I give em' some quarter, but not much. At the age of seven (me), not everybody's father turned them on to Satchmo, Anita O'Day, Roy Elldrige, Gene Krupa, and Roland Kirk simultaneously by 1962. Teach your people how to swing eighth notes, for starters.
I had a band that did take five, and coming out of the drum solo, we went into a little bit if the Mission Impossible theme song. Also in 5/4. It always got cheers.
I had the honor of playing backup to Dave Brubeck three times during my student years at University of the Pacific (Dave's alma mater). While the commercial album was a masterpiece, he could launch into these amazing solos when live. Learned so much about how music fit together from those experiences! I'm thrilled you've dipped your toe into this particular pool.
Totally experienced his wild, energizing solos when the quartet played a special concert in Ann Arbor, MI, in the early 70's. My Dad's albums were cool, but the music in person took me to a whole other place. I was like 10 feet away, 3rd row, and despite being a rock-addled teen I was RIVETED.
Glad yer now hip to this classic. Released in '59 on the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out, written by alto sax legend Paul Desmond, Joe Morello on drums (iconic solo), Gene Wright on hypnotic bass groove. This has a permanent place in the pantheon of jazz history. It's only been part of my fabric for 40 years or so but I suspect it'll be forever. Thanks D-Nick, for listening and sharing like only you do.
Dave Brubeck is listed on our national historic registry. When I was an 18 yr old headbanger and heard this song it BLEW ME AWAY, as a drummer I was so impressed with Joe Morello. These guys are all legends. I'm glad I got to see Brubeck perform years ago.
@@proteusaugustus Yes. He is a sax player. And yes Paul Desmond composed it. He went on to have his own jazz band. Dave wanted truly talented people in his group, his team. They played a lot of campus gigs including in the south. Gene Wright as the bass player and being black Dave was asked to replace him by the PTB's. He would cancel the performance and put the word out on Why. These were sold out concerts! The students would get 😠 And they would call him back and tell him Gene could play but in the back of everyone else. Dave would say after the first number, "Gene, there's a problem with your mike. You have to move in closer!" Dave's wife, Iola was his manager. I believe they were married for seventy years.
@@proteusaugustus haha having the nerve to say someone is wrong without checking your facts... Paul Desmond is the composer, everyone that's interested in jazz knows that. Do you know that even drummers compose music?
Jazz is complex enough on it's own, but the fact that everything they're doing is kept in the challenging 5/4 time signature is master in the stratosphere!
No more challenging than playing in 4/4. This tune is in fact a school band staple. I'm not saying that to disparage the great playing here, but the actual arrangement isn't that complex or that hard to learn even for a relative novice. The challenging part is in the performance & improvisation, the beautiful lyrical tone Paul Desmond can produce etc
True, but they are not playing the original arrangement. The high school band arrangement was done in the mid-1970’s, and it was significantly simplified.
Grew up with this playing on the radio. The 5/4 rhythm was like a swaying cobra - so hypnotic. They often featured on American television in the early 60's or on European (particularly French and German) and British shows when they toured.
This was from the "Time Out" album where he experimented with different time signatures, this one being 5/4 time. It was one of four albums released in 1959 that are now credited with having a massive influence on jazz. The others being Miles Davis with "A Kind of Blue", Ornette Coleman with "The shape of jazz to come" and Charles Mingus with "Ah Um". That was quite a special year.
Thanks for the reaction dude. It's always gratifying to see the younger set appreciate good music. My Dad went to North Texas State University in Denton in the early 1960s, which was/is(?) one of the top jazz schools in the country. He met my mother there in a Spanish class in like 1962. A few years ago he was telling me about going to jazz concerts while they were going to college. My dad said "Me and your mama have been backstage after a Dave Brubeck concert at North Texas." 😲!!! I said "WHAT!!! You never told me that! Those dudes are LEGENDS!!!" I've been bragging on this one ever since... 🤤 My Mom and Dad were both Beatniks... my Dad even had bongo drums. I'm proud to say that they both marched for Civil Rights in North Texas, at a time and a place when doing that was taking your life in your hands. Both of my parents passed away last year, my Mom went first at 78, then my Dad a month later at age 80. I miss 'em like crazy... 😭 I'd like to see a reaction to a classic from the same era, the song that launched a whole genre of music, Bossa Nova (New Trend), "The Girl from Ipanema." Be sure to listen to the original version starring Joao and Astrud Gilberto with Jobim and de Moraes, 1962. Have a good evening
Great story and GREAT parents. I grew up listening to jazz that my dad listened to on a jazz only F.M. station from the early 60's in L.A. Hated it as a kid, but I always loved this song. Appreciate jazz now thanks to him. 👍❤🤙
Thank you for sharing this beautiful family story. I’m so sorry for the loss of your parents. You honor them in this retelling. They sound incredibly cool.
