENIUS at work here..!

  • brilliant, just brilliant.

  • this is genius.

  • my woman said she won't have sex wit me becouse offff.......

    i just played that track and i don't care about my woman any more :)

  • I wouldn'd say, that it sounds like.... but it has something of modern "Nordic Jazz" and that 1966. I like it very much!

  • It's amazing what he could do with a very non-jazz progression like this. Just brilliant.

  • For anyone who enjoys this piece, check out Buried Treasures...........Forty Days is a minute longer and, believe it or not, even sweeter.......recorded live in Mexico City in 1976, it did not make it on the Bravo Brubeck CD and was but together by Russell Gloyd with other cuts that did not make the Bravo album........among them a remarkable rendition of Take Five........with no drum solo..........but the sax solo from forty days is pure magic

  • This piece is pure magic. It's astounding that this is 50 yrs old and makes the music of today comparatively sound like drivel.

  • I respect opinions, but could somebody tell me what is honestly wrong with this song that would give it 5 dislikes:~~:!!!! outrageous

  • this is wondeful

  • can't find on itunes... help please !

  • @AsachikaSan

    ddj

  • @AsachikaSan

    please check out Hidden Treasures.........cut in 1998 ... cuts that never made the Bravo Brubeck CD from the 1976 live concert in Mexico City. Forty Days is a minute longer then this rendition and, believe it or not, is even sweeter...........there is also an unusual rendition of take five, with no drum solo.........good luck, nm

  • @AsachikaSan get the youtube downloader

  • Great music, thanks to my mother who has such great taste in music,made me a true music lover, this a some of the greatest ,wonderful place in time, thank so much for this...

  • Mastery. Such a beautiful melody. Bass, Solo, Rhythm, How can we have lost this? Joe Morello: The greatest. Friend of Buddy Rich, Louis Bellson, Gene Krupa.

    Jazz is too good for America.

    Love, Phil

  • thank you for sharing this stunning piece.

  • The dynamics in this piece are truly amazing, near classical

  • morello makes me float

  • is there any time worse than sunday evenings? 

  • @Suedwiese monday morning

  • Excellent work on the bass drum for this song. RIP Morello, shine on you crazy diamond

  • I keep returning to this song (and I see that this is the third time I'm commenting on this video). Still beautiful and magical. Paul Desmond should be much more of a household name than he is. Love his playing on this.

  • This a great bass line to play. I need a double bass.

  • Saw him just a few weeks ago! 90 and still a superb showman. God bless ya Dave.

  • I simply can't stop listening to this on replay

  • Great)))

    

  • as to the guy that had one to many shots of vodka!!!!! ill drink to that!

  • Vodka + jazz + sunday evening! I feel like a God!

  • But no to much Vodka or in my case Scotch. But ah yes this song personifies the coolest of the coolest of the jazz mindset/lifestyle/ethos. I'll drink a double and have the lady friend over and talk by the firelight as the rain starts. When it calms to a gentle patter we'll walk the neon slick city streets and feel the exhilaration of the cool clean air and each others company.

  • The intro is amazing. The whole piece is but especially the intro. It reminds me of ravel, who I love.

  • 5 people need 40 days in a mental hospital... Hahaha dislike joke... stupid

  • @C2Dlive I agree!!! This quartet was so creative and talented...ECM owes this quartet a huge debt. So much of what has become know as the ECM sound can be traced back to this quartet.

  • un maestro

  • un maestro 

  • the most talented group of people ive ever listened to, i can honestly tell you taht.

  • Paul Desmond never "played" the sax - he SANG through it!

  • I love the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Im a teenager, but this is kind of jazz is quite a reverie from most music today!

  • Wow, I've never heard this tune before. Up tempo but yet haunting. Thanks.

  • All the more amazing is that this recording so outdoes the original record recording. This take is not only so different from the original soundtrack, but so much richer. One of the most affecting tunes I have ever heard.

  • @carltornell You are correct.

  • So good that it hurts. Best video on youtube?

  • @jameseaster100 You know, there exists this thing called figurative speech, you might want to look into it.

  • immediately favorited

  • every note paul desmond hits,is bang-on, beautiful. they dont make music like this anymore. i was born in the wrong era. :)

  • @lajo12345

    me too

  • every note paul desmond hits,is bang-on, beautiful. they dont make music like this anymore. i was born in the wrong era.

