Most people may not realize it, but for most of the song the saxophonist is playing incredibly quietly. It takes great skill to be able to play with a full, round tone at those volumes. It is so quiet on the sax track that you can hear the keys clicking and his fingers touching the brass sax.
I play the Alto as well, and I can vouch. It takes YEARS. YEARS of experience to the point where someone can make the saxophone’s tone even across the range of octaves and notes. Let alone quietly with a full sound, and a mysterious twist on the whole thing. There’s alot more that goes into the saxophone than just playing that many people don’t realize. He’s truly an amazing saxophonist.
Thank you for pointing this out to us non-sax players. Just to keep things clear for people new to jazz, Dave Brubeck is the piano player. As a non-sax player, I don't know the name of this amazing sax-player. But he's great! Just from listening to this song for most of my life, I always thought Dave Brubeck was the sax player. So for young, and older, people who read these things....Know your Jazz!
I was 8 years old when my uncle John Goggie introduced this song to me, to say i was blown away is a understatement, now I'm 70 and my grandson Tyler has informed me that he's into jazz, to which I replied "Dave Brubeck, Take Five!" he turned to his iphone and typed it in, listened and fell in love with it....greatness knows no bonds.
This was my dad's favorite song. When he was young he had the Sax 🎷 down solid. Also could play the piano part. .. never had a music lesson in his life....he was the best musician and the smartest person I've ever known. He died of dementia.....one day before he died I played this for him. He knew exactly what it was and this song gave him comfort like it does for me now.
I am 68. I first heard this when our history teacher played it to relax us before a test. I was 16 at the time and it made a lasting impression on me. Truly a work of art.
I love this sound. I'm 78 now but it brings back being 20 again. It actually feels like 1965- a special time when there was wonder and hope. Now and then, when I get tired of the current madness, I turn out the lights for a while and listen.
I'll bet that you didn't know that Paul Desmond donated all of his royalties from "Take Five" to the Red Cross. I sometimes listen to this tune over and over; I don't know how many times....
Gonna be 95 years old friday. I began to love jazz in the 60‘s. I heard this song in a bar in London and spend my life to jazz. I learned to play the sax. Crazy how life takes you. Thanks for all the good wishes!
This was one of My dad's favorite tunes. Today, June 11th, would've been his 91st Birthday ... Happy Heavenily Birthday Dad. Playing / Listening to this for You. I love and miss you.
C’était une des chansons préférées de mon père également, j’ai baigné dans cet univers musical depuis toujours, il est parti en 2006 et je continue d’écouter les musiques qui lui plaisait et nous plaisaient à tous les deux pour avoir pu partager cela avec lui , merci papa de m’avoir fait grandir dans cet univers magique et tellement talentueux 🥰🙏🌟🌟🌟
Eugene Wright, the bassist here, died December 30th 2020 at 97. He was the last living musician from the Time Out album (the one this was on- if you only know the Infinity commercial song, check out the track "Blue Rondo ala Turk", a work of genius). RIP.
@@Rhythmicons good god, why is there always someone who has to inject politics into absolutely everything? Yes, politicians are dickheads and clowns, we all know that. But there is a time and a place for mocking them and in a reply to a comment somebody made about paying their respects to a man who passed away on a completely non political video is not it.
Gonna turn 265 years old this saturday. I came from outer space and traveled to earth and when I heard this song in a bar in New York I immediately fell in love with jazz. Now I'm playing sax in outer space and my friends love it.
A-Freakin-MEN, brother!! And Smooth Jazz is great too...can't _tell_ ya how many of the smooth jazz artists have gotten MAJOR influences from classic jazz artists. (Thinking Wes Montgomery in particular...even the great Pat Metheny was influenced by Wes!) An Bob James has his masterpiece "Nautilus"...said to have been sampled over *70 times* in rap & hip-hop songs! Long Live *JAZZ* !!! BTW -- Enjoyed me some Ray Schinnery at Terra Blues in NYC (Bleecker Street)...TH-cam this guy -- true jazz fans will _not_ regret it!!
The greatest saxophone solo and the greatest jazz song in history. I was so privileged to be able to see these guys play live one time. As a sax player, what a treat that was.
So, famously, Dave Brubeck said that the group never intended for this song to be as famous as it became. Paul Desmond had a lick he wanted to play around with, and they used the opportunity to give Joe Morello an overdue drum solo. So, Dave and Eugene kinda took a backseat while Paul did his thing, and then Joe got his solo. But Joe could have gone nuts here. This is the era of Buddy Rich and Art Blakey. Drum solos were marked by how fast and how hard you can bash everything. For one of jazz's most influential groups, in the group's most famous song- a jazz standard and by extention, arguably one of the most famous drum solos in jazz- Joe Morello's solo was so simple, a middle schooler on a PlayTek My First Kit could play it. Joe could have gone nuts. He could have gone ferral for three minutes Whiplash-style. The team gave him a blank check to flex. He didn't. He decided to just... he just vibed out, man. They say jazz is about the notes you don't play. In that case, this is the greatest jazz drum solo of all time.
That is extremely well thought out and well spoken my man. I thought this was Buddie Rich for a long time the drums are so bad ass, standout, subtle, masterful, and exquisite!
Kathryn, i like your comment ,, Your dad likes class , this divine jazz piece of music will still be played in eternity i was 16 years old when i first heard this master piece , now im 76 years young i still adore its utter magic lol Jane xx
@@oughtonoughton2634 parfaitement raison et un pur chef d'oeuvre moi j ai 74 ans et jel écoute tous les jours bravo Dave et son quarquet Claude progni
I am a big fan of jazz since I was a young girl and when I wanted to reach out to people from a different generation or culture we were all you united and in better mind sets while engaging with jazz!
This was 1 of the 1st songs my father played for me when he introduced me to jazz, I early pre- teens 12/13, I'm 43 now.. Thank you PaPa,may u rest peacefully..
My father was a big Brubeck fan, I didn't get to appreciating Jazz until listening to Steely Dan warmed me up to it. I gave my dad some Donald Fagen records (which he seemed to appreciate) and I have started listening to more of my dad's music. He passed away recently and I made sure to keep his vinyl albums from his youth as a keepsake. I also made sure to save some of his CDs to add to my listening. I miss my dad but I can only imagine he is in the same place as Dave Brubeck and many of his favorites. Take five is such a delightful song to listen to, I don't know how anyone could dislike it. I just wish that I would have given it a chance much earlier in my life. I guess it is just a matter of refining tastes in music that comes with age.
As soon as I hear this...I am instantly taken to a large urban city in the 70's... nighttime... driving to a jazz club... surrounded by beautiful people listening to wonderful music. I wish it lasted for hours...it's a masterpiece.
I'm not primarily a Jazz guy. I'm more into Heavy Metal, Disco and Pop. My Dad introduced me to Jazz as a kid. He claimed that he paid off some guy at the hospital I was born at so the first music I would ever hear was "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. He showed me John Coltraine, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald and George Gershwin. I discovered Brubeck through this very song. My father and me, we don't get along the best. We are doing OK, but stuff happened. We are working on it. But no matter whatever happens, Jazz will be a thing we both enjoy. Admittedly him more than me, but still. Just a few notes can mean so much.
In the 7th grade, every time my class got detention, my teacher played this and we couldn’t talk while it was playing or else he would start over. The class purposely got in trouble just to listen to it again and again and I can say. We definitely enjoyed this masterpiece. Getting detention was a win-win situation.
My mother just recently passed on 4/20/23, and she was a strong jazz fan. So hearing this is bringing happy tears to my heart. I can see and hear her truly enjoying this beautiful piece. RIP mother this is for you.❤😢🙏🏾
I have to agree. I thought I knew jazz until a few years back, and listened to some stuff from Delmark Records and other places. Love Brubeck, but there's so much more out there!