One of THE classic jazz compositions of all time, done entirely in 5/4 time, which is what gives it is unique groove. It still sounds fresh and exciting all these years later.
Masterpiece. Wish it was longer. Wow that drum solo stands up to John Bonham (Led Zeppelin). And shout out to Dave for putting his name last on the credits, shows he respects his band
Agree so much about Brubeck. I saw them in Central Park (late 60s, I'm guessing, with Gerry Mulligan guesting), and Brubeck did a fantastic piano solo, and then, as the audience reacted, rather than take any sort of bow himself, he immediately threw it to Morello for the drum solo. As you say, it was all about the band, not him.
As a jazz musician it’s hard to imagine a musical person having never heard this song before because it’s like a brick in the foundation of modern jazz. The album ‘Time Out’ was a creative adventure into a world music/jazz mash-up focusing on odd time signatures, this one being in 5/4 - hence the title ‘Take Five’ (actually written by Paul Desmond the sax player). I love live recordings, but still think I prefer the original studio version. Your innocent, unprepared response to this classic is priceless!
One of the finest jazz quartets ever put together. Take Five was recorded in '58 or '59. I suggest you follow this up with Dave's version of Rondo a la Turk. Always good to see someone getting an intro to Brubeck's exceptional jazz. Cheers....
Joe Morello, 1928-2011. Drummer Joe Morello, the longtime drummer with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, has died. Raised in Springfield, Mass. with impaired vision from birth, Morello eventually found his way to New York City, where he played with many leading jazz musicians.Mar 12, 2011
The "Time Out" Album came out in 59 and was the first jazz album with entire album of Odd time signatures! This tune here, was a Paul Desmond composition.....Brubeck himself, said it was a trip to Turkey that gave him and Desmond the idea of odd times. He said most of the music over there was in odd times, and people were dancing as if it was in the normal 4/4 or even 3/4 time signatures. The drummer Joe Morello is one of the most MUSICAL Drummers....EVER!!!
You moved me to tears, or that is you and the music moved me to tears. To see a youngster like you absorbing and understanding this music!!! So fine. I savored this entire presentation. (I watched Dave (piano) and the boys (his best band, these three guys) when they first came on over here in the East Bay/Concord and loved him all through the years while so many of my music people ignored him, weren't down at all with him....I never thought there was something wrong with me!! because you know what you know. I treasure that you also recognize and shared that this is some might fine jazz.) If you want to marvel some more, look for him in his later years over in Russia with an orchestra but !!! still jazz all the way. He was awesome and we still have his music. ps Paul Desmond is widely recognized as unique. No other sax player could touch him. And Joe Morello on drums!! Hallowed by all. Not to forget the inimitable Gene Wright. Eugene. Some say the bass makes all the difference to a band. xoxoox I FOUND IT/ It's a Celebration Mass in Russia, very mature, also a masterpiece.
A Super Famous song and Big Hit that is still played on Jazz and Standard Classics radio everyday some 60+ years later !!! Recorded the year I was born 1959' the Drum sol is so Great !!! : D
In the late 80's this was on the juke box in my college bar. Very unusual but am glad it was. Must have heard it multiple times every time I was in there.
I love your reaction to this wonderful music. It gives me hope for the younger generation keeping great music alive. Thank you for your enthusiasm and respect for the music.
It certainly is, truly a masterpiece, and deservidly recognized as such. I saw Brubeck in a tiny castle in Germany, in a small room, maybe 50 people sitting on folding chairs, an unforgetable experience.
In 1981, I was able to get tickets to see Dave Brubeck at Tanglewood (in Western Massachusetts) , also performing was Nancy Wilson. It was a great outdoor concert, I walked to the bathroom and as I walked out from our section, I was sitting right next to Hugh Downes. When the show started, they announced a new performer, from a musical family, and we would be seeing much of this fellow in the future. The warm up act was Wynton Marsalis. No one had heard of him yet, and everyone was talking about him, until Dave started up. One musical memory I am thrilled to share with you.