  • I have an idea!!! Instead of everybody acting like a total bad ass behind a computer making feeble attempts to insult each other because of a difference of opinion, we can just sit here and enjoy the fantastic music being played by some of the greatest musicians ever! I get so sick of hearing the same old Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga sucks and should die. If you don't like them, don't listen to them!

  • Paul Desmond = GOD

  • In my humble opinion, THIS is the single most perfect piece of music ever composed and performed! AWESOME!

    There is a shorter version (crummy live recording) of this piece on an unauthorized CD compilation, "Brubeck - The Quartet" that I might like even just a tiny bit better than this version. (But a couple more listens, and this might be my favorite version...) Any one know if this particular performance is on an album?

  • They're like the Weezer of the jazz world...

  • Does anyone have the chords?! Just can´t find a chord sheet... tx!

  • This song sucks... sounds exactly like Hand In Da Paint by Waka Flocka Flame.

  • what are they doing harmonically? this sounds so unusual!

    nevermind its genious!

  • at this 4 minutes of the movie we are become wistful and then raise out in anger which not so beautiful nor can you escape into the music but are brought back to the present of the musicians and the standing there on the stage perhaps appropriate for the ending of this most beautiful work!!

  • Five people are out of their freaking minds!

  • good!great!

  • good?great!

  • wonderful !!

  • ik zou willen dat Dashmond niet altijd met zijn toetertje het mooie pianospel van Dave onderbrak. MAAR: ik ben een uitzondering

  • is whether its 5/4 or 5/8 a serious question????? Get a life, it doesnt matter if it's notated in 5/8 or 5/4- the point is it's in 5. Why does it matter if that's a quarter note pulse or eight note pulse?? Who cares??? Either can be right...

  • @pokerbone Hi it's me again, to be sincere you are complitely right. we both are rigth but it was fine, keep a conversation with people of another country.

    Até mais.

  • Paul Desmond just marinated that shit in sauce

  • @JayIvory87 That's beautiful man...

  • phuck the 5 who disliked this

  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet should be a high school graduation requirement.

  • @RonaldHubbard i know right?!?!?!

  • @RonaldHubbard This man speaks the truth.

  • @stupenderifous The people in my school could have used that education.

  • This tune is in 5/4.

    Straight 5/4.

    Very easy to follow ~

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  • @MarkR1957 I think if I was notating this I'd be writing it in 5/8. I'm not starting a fight or anything though. LOL just saying it feels a bit more 5/8 than 5/4. I'm just thinking of the way the melody would have to be written.

  • @chiamusics

    The drums are like two bars of 5/8 but the feel of the piece is nothing like 5/8 and exactly like 5/4.

    If you have to tap the beat of this piece you'll be tapping quarter notes. In 5/8 you'll be tapping an eight note followed by a dotted eight note (1-and-2-and-uh).

  • @MarkR1957 its 5/8 :)

  • @CreatureMontage Check this out, sonny boy - On Dave's liner notes on the album "Time In", HE states it's in 5/4. I have the sheet music. IT says 5/4. Joe Morello HIMSELF told me it's in 5/4.

    So, I guess Dave Brubeck, Joe Morello AND the sheet music are wrong, and you're right - is that what you're saying?

  • @MarkR1957 no

  • they really know how to use 5/4

  • @goshaix4 Hi i think it's 10/4. Pay attention to the strong part of the measure.

    And about the melody it get's clear.

    Ok............. I don't speak english cause i'm from Brazil but music is a language.

    If you have another idea about it tell me, I wanna learn.

    Bye or até mais as we say here.

  • @JamilLimabass

    im also counting 10, air drumming to |1234,123,123| it feels pretty fast though, 10/8 maybe?

    what kind of counting pattern are you guys feeling?

    btw- lil waynes rhymz r whack, hiz skillz r weak.

  • @JamilLimabass hey its 5/8 and music isnt a language

  • @CreatureMontage Hi man are you all right? 8 is very short. Take a look at how long the melody takes, the time is 10/4 and the melody works around "colcheia" as we call 8 here And jazz is usually wrote in 4,  ex: 4/4 5/4 10/4.

    Até mais.

  • listening to 40 days just makes me wanna build a time machina and go back in time to go see al his performances

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  • EuphoricDan, I couldn't have said it any better.