My late Mother introduced us to this music when we were young. Now a Happy Grandmother, I heard my neighbor playing this last night and I instantly thought of my Beloved Mother who loved Jazz. RIP Jean 3/25/2020
Her soul is speaking to you through this piece of music. That is what music and jazz is; The energy of past lives pushing through the boundaries of the present. R.I.P Jean!
This song means so much to me. My grandmother was a huge jazz enthusiast. She had loved jazz all her life. Every year, she would travel all over the country to various jazz venues and festivals. She always really loved Dave Brubeck, I believe he was one of her favorite artists. This last summer, she had a heart attack. It initially looked pretty good, she seemed like she was on her way to recovery. However, things didnt go to well after the stent. One morning, my dad called me and told me that it wasn't good and she only had a few hours left. I stayed their the whole time, with her, talking to her. When the doctor unplugged her life support, her breathing started to get shallower. As she left us, we put on Pandora Radio, and the first song to come up was Take Five. This song played her out of her life. She had had so many surgerys and hip replacements, and her body was just weighing her down, and the meaning of the song and the concept of "take five" is just so perfect. It was time for her to just take five from this life. I love ya Grandma :)
Your english is amazing. The story is moving and beautiful. You seem to be a very worthful being. You pay so much attention to all detail. You sort of express yourself through your language. I admire you man.
@@aldenico8036 j'adore également Éric Satie peut être un peu Mélancolique mais ça dépend des gens , pour ma part je me régale et je ne suis pas triste du tout !.....
when i was a wee lad my father showed this to me and i fell to my knees and tears started flowing from my eyes for i had never heard anything so beautiful as this song this was 79 years ago thank you papa you really saved me from my deep depression all those years ago may you rest in peace
My Dad has passed on but, I still remember the day that he went to the Jazz Festival at Travis Park in San Antonio Texas and came back bragging how amazing and awesome Dave Brubeck sounded on stage playing Take 5. It made me pick up the sax again and start right where I left off from the high school jazz band.
@@bluedingo1186 It was in 2008 and my Dad passed away in 2012. Dave Brubeck was celebrating 25 years and was performing on the Bud Light Stage and the festival is called Jazz SA Live at Travis Park and is held every single year but, was canceled last year cause of the Covid thing. Every year they bring out the best Jazz groups in the world.
8 years old when my papa started playing this song on the album. Scratchy record player, twilight as the cool breeze blew through the curtains. I am transported every time to calm and bliss. Even at 70. Good stuff.
I still recall (at age 78 recalling is tougher than it usta be) the first time I heard this. It was a single on the jukebox in the Hilltopper Café across Center Street from the campus of Western Kentucky (then) State College in Bowling Green. It was late summer-early fall, 1959. It had been released as a single throughout the Nashville market of which BG was a part. I and a whole, whole lot of other Western students who ate there put a lot of dimes into that juke box to play what was fast becoming a monster hit on campuses around the region. I was in the café near-daily, since I lived in a $15-a-month basement room in the rooming house next door. It became a campus hit nationally two years later. The record in the café wore out and had to be replaced -- as did the one in the student center grill jukebox -- as I recall. I bought the album and later bought it again after I loaned it to someone who failed to return it. Still have that second vinyl album all these years later (and about 3 other DBQ vinyls) -- plus the classic on cartridge tape and CD albums that I have picked up along the years. Regret never having seen the quartet in concert. That's getting to be a long time ago -- and every year many young people discover Brubeck and Desmond and Morello and Wright and "Take Five." Maybe there's hope for the world, after all . . .
My dear joe, i will be only 56 next saturday but i realy believe i was close to you this late summer-early fall of 59! My french parents were still living in Marocco and i was'nt still an idea. Is that possible? Of course yes! Many thanks to you for sharing this pure emotion. It adds to the listening of this masterpiece.
you always wonder how a song was first listened to in its original time period and what it felt like to listen to it for the first time, what a lovely testimony to this song's first audience. thanks so much for writing.
A most excellent piece of music. I’m compiling a playlist of 20th Century Classic Tunes for my granddaughter since she’ll never get to experience it. This is most certainly on the list with the ‘50s compilation (going decade by decade.)
I first heard this in a cab, I had listened jazz before, but this was the piece that really made an impact on me and got me deep into jazz. After listening lots of it, I still believe there is no better group than The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
When you have a chance check out Cannonball Adderley a tremendous and versatile musician, Great music my mommy introduced me to when I vwss very young 4 years old and then the private schools I attended included multiple genres of music and jazz music was on the top of the list for listening, concentration, creativity and calmness. To bad most younger generations cannot understand what it means to have calmness when trying to resolve conflicts or develop strategies to understand how to be humble!
The fact that no one mentions that this was actually composed by Paul Desmond, not Brubeck, and arguably the most iconic part (the saxophone) is also played by Desmond makes me kinda sad, he deserves more recognition for his amazing job on this track.
@@PedroCunha23 I remember reading somewhere that Paul Desmond actually wrote that tune to showcase the drummer, who then played his solo beautifully cool. Like, really cool. Yeah...😎
My Dads favourite tune, we had this playing at his funeral on the way in and out. I'm hooked on it now, so many memories of Dad listening to Dave Brubeck. 😊
This is so bizar. Haven't listened to this piece for a while, because.... It was one of my father's favorites, and we played it three years ago at his funeral on the way in...
2 years ago today my Daddy passed away. This is one of the last songs I PLAYED FOR HIM. He was 80 years old and loved music, especially jazz. This is OUR SONG now.
He had a great ear.My Uncle Frank Messina who adopted me along with my brother and sisters was a great saxophone player I always think of him when I listen and cry because I never understood as a kid his musical skills.
Morello is my hero. My favorite drummer of all time. That solo was beautiful. Literally. Not many drum solos can you say that about, but that was a thing of beauty. There's more to playing drums then playing as many strokes as fast and loud as you can.
i'm interested in what you think of alan dawson who also played with brubeck? another understated drummer who had an insane ability - he taught at berkeley in boston.
Hidden Talent Amen, brother! I've only started properly listenin' to jazz in the last year and it's totally changed my life and how I listen to any kind of music now!
You don't need to be a jazz fan to enjoy this. This is universal and will be played as long as there is music. Have loved it since it hit the U.K. hit parade way back when. Regards to all Brubeck fans.
I'd be honored if some jazz (and non-jazz) fans would take a listen to my acoustic performance of WATERS OF MARCH (keyboard & vocal, English lyrics) on my YT channel in tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim... live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and peace.
@@lucatopala1275 Thanks Luca. Please play Le Martinique by Chris Barber and Postman's Lament by Ken Colyer. It might be of interest to you. Kind regards.
@@lucatopala1275 Hi Luca. Did you ever play the two records i recommended? Le Martinique by Chris Barber and Postman's Lament by Ken Colyer. Kind regards. October 2022.
I dedicate this song to my Father, Daddy you are gone, I miss you like hell but you are not forgotten. Thank you for giving me a love lesson and appreaciation for Jazz.
I remembered my first time hearing this song, it was about 10:30 pm I was leaving work, it was around December close to Christmas and the taxis are going by, and everything just felt right, and a guy on his sax was playing this song, and ever since that night in Manhattan, every time I play this song it reminds me of Manhattan at night with all the bright lights. I love this song.
J T hey J T not sure if that's a complement, or you're saying I snagged a paragraph from on the road. but regardless it a true event that happened in my lifetime back in 98, no add living my friend.
'Take Five' - "the biggest-selling jazz single ever" , composed by Paul Desmond and recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for its 1959 album Time Out . Dave Brubeck: piano Paul Desmond: alto saxophone Eugene Wright: bass Joe Morello: drums
MY " IDOL" , ACTUALLY WAS TAUGHT HIS " SUBTONE" TECHNIQUE ON THE MOUTH PIECE. GOT IT REAL WELL, ON A BERG LARSEN 110/1. METAL & # 4 OR 4 1/2 RICO, TILL JAW SURGERY DENIED ME THE ABILITY TO " DROP" LOWER JAW FOR "THIS SOUND". OH WELL. "QUE SERA, SERA". VERY FORTUNATE TO STILL PLAY THOSE HIGH FAKE NOTES TO THIS DAY, W/ NO " JAW LOCKING" & VERY LITTLE " CLICKING. SWITCHED TO "BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1 & ROYAL RICO # 3> SAVED MY PLAYING LIFE.