1959 was a long time ago. Someone 30 now was born 33 years _after_ Take Five was released. But it is indeed a classic. For sexy "torch singers" of this era Julie London shouldn't be ignored. Her song "Cry Me a River" catches echoes of "cool Jazz" genre nicely
Nice to see your appreciation of this; you'll find the entire album "Time Out" and its sequel "Time Farther Out" a real wonderland. I bought both albums about 60 years ago, still have them, still love them. Time Out was the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
Ok, so I saw these guys live in Washington D.C. in 1962. I was a junior in H.S. After that afternoon concert, my brain was altered. It was like a window was opened and I could hear sounds for the first time. Obviously a huge jazz fan ever since.🎹🎷🎶🎶🎶🎶
This is my go to for a reference for a 5/4 time signature.. It just makes my heart feel good when I hear this song..and they manage to perform it flawlessly while wearing suit, jacket and ties 😊 My other favourite, beautiful 5/4 song is 'Everything's Alright', from Jesus Christ Superstar. As an Aussie, I love the Kate Ceberano version.. 😁🎶
@@trevorhoward2254 Also "Living in the Past" by Jethro Tull. And my favorite 5/4 example apart from Take Five - the original "Mission: Impossible" TV theme song
Wish i could tell my Brubeck story. Short version i snuck into his show at the brown theater in louisville ky got front row balcony, was 17 it changed my life. Coolest cat that ever lived
Take Five performed in Belgium in 1964 by the Dave Brubeck Quartet: Dave Brubeck, piano Paul Desmond, alto sax Eugene Wright, bass Joe Morello, drums Take Five (written by Desmond and originally released by the quartet in 1959) is the biggest-selling jazz single of all time. Desmond passed away in 1977, Morello in 2011, Brubeck in 2012 and Wright in 2020.
My favorite quote about this piece is from Brubeck - "Take 5 was never supposed to be a hit, it was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo." :D Great reaction again!
If you saw them "back in the day", and perhaps near some college campus, there would often be a point where the drummer would take a LONG solo and the others would just walk away and take a 15 minute or so break. Great fun. I saw Brubeck at nearly one of his last concerts and he was unsteady on his feet walking out to the piano. But once he started playing, he was still at 100%. He did a piece called "London Sharp, London Flat" that he said was very difficult for him as one hand played in a key with many sharps, the other hand in a key with many flats. He was a very big jazz influence for many years and helped bring jazz to the general public.
Like everyone is saying, a truly legendary tune. Brubeck was part of that amazing "post-bop" era of jazz, with Miles and Coltrane taking a different track into the experimentation of the mid to late 60s (like Gary Burton, early Herbie Hancock, and of course Miles and the 20 or so bands that formed in his wake). And even better, almost no one is reacting to jazz, so this is doubly appreciated. Bravo!
Whenever I hear the song it's almost like I have a memory of days gone by... A smokey jazz bar downstairs in the middle of Manhattan in Chicago in the 19 40s..
I'm a prog rock and heavy metal fan, but one of my favorite guitarists is Stanley Jordan. I love how he plays with that finger tapping style with both hands on the fretboard.
The one and only jazz tune which took me years to learn on drums....and now I know! Thanks man, for playing my favourite drum solo of all time...5/8 forever!!!
Dave is on the piano. This is my favourite tune of all time from a sublime album that changed jazz. Every song on the album is in a different time signature.
I think Take Five was the first LP I ever bought...NEW...at 11 years old. I was so far ahead, it was beautiful!. I still love watching people performing at the top of their game, in whatever context. Glad you got to react to this.
I'm so jealous of these young people finding all these decades of amazing music for the first time. You get brought up listening to one genre and don't listen to anything else then BOOM out of the blue comes a hundred years of recorded music. ENJOY THE MUSIC man
I'm so happy to see young people discovering the genius of Dave Brubeck. Not only was he a great musician and composer, but he was a real gentleman & all-around sweet guy, in my opinion. My son & I went to one of his concerts years ago and his son Christopher let us backstage to visit with him in his dressing room. His wife was there too. She was a beautiful and gracious lady. It was a most memorable evening!