  • Why isn't this kinda stuff on an FM radio station? :C We have enough Top40's and Classic rocks. A decent station's what we need. :P

  • @AtomicTurkey

    Amen

  • @AtomicTurkey 88.1? thats about it haha

  • @29n9

    I wish it broadcasted in my area. Best I have is college radio.

  • Been listeneing to Dave for more than 60 years. I feel what he is playing. It's like his music goes into my body. Love you Dave.

  • I like to thanks the people who makes thath muzik and poeople who likes it!

  • A recent article in the Camp Verde Bugle said there were beautiful lyrics to this song: "Forty days alone in the desert, days and nights of constant prayer, seeking in the waiting wind an answer to despair"..."Forty days of questioning: Why was he there, in the lonely desert? Forty days of fasting and prayer, searching for his destined role..."

    I'd like to find those lyrics. They sound inspiring.

    cat

  • Meu Deus......ele era um monstro do Jazz.......

    A base erudita de deu uma cara muito especial para suas musicas.

  • Pure jazz pleasure at 0:58. We love you Paul Desmond.

  • I don't understand how 5 of 339 people would dislike this..

  • @avatar2288 they prefer the lady gaga heaheha!!

  • @clebercoxaroots well hey Lady Gaga is at least a musician...she can play piano. BUT people listen to crap like Lil Wayne, and Jay-Z. Makes me wonder what is wrong with people. So limited in their music choices. Sadly most people can't appereciate the beauty in this music :(

  • @xyseth

    dis nigga Bruebeck or whoever tha fuck aint got shit going wit lil waynes rap career, this niga hatin on wayne cause wayne feed his self he aint got to suck another niggas tittie just to eat yo, i just heard about this nigga last week that means hes a nobody another sucka duck ass cracka. i'm off, yo pussy ass niggas can have this shit but before i go i just want to let all yo pussy ass niggas that say lil wayne and jay z aint got shit watch this years grammy's fool.

  • @homeworld4

    I'm not really sure which is worse. The fact that you think speaking quickly with a computer playing pre recorded samples behind you and usually auto tuning and editing it takes more talent than playing and improv-ing off of original tunes on the spot, or the fact that I could barely understand a single word you typed. You pretty much lost your argument the minute you wrote this response because no one can honestly take someone with your grammar seriously.

  • @homeworld4 Comment like that are why INTELLIGENT people hate rap.

    It's not music. It's crap. Those clowns are not musicians. It takes a genious musician to appreciate the subtle complexities of jazz. Oh sorry let me translate in to "gangsta" for you. You a stupid bitch, and dat why you aint heard of diss nigga. Lil' Wayne aint shit. rap ain' music, nigga.

    Don't dis Jazz just because you're too stupid to understand it. Go on and threaten my life via internet now too...

  • @xyseth Sorry for that idiot. It's people like him that make me embarrassed to be a Hip Hop fan sometimes. However, I would have to disagree that rap isn't music. Anytime an older generation witnesses the onset of a new musical genre, they usually dismiss it as being trash because they don't understand it. It happened with rock and roll, it happened with funk and then hip hop. And people see only one aspect of rap music which is unfortunately perpetuated by people like Lil Wayne.

  • @xyseth hahaha are you serious? everything is music, and you havent listened to good rap, im a hardcore jazz man and i listen to rap also

  • @homeworld4 oh yeah and if you ask A MUSICIAN, or an INTELLIGENT HUMAN BEING about music, they will know who Brubeck is. And this is DECADES later. A year from now, Lil Wayne will be a nobody once again.

  • @xyseth I find it both hilarious and sad that you consider Lil Wayne to represent hip-hop music in general just because of your ignorance of the genre. Judging an entire category of music based solely on a single person who CLAIMS to be a musician can hardly be considered fair. Real hip-hop(not the mainstream pop calling itself hip-hop)has many of its roots in jazz, which, ironically, you seem to enjoy. Bashing hip-hop just because Lil Wayne's an idiot only reflects your lack of intelligence.

  • @homeworld4 the fact u only heard him 3 weeks ago means that you have no musical history :) Theres probs thousands of people that have changed the world that you dont know about. And with out jazz, most music u listen to would exist, its pretty much the first Pop music. So go and smoke that through your blind magazine reading howl, 'nigga'

  • @homeworld4 you must not speak of the race in anger!! this we have seen to destroy, the world with Hitler and his speech.