A lot of people commenting their age and they're so 90+ young! Well here I am, an odd one out! A 35 year old kid, loving and admiring this masterpiece. I chanced upon this about 10 years ago. And this is me here in December 2024!
Saw Dave Brubeck twice in the early 1960's in Jacksonville, Fl, when he was on tour. I was in the 7th and 8th grade and a budding musician. I will never forget those performances, especially Joe Morello's drum solo. Man, I can still see and hear it now. Age 69, and still playing. Smooth West Coast Jazz.
For the longest time this song echoed around in my dreams and I could never remember the name, just the beat and that it made me feel good, finally knowing is a gift. What a wonderful song
Born in 63'. This is so familiar. I feel all of the warm fuzzys of my "Wonder Year memories and safety and love; as I listen, the anxiety of today just drifts away.
My brother introduced me to jazz in the late fifties, traditional and modern. Dave Brubeck's music was (still is) awesome. Same goes for Chris Barber's and Acker Bilk's music.
Bit of trivia...Dave Brubeck assigned everyone to compose some original music. To spark creativity, he gave different time signatures to each person 3 (3/4), 4 (4/4) and so forth. Paul Desmond was told take 5 (5/4) time. Paul wrote 'take 5' on his notepad as a reminder. Later he decided that was a good name.
jjohnston94 I'm not a musician, so I can't answer that directly. I'm under the impression that the melody - the basic structure - is written. The musicians improvise the chord changes - my understanding at least, and apologies if I got that completely wrong. Maybe a musician here can comment on this.
StereoSpace Well, I was a bit of a musician years ago, but a crappy one, but I can tell you you've got it backward. The chord progression is the foundation and the melody is improvised. But I would still like to know how much of each is actually put on paper.
First heard this when I was a kid and I knew I was listening to something special. I guess that's hard to believe but its true and I'll be 70 soon and I still feel the same way about it.
I'd be honored if some jazz fans would take a listen to my acoustic performance of WATERS OF MARCH (keyboard & vocal, English lyrics) on my YT channel in tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim and the arrival of another March... live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and peace.
I was playing this on my high school's piano in their orchestra room, when two of my friends decided to do an improv poetry slam on top of me playing. Needless to say I was dying laughter the entire time. I forgot what the slam ended up being about, but goddamn it was fun.
I was 4 years old when i first heard Take 5. Thanks to my grandma! She introduced me to some good music. It brings me back to strolling in NYC on a cool spring day. Love you grandma rest in peace 💛
My uncle died a few hours ago from an cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old .. he told me that this melody is the best he heard in his life. Rest in Peace my uncle i hope to see you someday. Thanks for the memories and thanks for the guidance to make me a better person.
Darth Vader I lost one of my uncles when I was younger, probably the most influential man in our entire family, it's interesting to think how different things would have been if he were still here today, but it seems like a part of me died that day to. May your uncle Rest In Peace as well, friend.
That drum solo marked a whole generation of drummers. Led Zeppelin 's John Bonham gave credit to Joe Morello's style, even his bare hand drum style came from here.
My wife bought me a set of Edifier R1280T bookshelf speakers for my birthday this week and I was searching for something to test out the fidelity of its sound. Now this track is so crisply clear with the right amount of boom, twang, and snap. My ears feels like it's been slathered in honey and got shipped to heaven. God I need a drink...
Yeah, a lot of the Pop stuff recently may have a catchy melody but are missing the feeling. Jazz has catchy melodies and feeling, along with many other great genres like rock and blues.
This song was actually quite popular in its time. In fact, it's the best-selling jazz single of all time. The other hit on the record, Blue Rondo a la Turk... well, if you aren't familiar with it, you should look it up. But it was also a hit.
I pulled this song up for my aunt in the hospital, she cried, loved it... she said, "reminds me of my father, I miss him!" Me too auntie, I miss grandpa too, great New Orleans musician!!! ❤❤❤❤
BELKIS i like your comment , this divine classic is so adorable it all folds into a state of genius composing , ive adored this since its beginning i was 16 years old when i first heard it now im 76 , its a long time to be in love xx Jane xx
In fairness most people are not into jazz including myself but this tune is timeless,this and stranger on the shore I could listen to every day,just marvellous pieces,greetings from Ireland.
I'm in complete agreement. Jazz, in general, just doesn't appeal to me but this is one amazing piece of music. It's incredible how many people instantly recognise it.
Isn't it amazing how we can voluntarily access such masterpieces in today's world through this magical thing called the internet? Just imagine being in those days when it is considered lucky to find something as good as this in the local store...
@Donna Clemons Wow, I've always been wondering how it was really like to have a mountain of physical copies lying around... But although our technological advancements granted us the privilege of being able to access any kind of tune/genre with a few simple clicks, I reckon that at the same time, we've lost the sort of... satisfaction, the appreciation of actually possessing a precious copy within one's grasp. Furthermore, I oftentimes notice how adults in their 40s and beyond have a tendency to stick to a favorite song that accompanies them in the midst of their grievous times for years, maybe even decades, whilst most adolescents of today - including myself - stick to a favorite song for merely a few days before they're fed up with it, presumably due to the fact that people in my age group tend to take the convenience of immediate access to trillions of songs over the internet for granted. But such are things in life. Good things accompany bad things like Yin and Yang, for this is how nature has decided to balance things out in this world. :) Nevertheless, it still leaves me wishing that I was born "in those days", to truly cherish the kind of music in which artists actually put their heart and soul into their passion, rather than having the musical gems of bygone times obscured by talentless compositions that only serve as greedy money grabs.
This actually strikes my mind everytime I hear ppl talking about "the great past times"! Dude, I get it, 80's were awesome, but.. We got the internet baby :D
There were plenty of record shops back in the day. It was a great way to buy music. Going through album cover's some with reviews on the back "favorable of course ". Listen to the music it was great.
Because experimental stuff like this will always be a niche thing. Which is good as it leads to better jazz music, but also pretty much kills jazz as pop music.
+fixed gear Of course they do, and I can mention even more - but people like this are too stuck up to actually look for new music they like and instead judge on what they think is right.
Most people may not realize it, but for most of the song the saxophonist is playing incredibly quietly. It takes great skill to be able to play with a full, round tone at those volumes. It is so quiet on the sax track that you can hear the keys clicking and his fingers touching the brass sax.
I play the Alto as well, and I can vouch. It takes YEARS. YEARS of experience to the point where someone can make the saxophone’s tone even across the range of octaves and notes. Let alone quietly with a full sound, and a mysterious twist on the whole thing. There’s alot more that goes into the saxophone than just playing that many people don’t realize. He’s truly an amazing saxophonist.
Thank you for pointing this out to us non-sax players.
Just to keep things clear for people new to jazz, Dave Brubeck is the piano player. As a non-sax player, I don't know the name of this amazing sax-player. But he's great!
Just from listening to this song for most of my life, I always thought Dave Brubeck was the sax player. So for young, and older, people who read these things....Know your Jazz!
@@nicot9305 Paul Desmond is the saxophonist. Eugene Wright is on bass, and Joe Morello is on drums. Brilliant musicians, the lot of 'em.
@@johnderouen1038 Wait. So that's the Paul Desmond who wrote this song? Thank you!
I can also vouch that playing piano or lower on a alto sax is very hard to get a good tone.
