cxlvi. BRUBECK, Dave (1920-2012)
Take Five (1959)
DB, piano
Paul Desmond, alto saxophone
Eugene Wright, bass
Joe Morello, drums
(5:29)
from Time Out.
It is one of the great honors and privileges of my life to have worked for this amazing wonderful human being for a couple of months in the summer of 1970, copying his orchestral score for Truth Is Fallen.
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Composed by Desmond, and fashioned for the group by Dave, Take Five was the first jazz single to sell a million copies.
It was this composition that inspired me as a very young kid to explore non-traditional time signatures -- and even today, when I hear something in five or seven, my brain immediately goes all happy. (The Beatles' All You Need Is Love, for example -- in seven) ...
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Here is the transcription, including Desmond's beautifully improvised-structured solo:
Head and out!
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