    Countries in flames because of words such as these. all ran away to America to leave this hate

    You must know this thing it is, not strenthg but weakness to say 'my race is the great' for, Jews and Gypsies can know only how this will be if it continues among the people

    yes our lifetimes of Gypsies who are no more can, never be replaced. To say these things again is NO to life

  • @jazzworld1943  Hitler, Jews and Gypsies? Never mind all of that - this is jazz!

  • @xyseth well said i just cant stand people who listen to citchy music then try to convince people who like this genius and jazz in general it just makes me mad

  • @xyseth

    What if someone enjoys both?  Like me. Is that too much to wrap your head around?

  • 5 people gave this a thumbs down. I am not really sure how or why because theis is phenominal. The amount of emotion in the entire band's playing is inexplicable. This is what jazz is about.

  • Awesome even after all these decades!!!

  • Gotta love Joe Morello...  He reminds me of the Lang Lang of the drums, whats he looking at? Not that you could ever tell with those glasses on.

  • @EuphoricDan He was blind by this time stupid.

  • @ItzhakRoxMySox

    No need to be ignorant. I'm actually glad to know more about the man.

    I am sure there is a great deal of knowledge that you haven't stuffed in that ignorant brain of yours. I wouldn't call you stupid if you weren't aware of something.

    Anyway, your asinine behavior aside... Thanks for the info!

  • @EuphoricDan I can understand you not knowing. However, note the attitude you expressed in the comment you posted. At least the attitude you gave off. As if it bothers you that he looks elsewhere as he's playing, drawing comparisons to Lang Lang who is commonly ridiculed in the world of classical music because of his widely unpopular theatrics and alleged lack of musical sensitivity? And the comment about the glasses he wears (to mask the blindness), in a way that's seemingly poking fun at them?

  • @EuphoricDan That's why I was "ignorant," it was in response to your own display of it. However, if your comment wasn't intended to be taken the way in which I did, apologies.

  • Still one of the number one songs for me, ever since that night 15 years ago when i for the first time heard good jazz.

    This is insanely good.

  • @Thekingofpop1958 my private lessons teacher was like "oh, desmond? *imitates his sound almost perfectly*"

  • Great! This is very good stuff!

  • What's incredible is that he's still playing professionally at age 90! And sounds fabulous. What a guy.

  • I wish more people listened to Jazz like this.

  • I wish people still wrote with ideas like this. Almost nothing progressive today that sounds anything like this swings half as well, if you know what I mean.

  • @TheMinor2major I think they just need to be reintroduced to it first. I just happened to stumble upon jazz a couple months ago because i was bored, now i want to find more jazz groups.

  • Simplesmente fantástico. No coments...

  • I was fortunate to have been given 4th row center seats by Dave at the world premier of his oratorio at Lincoln Center . You have to see and hear this performance with the 200-voice choir. You'll never forget it. It was spine tingling.

  • I was fortunate to have been given 4th row center seats by Dave at the world premier of his oratorio at Lincoln Center . You have to see and hear this performance with the 200-voice choir. You'll never forget it. It was spine tingling.

  • this is absolutly fantastic, the only problem is that music like this sint made anymore today...

    which is a shame...

    because its almost perfect.

  • yeah, i've always thought the bassline really makes this piece.

  • Pure beauty!

    (...and the baseline made my day....)

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  • Thank you MR Astrotype! I think that Mr.Brubeck had hired Paul Desmond to be inspired from Paul's improvisation.

  • Correction, not Jesus being tempted 40 days, but fasting and praying 40 days and being tempted by Satan at the end....

  • @kwerna...wow thanks for that input, now that makes the solos even more meaningful and more brilliant!!

  • Brubeck´s group had a very clear sound...envidiable!

  • Out of curiosity, considering the Brubeck Quartet had quite a few songs in 5/4, did Joe have any other basic patterns for the time signature? All the 5/4 I've heard from him has the same "1-2-a-3-4-a-5" on the ride with some snare comping variation. It seems like he might, at some point, get tired of that. Far be it from me to call it plain- I just think he'd have wanted to experiment with that a bit more, and probably did.