I was 8 years old when my uncle John Goggie introduced this song to me, to say i was blown away is a understatement, now I'm 70 and my grandson Tyler has informed me that he's into jazz, to which I replied "Dave Brubeck, Take Five!" he turned to his iphone and typed it in, listened and fell in love with it....greatness knows no bonds.
tyler's a fine man, sir
Wow
Funny, some woman had the exact same story 4 months ago xD
Well done, keep it going!💜
your grandson has great taste
This was my dad's favorite song. When he was young he had the Sax 🎷 down solid. Also could play the piano part. .. never had a music lesson in his life....he was the best musician and the smartest person I've ever known. He died of dementia.....one day before he died I played this for him. He knew exactly what it was and this song gave him comfort like it does for me now.
You made me cry when I read this comment
WOW. That's so dope. May he #RIP 🙏🏿❣️
thank you for sharing this memory with us :)
This reminds me of my dad, who died at 95 of dementia. He loved his jazz, big band etc. almost to his last day
sorry, god bless
This is one of the best jazz pieces ever. Hell, one of the best recordings ever. Been a jazz fan for almost all of my 79 years and this tops my list.
COMPARED TO WHAT?
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Yussef Dayes... Listen to his live in Malibu
I'll be 81 in 12 days, and it's always been my favorite too! How about the Herbie Mann at the Village Gate album. Been lovin it since 1964
God Bless Ya!! You may be 79, but age is just a d@mn _number_ ...especially with these *timeless* classics!!
I am 68. I first heard this when our history teacher played it to relax us before a test. I was 16 at the time and it made a lasting impression on me. Truly a work of art.
what a cool teacher
Cap
Are you 69 yet
And did you pass the test?
@@donaldmackay4015 Point on. Well put.
I love this sound. I'm 78 now but it brings back being 20 again. It actually feels like 1965- a special time when there was wonder and hope. Now and then, when I get tired of the current madness, I turn out the lights for a while and listen.
I so loving 👍 agree100percent percent
This was one of my late grandfather's favorites. I took care of him through dementia. I'd hand him a drink and play it. Best times.
I'll bet that you didn't know that Paul Desmond donated all of his royalties from "Take Five" to the Red Cross. I sometimes listen to this tune over and over; I don't know how many times....
I recognized this song from hearing it many times. I didn't know the name of it until about ten years ago.
AMEN!!!
Gonna be 95 years old friday. I began to love jazz in the 60‘s. I heard this song in a bar in London and spend my life to jazz. I learned to play the sax. Crazy how life takes you. Thanks for all the good wishes!
Happy 95!
Le Carl love to hear it, congratulations of life and having a great taste in music ! :D
Thank you! Be blessed! 🎷🎶
Amazing story. Happy 95th!
Don't lie about your age
This was one of My dad's favorite tunes. Today, June 11th, would've been his 91st Birthday ... Happy Heavenily Birthday Dad. Playing / Listening to this for You. I love and miss you.
Happy heavenly birthday to your dad
HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY PRAYERS FOR YOUR DAD
C’était une des chansons préférées de mon père également, j’ai baigné dans cet univers musical depuis toujours, il est parti en 2006 et je continue d’écouter les musiques qui lui plaisait et nous plaisaient à tous les deux pour avoir pu partager cela avec lui , merci papa de m’avoir fait grandir dans cet univers magique et tellement talentueux 🥰🙏🌟🌟🌟
Well that hit harder than it should have. Expletive. Rip good dads
Também me lembrei do meu pai. 😭
I couldn't find this song for ages. So I just typed in "That one jazz song" and now I'm here. The internet is amazing!
Just wondering...how many remakes have there been of this *iconic* song???
@@pjmills8832 How many Jazz musicians are there? 🤗
Yo también tenía años buscando esta canción y la encontré en un mix de gin fizz instrumental
😂 I hummed it into Google and got the ska version by Val Bennet. I knew it from Jacob millers version ( standing firm)
Genius! Mee too... 🎉
Eugene Wright, the bassist here, died December 30th 2020 at 97. He was the last living musician from the Time Out album (the one this was on- if you only know the Infinity commercial song, check out the track "Blue Rondo ala Turk", a work of genius). RIP.
What else did 2020 give us, not give, *take from us
@@nikolaridjicki8458 The Biden Administration lololol
What a nice comment. Thank you.
@@Rhythmicons good god, why is there always someone who has to inject politics into absolutely everything? Yes, politicians are dickheads and clowns, we all know that. But there is a time and a place for mocking them and in a reply to a comment somebody made about paying their respects to a man who passed away on a completely non political video is not it.
@@brendanm6921 Did you roll up your sleeves enough for that dad lecture? Try ignoring comments you don't approve of and then kindly go fuck yourself.
Gonna turn 265 years old this saturday. I came from outer space and traveled to earth and when I heard this song in a bar in New York I immediately fell in love with jazz. Now I'm playing sax in outer space and my friends love it.
😂
I also dont think that "lowkey stokey" is 95 lol
@@kiradus fr his videos say otherwise
@@MikkoLaulainen damn, that guy is just reposting memes. Now he is also called "YaBoiC" haha
Lol I just read the fake 95 years old's comment that's laterally right above this.
I don’t understand how jazz is said to be a dying genre. JAZZ IS AMAZING. I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT
check out this tune and tell me jazz has not got pull th-cam.com/video/6Y1Emb7Jyks/w-d-xo.html
Jazz is pure feeling and mood, Jazz is an attitude to life. How could a way of life die?
By not being expressed
The same way disco died
A-Freakin-MEN, brother!! And Smooth Jazz is great too...can't _tell_ ya how many of the smooth jazz artists have gotten MAJOR influences from classic jazz artists. (Thinking Wes Montgomery in particular...even the great Pat Metheny was influenced by Wes!) An Bob James has his masterpiece "Nautilus"...said to have been sampled over *70 times* in rap & hip-hop songs! Long Live *JAZZ* !!!
BTW -- Enjoyed me some Ray Schinnery at Terra Blues in NYC (Bleecker Street)...TH-cam this guy -- true jazz fans will _not_ regret it!!
The greatest saxophone solo and the greatest jazz song in history. I was so privileged to be able to see these guys play live one time. As a sax player, what a treat that was.
Nah that's exaggerating
It is pretty good but not the greatest...
And the peecussion is amazing!
Wow your so lucky, I play the Tenor Sax, I’m 12 now and still even though we are in a different generation, still gotta love them. #DavidBrubeck
...I agree!
So, famously, Dave Brubeck said that the group never intended for this song to be as famous as it became. Paul Desmond had a lick he wanted to play around with, and they used the opportunity to give Joe Morello an overdue drum solo.
So, Dave and Eugene kinda took a backseat while Paul did his thing, and then Joe got his solo.
But Joe could have gone nuts here. This is the era of Buddy Rich and Art Blakey. Drum solos were marked by how fast and how hard you can bash everything.
For one of jazz's most influential groups, in the group's most famous song- a jazz standard and by extention, arguably one of the most famous drum solos in jazz- Joe Morello's solo was so simple, a middle schooler on a PlayTek My First Kit could play it.
Joe could have gone nuts. He could have gone ferral for three minutes Whiplash-style. The team gave him a blank check to flex.
He didn't. He decided to just... he just vibed out, man.
They say jazz is about the notes you don't play. In that case, this is the greatest jazz drum solo of all time.
Well said.
Beautifully put!
Sometimes, less is more...and it was perfect for this track!
That is extremely well thought out and well spoken my man. I thought this was Buddie Rich for a long time the drums are so bad ass, standout, subtle, masterful, and exquisite!
💛💛💛
Thank you for this piece of music! You just made my almost 92 year old Dad a happy man!
Kathryn, i like your comment ,, Your dad likes class , this divine jazz piece of music will still be played in eternity i was 16 years old when i first heard this master piece , now im 76 years young i still adore its utter magic lol Jane xx
Happy early Birthday!!!
@@oughtonoughton2634 parfaitement raison et un pur chef d'oeuvre moi j ai 74 ans et jel écoute tous les jours bravo Dave et son quarquet Claude progni
I am a big fan of jazz since I was a young girl and when I wanted to reach out to people from a different generation or culture we were all you united and in better mind sets while engaging with jazz!
