The Dave Brubeck Quartet -- Take Five

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David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.

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[shadyalan1]

I just wish I could play an instrument !!!

[WhiteAbenaki]

You notice how much different the piano part sounds with Brubeck throwing in that sixteenth note pick-up? I actually like the album version better without the pick-up note. With the pick-up note and increased tempo it sounds a bit too swingy and less characteristically "Take Five."

What do you think?

[1953jazzman]

One of a tiny number ( you can count them on two hands) of supreme masterpieces of the jazz canon! This tune is rendered so expertly by these musical geniuses that most don't realize how many incredibly complex things are going on here simultaneously! This is why I never tire of or cease to be amazed by this no matter how many thousands of times I hear it!!

[selenahargrove]

yeah

[chopchopize]

what?