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"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on odd time signatures during his state sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple (5/4) meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello's rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track's name is derived from its meter. The track is written in E♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form.
Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
My uncle requested that I do this song, and so I finally got around to doing it; however, I changed the setup from a quartet to a quintet by adding a fifth instrument: the vibraphone. That is my way to take five. Get it?
Thus, this is the lineup of instruments:
Alto saxophone
Vibraphone
Drum set
Piano
Acoustic bass
NOTE: If I was actually conducting this and having others play it for real, they would be encouraged to improvise as desired when their turn comes to do a solo. However, I prefer to still hear sound, and so I put in what I put in when I got to the solo bits.
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © Columbia Records, and everybody else who owns the rights, and composed by Paul Desmond. It appears on the Dave Brubeck album "Time Out."
Take Five: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
EDITS: Fixed some dynamics mistakes, and made the piano solo an actual solo and not just the chords. Trial and error, you know.
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Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on odd time signatures during his state sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple (5/4) meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello's rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track's name is derived from its meter. The track is written in E♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form.
Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
My uncle requested that I do this song, and so I finally got around to doing it; however, I changed the setup from a quartet to a quintet by adding a fifth instrument: the vibraphone. That is my way to take five. Get it?
Thus, this is the lineup of instruments:
Alto saxophone
Vibraphone
Drum set
Piano
Acoustic bass
NOTE: If I was actually conducting this and having others play it for real, they would be encouraged to improvise as desired when their turn comes to do a solo. However, I prefer to still hear sound, and so I put in what I put in when I got to the solo bits.
This arrangement © me and me alone
Original music © Columbia Records, and everybody else who owns the rights, and composed by Paul Desmond. It appears on the Dave Brubeck album "Time Out."
Take Five: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
EDITS: Fixed some dynamics mistakes, and made the piano solo an actual solo and not just the chords. Trial and error, you know.
Story details:
G-52 organization, Drumbums, Circus of the Superstars, and other such groups © me and me alone.
Some G-52s are joint-owned by me and
Chuong; see my bios gallery for which is which.UN1024s, AIRAF, GSAF, Royal Pagans, and other such groups ©
Chuong aloneD-19 ©
Zanta KeplicusBlue, Toppet Kingdom, etc. ©
BlueMario1016G-52 logo drawn by
zakavatarz; the world of Noah and all associates thereof © him and him aloneCurrent icon of me drawn by
pimpartistAny canon characters mentioned © all who own the rights.
All music, movies, or television shows referenced (C) all who own the rights
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I'll have to check out Everything's All Right.
Rather frustratingly, the first 12 seconds of it were enough to constitute a copyright claim (but not a strike) on my YouTube channel, which resulted in parts of the world not being able to watch it. I ended up muting that bit out just to free it up so there wouldn't be any problems. (It debuts April 27.) It's left me trying to figure out who the artist is, because the artist credited was JUJU. (That's the problem with AU auto-generated copyright detection.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqzBno0tsfI
Rather frustratingly, the first 12 seconds of it were enough to constitute a copyright claim (but not a strike) on my YouTube channel, which resulted in parts of the world not being able to watch it. I ended up muting that bit out just to free it up so there wouldn't be any problems. (It debuts April 27.) It's left me trying to figure out who the artist is, because the artist credited was JUJU. (That's the problem with AU auto-generated copyright detection.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqzBno0tsfI
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