So . . . he's 91 then, right? Why not just write "91?"
I’m 80 years old and this still gives me goosebumps from the first time I heard it. If only people today realise what wonderful music we grew up with.
A lot of teenagers my age know how wonderful it is. I guess it’s only a matter of preference and exposure to music like Take 5
Hang on buddy ❤
If this song doesn't get you into jazz, nothing will.
that is true
agreed
the only reason i rekindeled my passion for piano again was because of this song
This song IS jazz
Personally has been My funny valentine by Chet Baker, but I understand what you say
Director: All right everyone. Good work on rehearsal. Everyone take five!
Jazz Band:
Snowballs True that
Whatever balls.
Lol.. A very jazzy comment
They did a bit on the Muppet Show just like that 40 years ago! I'm sure it's on you tube..
YASSS!
This was 1 of the 1st songs my father played for me when he introduced me to jazz, I early pre- teens 12/13, I'm 43 now..
Thank you PaPa,may u rest peacefully..
wow same
@@eddrum age
@@eddrum 😂
condolences to you😢❤
My father was a big Brubeck fan, I didn't get to appreciating Jazz until listening to Steely Dan warmed me up to it.
I gave my dad some Donald Fagen records (which he seemed to appreciate) and I have started listening to more of my dad's music. He passed away recently and I made sure to keep his vinyl albums from his youth as a keepsake. I also made sure to save some of his CDs to add to my listening. I miss my dad but I can only imagine he is in the same place as Dave Brubeck and many of his favorites.
Take five is such a delightful song to listen to, I don't know how anyone could dislike it. I just wish that I would have given it a chance much earlier in my life. I guess it is just a matter of refining tastes in music that comes with age.
As soon as I hear this...I am instantly taken to a large urban city in the 70's... nighttime... driving to a jazz club... surrounded by beautiful people listening to wonderful music. I wish it lasted for hours...it's a masterpiece.
Jokes aside this is without a doubt one of the greatest songs ever recorded
So true 🎷♥️🎷
Yes it's right up there with Green Onions!
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 stop
@@mattveteska8559 Could you be more vague?
@@jacksonmorganfroghin4815 sorry, dumb comment on my part..green onions is a very iconic song I just never knew it's name. Your comparison is good
i give this a 5/4, great job
😂
It’s going at a 5/4 tempo instead of the regular 4/4 tempo
As I give your comment... 5/4... well deserved.
Two drums and a cymbal!
@@holorimes We know, that's the joke.
I woke up this morning in Italy, where I live since 2003, with this tune on my head....I thought I'll never find it....what a pleasure. I'm 62 now.
🇮🇹
@1960GABRIELA 🇮🇪
American Graffiti. Where were you in "62?
I'm in my 60's and I have heard this song for going on 7 decades... and I'm still mesmerized!
One of those perfect recordings that just never gets old.
Good times are those who don't come back, turn past and tell their grandchildren..... Glenn Miller - In The Mood ... Good timesssss...
Never.
Sarah Dupuy I get inspiration and insight from it
Never......ever.......gets old. Dance!!!! ❤
That’s also what they say about Kardashian.
And Queen.
Gelukkig klopt het voor deze topper wel 👌
Pretty sure this song increases charisma and gambling skills by 100%
Makes just even walking better 😅
@@djstrongarmgmail - I'm more happy and confident with this!
Ahh a gamer
@@ocean1641 It came to me as I was playing poker in RDR2 and winning every single hand while this song was playing.
Mental theme music
I'm just going to leave my comment here so when someone likes it I can listen to this masterpiece again.
Something tells me you're gonna be listening to this song a lot for the next while lol
Wanted to give you the gift of listening again. Happy holidays my friend.
Sure, but right now this comment has 69 likes. Niiiiceee.
You're welcome. 😊
Like from Korea🖤
I'm not primarily a Jazz guy. I'm more into Heavy Metal, Disco and Pop. My Dad introduced me to Jazz as a kid. He claimed that he paid off some guy at the hospital I was born at so the first music I would ever hear was "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. He showed me John Coltraine, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald and George Gershwin. I discovered Brubeck through this very song. My father and me, we don't get along the best. We are doing OK, but stuff happened. We are working on it. But no matter whatever happens, Jazz will be a thing we both enjoy. Admittedly him more than me, but still.
Just a few notes can mean so much.
In the 7th grade, every time my class got detention, my teacher played this and we couldn’t talk while it was playing or else he would start over. The class purposely got in trouble just to listen to it again and again and I can say. We definitely enjoyed this masterpiece. Getting detention was a win-win situation.
I wish my detentions were like this
Teacher knew what he was doing...
Literally got chills while reading this
Your teacher had awesome taste, & helped the kids who were in the school band perhaps
whar's the name of the school & teacher?😂😊😂
My mother just recently passed on 4/20/23, and she was a strong jazz fan. So hearing this is bringing happy tears to my heart. I can see and hear her truly enjoying this beautiful piece. RIP mother this is for you.❤😢🙏🏾
I'm sorry for your loss. Know that your mom is in Heaven, listening to Brubeck and all the other jazz greats. God bless you.
❤
God bless you too!
I'm so sorry for ur loss 😢.
My Margie just passed 1-20. I took care of her 24/7 for six years. I miss her more than words can say. I feel your loss my friend,
this song is the embodiment of the smell of coffee, alcohol, and cigarette smoke.
cyberwolfy37 and a dry cocktail...
Yes. And on a layed back rainy day.
a fat cuban cigar
And a beautiful woman...
And put a nice greasy reefer in as well 🥴
One of the most brilliant jazz tunes ever!
👏
The ONLY jazz piece that gets to me emotionally. Perfection at every note. Love this piece.
you gotta listen to more jazz cause there’s some emotional ass jazz tunes man
I have to agree. I thought I knew jazz until a few years back, and listened to some stuff from Delmark Records and other places. Love Brubeck, but there's so much more out there!
@@teresahegerich8835 Astrud Gilberto-Pure Bossa Nova magic from Brazil
Listen to some EST then. Ajar, Eighthundred streets by feet, goldwrap, all amazing tracks
You are so right it is perfection 😍
My late Mother introduced us to this music when we were young. Now a Happy Grandmother, I heard my neighbor playing this last night and I instantly thought of my Beloved Mother who loved Jazz.
RIP Jean 3/25/2020
rip jean 🖤
God bless her!
Thank you Jean!! And to you and yours be blessed! 🙏🏾❤️
Her soul is speaking to you through this piece of music. That is what music and jazz is; The energy of past lives pushing through the boundaries of the present. R.I.P Jean!
Rip 🖤
This song means so much to me. My grandmother was a huge jazz enthusiast. She had loved jazz all her life. Every year, she would travel all over the country to various jazz venues and festivals. She always really loved Dave Brubeck, I believe he was one of her favorite artists. This last summer, she had a heart attack. It initially looked pretty good, she seemed like she was on her way to recovery. However, things didnt go to well after the stent. One morning, my dad called me and told me that it wasn't good and she only had a few hours left. I stayed their the whole time, with her, talking to her. When the doctor unplugged her life support, her breathing started to get shallower. As she left us, we put on Pandora Radio, and the first song to come up was Take Five. This song played her out of her life. She had had so many surgerys and hip replacements, and her body was just weighing her down, and the meaning of the song and the concept of "take five" is just so perfect. It was time for her to just take five from this life. I love ya Grandma :)
cdog990609 Awww bless her
Bless you and your family, and may your grandmother rest in peace ❤
+cdog990609
Dang . . . you made me tear up. Thank you for writing/sharing
what an awesome way to make that transition
Your english is amazing. The story is moving and beautiful. You seem to be a very worthful being. You pay so much attention to all detail. You sort of express yourself through your language. I admire you man.
Wow... I am not even worthy to hear that awesome story. thx
The drums Man, the drums. Simply perfection.