  • Not that I haven't wondered the same thing...but would a similar comment about a jazz drummer playing in 6/8 be equally as valid? Ting ting-te-ting ting-te-ting, hi-hat on the even beats, over and over and over...this is what friends of mine who "can't stand jazz" complain about, they say "it all sounds the same." Of course, so does blues, or a classic rock boom-boom-THWACK, boom-boom-THWACK to the uninitiated. The differences, such as w/ Morello's 5/4, are subtle...one has to dig deeper.

  • Your friends' perceptions are too incredibly off. I mean, that's one of the reasons that I love jazz. I don't see how they don't realize how terribly boring an eighth note hi-hat pattern with snare on 3 or 2 and 4 is. Go figure. :\

  • @Isntthisalreadytaken, that statement doesnt make you seem like a smart guy. actually you sound just as stupid as earthgong's friend who can't stand the jazz rythm. It all depends on the musical context and how it's played, i think i could listen to steve gadd/rick marotta/jeff porcaro etc. play basic rock rythm all day, as i could listen to jo jones play basic jazz beats - music can be extremely complicated and amazing sounding even at its most basic and simple form.

  • Yeah that did seem stupid. It's just that that's what I one thing I liked about jazz when I first got into it. Really, if I hated simplicity, I would probably hate jazz because I would get discouraged over my own soloing capabilities. Hell, I could Mozambique all day, myself. As a matter of fact, the other day there was this guy sitting in the band room after Jazz Band waiting on something playing his guitar, and I jammed with him. I mostly played simple blues and rock patterns. It was some of

  • the most fun I've had in a while. This is dragging on a little much; the point is that I've nothing against simplicity. It was just a crappily thought-out comment that pertained to a particular situation, for lack of a better term.

  • @Isntthisalreadytaken fair enough =)=)

  • Agreed. If your friends actually understood how awe inspiring some of the stuff that Morello does is, they might rethink there thoughts. As you said, it's very subtle, and if one lacks proper understanding of the subject matter and how one goes about doing it, it would seem boring. In actuality, it is pretty creative and interesting to watch and listen to.

  • Don't hate, Joe Morello would wreck your shit.

  • True, even now he could mess me up. Monk wore sunglasses indoors occasionally, too so I guess I'll lay off Joe. I was just having a bad day, I suppose.

  • Hmmm could it be he had impaired vision at the time and went blind in the mid 70's?

    Check out his bio....

    I think he pulls if off too.

    I love you Joe, Paul, Eugene, And of Course DAVE.

  • Brubeck was a great pianist and a real jazzman: despite his innovations and classical influences, he was always plaing JAZZ! (this video is a perfect example). Some "jazzmen" nowdays play an undeterminable kind of music - that' s not necessarily bad, but don't call it jazz, please!

  • this song is badass! I can play desmond's solo in flamenco guitar with the background music

  • Oh I like this.

  • This is supposed to evoke the imagery of either Moses waiting to receive the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai or Jesus being tempted by Satan in the desert for Forty Days

    The Saxophone solo is supposed to represent the desert and being alone in it. Personally, I think Brubecks piano introduction, in particular, evokes the essential quality of solitude of being totally and utterly alone. It sends shivers up and down my spine every time I hear it.

  • That, and just the first little lick or two from Desmond. It's like a little sigh let out at the realization of... not exactly hopelessness, but I'm sure you see what I'm getting at. It's brilliant as hell.

  • This is one of the most beatiful tunes I've ever heard. Everything about it is so... Beautiful. And every note in Desmond's solo seems so thought through. Daaamn...

  • I agree. This song is so moving. It give me chills.

  • Adoro este tema, es tan emocionante.

    Son unos genios.

    Saludos Barbarians y Conchi.

  • From Time In. Man, this has always been a favorite. Folks seem to forget this album. So nice.

  • Joe Morello looking too cool.

  • god i love this tune!!!!!!!

  • that was magnificent...the drumming and bass enhanced that superb piano solo

  • That piano solo came out of nowhere. It was so... different. Really enjoyable.

  • hay un tema re movido de jazz qiero saber como se llama el tema, el comienzo es muy popular.

    saludos desde uruguay: gardel, zitarrosa, la cumparsita

  • Debussy?...

  • lololloolol

  • This has to be one of the most heart touching pieces of music I've ever heard...so mmm I don't know if epic is the word...Marvellous piece, thank you