![]() Thanks for taking the time and let me know what you think. ![]() Right now there are five compilations, each one focussing on on a major jazz label, so there’s Prestige, Blue Note, Savoy, Riverside and Contemporary for now. Two important notes: 1: there’s absolutely no commercial incentive involved here 2: the podcasts are a hundred percent non stop music, so no talking, jingles or add’s etc. the author is Paul Desmond, the inspirer was undoubtedly Dave Brubeck who in 1959. ![]() But only if you think that’s appropriate. Take Five is one of the few jazz pieces to have a 5/4 time signature. I thought, if you shared my enthusiasm, they perhaps could be linked somehow to your blogspot. Initially this was a project intended for Izaak, my son, who’s only two years old right now, but I think they’d be quite interesting for any true classic bop and hard bop jazz lovers. (Specifically the recent Roy DuNann piece.) So first of all: thanks for that! Secondly, the reason for me writing you is that I’ve been quite busy organizing my jazz collection and have compiled and uploaded a handful of homemade radio shows on the podcast platform Mixcloud. It also includes two tunes not heard on the original album: “I’m in a Dancing Mood,” a piece from the Thirties musical This’ll Make You Whistle, and “Watusi Jam,” a trio performance - sans Desmond -based on the piece “Watusi Drums,” heard on the 1958 live album The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe.Hi Steven, You don't know me - and I don't really know you, but I’ve been enjoying your Jazz Profiles blogspot for some time now. The record will be released on December 4th, two days before the 100th anniversary of Brubeck’s birth.Īlong 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. The tapes that make up Time OutTakes originally came to light while author Philip Clark was researching A Life in Time, a biography of Brubeck released this past February in honor of the pianist’s centennial year. Whereas on the final, Brubeck and bassist Eugene Wright play behind Morello’s feature, here the drummer takes the spotlight alone. In his drum solo, Morello sticks close to the rhythm of Brubeck’s “1, 2, 3 1, 2” piano vamp, slowly building up density and excitement as he goes. You can also hear alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, who composed “Take Five,” getting used to improvising on the tune. They play the tune faster than on the familiar take and drummer Joe Morello hadn’t yet settled into the famously relaxed beat that made the five-beat structure feel so natural. ![]() On the alternate version, you can hear how the band is still acclimating to the feel of the piece’s 5/4 rhythm. Wednesday, in advance of Time OutTakes’ December release, Brubeck Editions is unveiling a never-before-heard early run-through of “Take Five,” streaming above. 1959/1961 Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue Rondo A La Turk (45 single version) 3:00. Roughly 61 years after the release of “Take Five” on Brubeck’s Time Out album, the late pianist’s estate will release TimeOutTakes, a new album of previously unreleased alternate versions of pieces from the iconic LP. 1961 HITS ARCHIVE: Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet (45 single version) 2:53. But it was also a huge hit and the first platinum-selling single in jazz history. “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. ![]()
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