Joe Morello - doesn’t he do this track justice?
JaneR
Yes!
Oh yeah.
I caught Brubeck perform in the 90s and it was one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. He was in his 80s and his energy was still inspiring.
Can you even imagine having such talent at 90???? My freakin God!
I had the privilege of seeing Brubeck in concert at a jazz festival many years ago. It's amazing how much energy he had.
Quelle bonheur d'entendre une oeuvre atemporelle ! Je l'écoute les jours de pluie; cette musique s'y prête à merveille !
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Intemporelle !😜
Les jours de pluie je suis plutôt Gymnopédie No.1 d'Erik Satie. J'y mêlerai Take five dorénavant. 😉
@@aldenico8036 j'adore également Éric Satie peut être un peu Mélancolique mais ça dépend des gens , pour ma part je me régale et je ne suis pas triste du tout !.....
@@yolandechantois9312 Entre tristesse et mélancolie ....je choisis mélancolie.🙂
Wonderful classic. It’s so happy and light. We need a refrain from the darkness or a take 5 from it.
when i was a wee lad my father showed this to me and i fell to my knees and tears started flowing from my eyes for i had never heard anything so beautiful as this song this was 79 years ago thank you papa you really saved me from my deep depression all those years ago may you rest in peace
fucking bozo back when dad showed this to me in 1935 i fucking shat my self so hard
My Dad has passed on but, I still remember the day that he went to the Jazz Festival at Travis Park in San Antonio Texas and came back bragging how amazing and awesome Dave Brubeck sounded on stage playing Take 5. It made me pick up the sax again and start right where I left off from the high school jazz band.
What year was that? I might have been there
@@bluedingo1186 It was in 2008 and my Dad passed away in 2012. Dave Brubeck was celebrating 25 years and was performing on the Bud Light Stage and the festival is called Jazz SA Live at Travis Park and is held every single year but, was canceled last year cause of the Covid thing. Every year they bring out the best Jazz groups in the world.
@@dymonddavetx12d I missed that one. We lived out of town at that time. That sounds awesome.
Bless you and your father.
Love Jazz Fest at Travis Park! Thank you for sharing your story, I’m sure your dad was an awesome father!
Una pieza iconica, es simplemente deliciosa, con una composición exquisita, suave, sofisticada y espléndida. Dave Brubeck es fantástico. Gracias
8 years old when my papa started playing this song on the album. Scratchy record player, twilight as the cool breeze blew through the curtains. I am transported every time to calm and bliss. Even at 70. Good stuff.
Don't know music but I love the piano and drumming in this piece
aminor1950 -of the lady variety my friend. I totally agree. Age ain’t nothin but a number
No offense taken. The online realm often obscures. Best wishes. Best Brubeck.
that’s beautiful.
you're beautiful
My son performed it on the drums, he is 15 and he loves it. His teacher was overwhelmed by the performance and this masterpiece by Brubeck
I was 74 years old when I first heard this classic. Now I'm 16. Long time to be in love with this fab Jazz lol
Ok Benjamin Button
what? I know its supposed to be a joke i think but please explain
Started a new life lmao
This comment is ahead of its time
how funny you are ,,,,,,lets all laugh
I still recall (at age 78 recalling is tougher than it usta be) the first time I heard this. It was a single on the jukebox in the Hilltopper Café across Center Street from the campus of Western Kentucky (then) State College in Bowling Green. It was late summer-early fall, 1959. It had been released as a single throughout the Nashville market of which BG was a part. I and a whole, whole lot of other Western students who ate there put a lot of dimes into that juke box to play what was fast becoming a monster hit on campuses around the region. I was in the café near-daily, since I lived in a $15-a-month basement room in the rooming house next door. It became a campus hit nationally two years later. The record in the café wore out and had to be replaced -- as did the one in the student center grill jukebox -- as I recall. I bought the album and later bought it again after I loaned it to someone who failed to return it. Still have that second vinyl album all these years later (and about 3 other DBQ vinyls) -- plus the classic on cartridge tape and CD albums that I have picked up along the years. Regret never having seen the quartet in concert. That's getting to be a long time ago -- and every year many young people discover Brubeck and Desmond and Morello and Wright and "Take Five." Maybe there's hope for the world, after all . . .
My dear joe, i will be only 56 next saturday but i realy believe i was close to you this late summer-early fall of 59! My french parents were still living in Marocco and i was'nt still an idea. Is that possible? Of course yes! Many thanks to you for sharing this pure emotion. It adds to the listening of this masterpiece.
this is an awesome story, I listened while I read. thank you!! :)
Joe Burgess joe, you need to write a book. You had all of me invested in all of that for the 2 minutes I read it. I’m only 20 years old.
A lovely story, I wish you well !
you always wonder how a song was first listened to in its original time period and what it felt like to listen to it for the first time, what a lovely testimony to this song's first audience. thanks so much for writing.
A most excellent piece of music. I’m compiling a playlist of 20th Century Classic Tunes for my granddaughter since she’ll never get to experience it. This is most certainly on the list with the ‘50s compilation (going decade by decade.)
This sounds like a very wholesome project. Good luck with it.
It is nearly impossible to pull off something this good with such simplicity, yet Dave, Paul and company did it. SOOO easy to listen to.
I first heard this in a cab, I had listened jazz before, but this was the piece that really made an impact on me and got me deep into jazz. After listening lots of it, I still believe there is no better group than The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Check out Cannonball Adderley his song Mercy Mercy Mercy is magical and a spiritual uplifting moment of happiness 😊
When you have a chance check out Cannonball Adderley a tremendous and versatile musician, Great music my mommy introduced me to when I vwss very young 4 years old and then the private schools I attended included multiple genres of music and jazz music was on the top of the list for listening, concentration, creativity and calmness. To bad most younger generations cannot understand what it means to have calmness when trying to resolve conflicts or develop strategies to understand how to be humble!
@@ayndowney9401 😮😮😮 thanks
The fact that no one mentions that this was actually composed by Paul Desmond, not Brubeck, and arguably the most iconic part (the saxophone) is also played by Desmond makes me kinda sad, he deserves more recognition for his amazing job on this track.
You're absofuckinlutely right!
nahhhhhhhh the drumming is what this song is most famous for
@@JuanGarcia-fv9ph imo nothing beats that sax by Desmond, it's so easily recognizable, but yeah, the drums are amazing as well
If you look at writer in the description, it's there for all to see.
@@PedroCunha23 I remember reading somewhere that Paul Desmond actually wrote that tune to showcase the drummer, who then played his solo beautifully cool. Like, really cool. Yeah...😎
This is illegally soothing and I want this man scolded by God in the heavens for making such a good jam. May he rest in peace.
My Dads favourite tune, we had this playing at his funeral on the way in and out. I'm hooked on it now, so many memories of Dad listening to Dave Brubeck. 😊
My dad would play it loud on Saturday mornings at 6:00 am 😢
This is so bizar. Haven't listened to this piece for a while, because.... It was one of my father's favorites, and we played it three years ago at his funeral on the way in...
This. Is. Such. A. Masterpiece.
It's a fact: 5/4 people love that time signature.
musician here, that was funny
few musics with this timing
Thank you. I’m analysing this piece and couldn’t figure it out lol
Wai, whaa 🤣🤣
Try 13/8, like Brad Fidels' Terminator. I love odd time signatures. 4/4 rocks but others are interesting.
I am now 72 and still find this music best represents my expectancy for "the best is yet to come" in a marvelous tune!!!Simply love it!!😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
2 years ago today my Daddy passed away. This is one of the last songs I PLAYED FOR HIM. He was 80 years old and loved music, especially jazz. This is OUR SONG now.
Well done. Well done.
♥️♥️
I did the same thing, except for my Grandpa! #best to you
@@rainbitcoin Big Hug!
my dad used to listen to jazz Sunday mornings... this is the kind of stuff I'd wake up to..... I love it forever..... (he passed in 2005)
My Dad always played this when i was a kid. My Dad has been passed for almost two years now. At least once a day I play this. Miss you Pops!
I dig it, man, and I dig your dad. Keep it up. This music is forever. Jazz is life.
Sorry for your lost 🙏. However, the magic of music is that we are able to travel to the past.
My condolences, sir. Your dad rests peacefully now.
He had a great ear.My Uncle Frank Messina who adopted me along with my brother and sisters was a great saxophone player I always think of him when I listen and cry because I never understood as a kid his musical skills.
This song will never go out of style, it’s a timeless classic!
Sonny Rollins went in style with the St. Thomas song on that 2017 movie, lol!
My lovely brother Ray who has just died introduced me to Dave Brubeck when I was very young, thanks Ray
Morello is my hero. My favorite drummer of all time. That solo was beautiful. Literally. Not many drum solos can you say that about, but that was a thing of beauty. There's more to playing drums then playing as many strokes as fast and loud as you can.
Can you dig it, Daddy - O
@@tuckerfrd1 i dig
That cat, is outta sight on the skins. 😎🖒
i'm interested in what you think of alan dawson who also played
with brubeck? another understated drummer who had an
insane ability - he taught at berkeley in boston.
Where has Jazz been all my life? This is incredible
You need to check out some of his other genius master pieces!!! He was the BEST EVER!!!!
Hidden Talent yeah its pretty amazing check out miles davis john coltrane louis armstrong
You're gonna have some fun discovering ;)
Hidden Talent Amen, brother! I've only started properly listenin' to jazz in the last year and it's totally changed my life and how I listen to any kind of music now!
Hidden Talent welcome :)
You don't need to be a jazz fan to enjoy this. This is universal and will be played as long as there is music. Have loved it since it hit the U.K. hit parade way back when. Regards to all Brubeck fans.
I'd be honored if some jazz (and non-jazz) fans would take a listen to my acoustic performance of WATERS OF MARCH (keyboard & vocal, English lyrics) on my YT channel in tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim... live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and peace.
hate jazz. love this.
@@lucatopala1275 Thanks Luca. Please play Le Martinique by Chris Barber and Postman's Lament by Ken Colyer. It might be of interest to you. Kind regards.
@@lucatopala1275 You hit the nail right on the head.
Although it helps if you approach from the classical music side.
@@lucatopala1275 Hi Luca. Did you ever play the two records i recommended? Le Martinique by Chris Barber and Postman's Lament by Ken Colyer. Kind regards. October 2022.
I dedicate this song to my Father, Daddy you are gone, I miss you like hell but you are not forgotten. Thank you for giving me a love lesson and appreaciation for Jazz.
I remembered my first time hearing this song, it was about 10:30 pm I was leaving work, it was around December close to Christmas and the taxis are going by, and everything just felt right, and a guy on his sax was playing this song, and ever since that night in Manhattan, every time I play this song it reminds me of Manhattan at night with all the bright lights. I love this song.
I'm stuck with that scene of Hal chillin' in his bomb shelter in Malcolm in the Middle.
Beautiful. Thank you for that picture.
andre sydney that reads like a paragraph from On The Road
J T hey J T not sure if that's a complement, or you're saying I snagged a paragraph from on the road. but regardless it a true event that happened in my lifetime back in 98, no add living my friend.
andre sydney it's a complement, I'm saying your writing style reminded me of Jack Kerouac!
'Take Five' - "the biggest-selling jazz single ever" , composed by Paul Desmond and recorded by
the Dave Brubeck Quartet for its 1959 album Time Out .
Dave Brubeck: piano Paul Desmond: alto saxophone
Eugene Wright: bass Joe Morello: drums
Rodica Moody thank you
I have Loved it for at least 40 years... so soothing
Thank you!
Thanks for the information you are a smart woman!
Do you like jazz ?
Paul Desmond on sax -- perfect and beyond words
MY " IDOL" , ACTUALLY WAS TAUGHT HIS " SUBTONE" TECHNIQUE ON THE MOUTH PIECE. GOT IT REAL WELL, ON A BERG LARSEN 110/1. METAL & # 4 OR 4 1/2 RICO, TILL JAW SURGERY DENIED ME THE ABILITY TO " DROP" LOWER JAW FOR "THIS SOUND". OH WELL. "QUE SERA, SERA". VERY FORTUNATE TO STILL PLAY THOSE HIGH FAKE NOTES TO THIS DAY, W/ NO " JAW LOCKING" & VERY LITTLE " CLICKING. SWITCHED TO "BERG LARSEN EBONITE 120/1 & ROYAL RICO # 3> SAVED MY PLAYING LIFE.
Paul Desmond is the saxophonist and composer I aspire to be
🎷
A lot of people commenting their age and they're so 90+ young! Well here I am, an odd one out! A 35 year old kid, loving and admiring this masterpiece. I chanced upon this about 10 years ago. And this is me here in December 2024!
Saw Dave Brubeck twice in the early 1960's in Jacksonville, Fl, when he was on tour. I was in the 7th and 8th grade and a budding musician. I will never forget those performances, especially Joe Morello's drum solo. Man, I can still see and hear it now. Age 69, and still playing. Smooth West Coast Jazz.
Play forever!
I hear this man was incredible, I'm still blowing my trombone 68
For the longest time this song echoed around in my dreams and I could never remember the name, just the beat and that it made me feel good, finally knowing is a gift. What a wonderful song
I was poor when I listened to this song.
I'm still poor but I liked the song
😂😂 i was hoping to read that as your next line😂😂 but rich in musical taste!
Hah ;_;
Then why is your comment in the past tense? ;-)
No you a richer is spirit and soul.
From Poland Bro...🖐👍🌍
This beat never gets old. Thank you for your inspirational jazz style during this most creative era of jazz music, Mr. Brubeck.
Be my cougar
@@charlesmelonson3603 yeesh
Today is 5/4, so Happy Dave Brubeck Day
yay
Good one
So that must mean June 8th is Happy RUSH Day. Neil Peart is God.
@@thisismagacountry1318 This is pound sign make America great again country
@@mazarinivmikeoxlong-dedica969 This is Jussie Smollett having a bad day, about to get worse in prison.
Born in 63'. This is so familiar. I feel all of the warm fuzzys of my "Wonder Year memories and safety and love; as I listen, the anxiety of today just drifts away.
63 also...nice
My brother introduced me to jazz in the late fifties, traditional and modern. Dave Brubeck's music was (still is) awesome. Same goes for Chris Barber's and Acker Bilk's music.
Bit of trivia...Dave Brubeck assigned everyone to compose some original music. To spark creativity, he gave different time signatures to each person 3 (3/4), 4 (4/4) and so forth. Paul Desmond was told take 5 (5/4) time. Paul wrote 'take 5' on his notepad as a reminder. Later he decided that was a good name.
StereoSpace Paula Abdul would often use that same exercise before recording
StereoSpace How much of this kind of music is actually written down?
jjohnston94 I'm not a musician, so I can't answer that directly. I'm under the impression that the melody - the basic structure - is written. The musicians improvise the chord changes - my understanding at least, and apologies if I got that completely wrong. Maybe a musician here can comment on this.
StereoSpace Well, I was a bit of a musician years ago, but a crappy one, but I can tell you you've got it backward. The chord progression is the foundation and the melody is improvised. But I would still like to know how much of each is actually put on paper.
Is that where the phrase comes from originally? Take five.
Everything about this is first class, but Morello's solo is one the greatest in drumming history. Poetry.
This song remind me of my late uncle ouboet Christian Sibiya
My favorite song. I was 11 when I heart the first time. Now I 70. Still my favorite.
I’m a millennial homemaker that has this on vinyl. I want to collect more classic music to play while I clean and cook. 😌
Nice to see there remain a few truly healthy people in this country!
There will always be a remnant.
One of my favourite jazz songs of all time. It’s flawless! 🔥
Ay I dig that catdad
You have precisely stated it ALL! Thank you.
One of my favorites.
Beautiful drum solo,sax,bass and piano.
Admittedly ,the drum is not one of my favorite instruments ,but the solo effort on Take Five knocks your socks off 🧦
First heard this when I was a kid and I knew I was listening to something special. I guess that's hard to believe but its true and I'll be 70 soon and I still feel the same way about it.
50 years later it is still riveting, and gives me chills. Wow! Big thanks to the musicians for sharing their art. Absolutely genius, in every way.
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Busy. Quiet. Beautiful. Tedious. Dull. Exciting. Probably the greatest balance jazz will ever meet in life.
It is as you say. The jazz of the human condition.
Class A
Very well put Stephen. Take Five is one of five greatest Jazz Tunes of all times. Miles, Parker, Brubeck, Hancock and Coltrane are it. They are JAZZ
I'd be honored if some jazz fans would take a listen to my acoustic performance of WATERS OF MARCH (keyboard & vocal, English lyrics) on my YT channel in tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim and the arrival of another March... live acoustic with no autotune or digital editing. Thanks and peace.
I was playing this on my high school's piano in their orchestra room, when two of my friends decided to do an improv poetry slam on top of me playing. Needless to say I was dying laughter the entire time.
I forgot what the slam ended up being about, but goddamn it was fun.
I was 4 years old when i first heard Take 5. Thanks to my grandma! She introduced me to some good music. It brings me back to strolling in NYC on a cool spring day. Love you grandma rest in peace 💛
I just discovered this today and I'm 16, I should've discovered this when I'm younger.
@@daniellakaran5760 it’s never too late to find good music
@@jayya1k Yeah, better late than never.
Sounds absolutely beautiful. May your grandmother rest in peace. She had excellent taste in music. 🙏♥️🙏
@@naudianeels1328 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️
TAKE FIVE was released the same year I was born 1959. Little did I know years later I would DIG his music!
My uncle died a few hours ago from an cardiac arrest. He was 50 years old .. he told me that this melody is the best he heard in his life. Rest in Peace my uncle i hope to see you someday. Thanks for the memories and thanks for the guidance to make me a better person.
Darth Vader uncle Ben?
Darth Vader I lost one of my uncles when I was younger, probably the most influential man in our entire family, it's interesting to think how different things would have been if he were still here today, but it seems like a part of me died that day to. May your uncle Rest In Peace as well, friend.
May your uncle rest in peace, My Lord.
Darth Vader my uncle was 49 when he passed
May he rest in peace and may you have many years to enjoy this music along with the memories you have of him.
if you read this you have nice taste in music my man. 😊
When you watch this little girl, you want adopted her. .
Take Five - Emily Bear (8)
TFE niname indeed. 😊
Deadpool Tebrex Taste is subjective but thanks I'll take that :)
My other half had the good taste in music. I didn't like it at first, for some reason...
Now it's just one more reason to love her. =P
haha...same story only 1978
One of the best pieces of music ever written.
I'm 71 and have been a fan for a long time!!!❤❤
I'm 70: this is THE Jazz tune in the 20-21 Century. Congress has listed "Take 5" as a National Treasure!😂❤❤🎉
God, that drum solo! 🥁 👏🏿 🏆
dipshit
Amor infinito
@@wayneandrews9298 Joe Morello 🥁
Yeah!
Ain't it great?
That drum solo marked a whole generation of drummers. Led Zeppelin 's John Bonham gave credit to Joe Morello's style, even his bare hand drum style came from here.
My wife bought me a set of Edifier R1280T bookshelf speakers for my birthday this week and I was searching for something to test out the fidelity of its sound. Now this track is so crisply clear with the right amount of boom, twang, and snap. My ears feels like it's been slathered in honey and got shipped to heaven. God I need a drink...
me with hd 600
listen to candy dulfer. you'll really enjoy them then
You my friend haven't perfectly described this song!
@@warrenknapp7314 Or Jimmy Smith or Kenny Burrell.
So... Paul Desmond has another piece named "A taste of honey"... (featuring Jim Hall)
it's good to know that great music isn't determined by popularity ,sales or speed ,it's the feelings that make it great
Yeah, a lot of the Pop stuff recently may have a catchy melody but are missing the feeling. Jazz has catchy melodies and feeling, along with many other great genres like rock and blues.
Kevin Gillespie ya and the dead beat and the lack of melody are unbearable
I know right! EDM just sounds dead and so artificial! There's no life to it, which good jazz, funk and blues have!
This song was actually quite popular in its time. In fact, it's the best-selling jazz single of all time. The other hit on the record, Blue Rondo a la Turk... well, if you aren't familiar with it, you should look it up. But it was also a hit.
Omar Brsli you know how to Put the Words
I pulled this song up for my aunt in the hospital, she cried, loved it... she said, "reminds me of my father, I miss him!" Me too auntie, I miss grandpa too, great New Orleans musician!!! ❤❤❤❤
Joe Morello's drum solo is unreal & almost melodic!
Any relation to Tom morello?
This is a 'All Times" masterpiece...Paul Desmond, great saxophonist, was the composer....
BELKIS i like your comment , this divine classic is so adorable it all folds into a state of genius composing , ive adored this since its beginning i was 16 years old when i first heard it now im 76 , its a long time to be in love xx Jane xx
How come nobody is taking about the most epic drum performance in recorded history? Joe Morello delivered a superhuman drum track here.
in the 5/4 ryhtm...1 2 3 ..4 5 ..
Most epic drum performance? I mean it’s good but it’s not the best ever! And it’s definitely not superhuman.
I believe that was the intent of the comment
In fairness most people are not into jazz including myself but this tune is timeless,this and stranger on the shore I could listen to every day,just marvellous pieces,greetings from Ireland.
I'm in complete agreement. Jazz, in general, just doesn't appeal to me but this is one amazing piece of music. It's incredible how many people instantly recognise it.
Isn't it amazing how we can voluntarily access such masterpieces in today's world through this magical thing called the internet?
Just imagine being in those days when it is considered lucky to find something as good as this in the local store...
Genious. Makes me get out of my skin and into strange parts of my head. I want more of this. I'm in the atmosphere.
@Donna Clemons Wow, I've always been wondering how it was really like to have a mountain of physical copies lying around...
But although our technological advancements granted us the privilege of being able to access any kind of tune/genre with a few simple clicks, I reckon that at the same time, we've lost the sort of... satisfaction, the appreciation of actually possessing a precious copy within one's grasp.
Furthermore, I oftentimes notice how adults in their 40s and beyond have a tendency to stick to a favorite song that accompanies them in the midst of their grievous times for years, maybe even decades, whilst most adolescents of today - including myself - stick to a favorite song for merely a few days before they're fed up with it, presumably due to the fact that people in my age group tend to take the convenience of immediate access to trillions of songs over the internet for granted.
But such are things in life. Good things accompany bad things like Yin and Yang, for this is how nature has decided to balance things out in this world. :)
Nevertheless, it still leaves me wishing that I was born "in those days", to truly cherish the kind of music in which artists actually put their heart and soul into their passion, rather than having the musical gems of bygone times obscured by talentless compositions that only serve as greedy money grabs.
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This actually strikes my mind everytime I hear ppl talking about "the great past times"! Dude, I get it, 80's were awesome, but.. We got the internet baby :D
There were plenty of record shops back in the day. It was a great way to buy music. Going through album cover's some with reviews on the back "favorable of course ". Listen to the music it was great.
God! I sure wish they'd bring music back like this. People would mellow out.
Because experimental stuff like this will always be a niche thing. Which is good as it leads to better jazz music, but also pretty much kills jazz as pop music.
actually they do, look up for J.A.M. they are japanese
look up badbadnotgood and flying lotus
+fixed gear Of course they do, and I can mention even more - but people like this are too stuck up to actually look for new music they like and instead judge on what they think is right.
I love this song as well as varied Jazz styles but sadly some people just don't mellow out no matter what.