One of my favorite songs ever! Whole album is a top ten. Big influence on Donald Fagan, of Steely Dan, as I understand it. Brubeck’s mother was a concert pianist, and his father was a bonafide cowboy!
Saw Brubeck with different musicians in Guadalajara, Mexico back in 1974. It was a great show, the crowd favorite was the harmonica player he had with him that called himself Madcat.
Thanks Nick! Many years and too long since I last heard this classic piece, and what a great video. I'm sure it's Dave on the piano, keeping an eye on them all!
I was fortunate to see this group in about 1957 in a live outdoor concert in Kansas City. Stood right in front of the stage, and was enthralled by the rhythm and the sax. Nobody else in my crown knew anything about jazz or blues, most of our music was emerging rock n' rol on AM radio and 45 records I'd heard this piece on FM radio and went to the gig specifically hoping they'd play this classic. I crank it up on RUclips about once a year. Still one of my favorites!
Thanks for putting on the terrific Jazz classic. Jazz is truly the American music form played by Americans from all walks of life all backgrounds going back to New Orleans where it started, its America at its best
Joe Morello on Drums was the Bomb! His Solo was cut drastically for the 45 Version! Take Five was written by Saxophonist Paul Desmond! He wrote a Followup called Take Ten by his own group.
Played this when my nephews were 8, 7, and 4. At first they said change it, we're in the car. I know they're gonna get hooked, see them getting into it...I change the tune. "HEY, PUT IT BACK"
I grew up hearing jazz..it was always too busy for me.then along came blues and rock and roll..i was hooked..and i also used to listen to a LOT of old Motown..ahh great music days.
Dude! You made my night. Watching you have the same moment that I experienced 35 years ago, on the night that I first heard the studio recording of this, was a real treat.
Time Out is one of my favorite albums. It was recorded live in the studio (no overdubs) with just four AKG C-12 tube mics. Wanna find out how good your system and your listening skills are? Play the original recording (not the live recording shown here) and see if you can spot the moment that two different takes were spliced together. I'll give you a hint: Listen for the sound of a cymbal ring-out to change abruptly. It's a good edit, especially considering it was done with a razor blade on analog tape, so it's not easy to find.
Dave Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on sax, Joe Morello on drums, and Eugene Wright on bass.
The best!
Yesss the absolute best!!!
Correction:
THE GREAT Joe Morello on drums.
Saw, and heard, this live circa 1965
And they can help you with your taxes after the show.
That nerdy-looking guy on drums was one of the best drummers to ever pick up sticks. He was an incredible musician.
That's Joe Morello. He was blind. Also, one the the first to have written his own drumming method book that was used in many schools.
Yes and Yes.
When people say they dont like jazz I side-eye them real hard!
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Amen! And I love everything including Death Metal.
I give em' some quarter, but not much.
At the age of seven (me), not everybody's father turned them on to Satchmo, Anita O'Day, Roy Elldrige, Gene Krupa, and Roland Kirk simultaneously by 1962.
Teach your people how to swing eighth notes, for starters.
😂
Some it is as repetitive as blue grass. There is good, and bad. So I guess you have to look sideways at me? 😎🤔🤨
One of the best...THE best 5/4 time piece ever recorded. The whole album "Time Out" has cool time signatures.
Those time signatures were wild. How about 11/4, 17/8, and 31/16? (Just kidding about those last two!) 😂
So it went dumb dum didum dum. If you get me 5 beats in 4.
If it wasn't for Dave Brubeck and Rush, I'd still be stuck in 4/4 and 3/4 . . .
Blue Rondo ala Turk - 9/8 - 2 subdivsions (1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2-3 and 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3)...with some brutal 4/4 mixed in
I had a band that did take five, and coming out of the drum solo, we went into a little bit if the Mission Impossible theme song. Also in 5/4. It always got cheers.
I had the honor of playing backup to Dave Brubeck three times during my student years at University of the Pacific (Dave's alma mater). While the commercial album was a masterpiece, he could launch into these amazing solos when live. Learned so much about how music fit together from those experiences! I'm thrilled you've dipped your toe into this particular pool.
AMAZING!!!!
Totally experienced his wild, energizing solos when the quartet played a special concert in Ann Arbor, MI, in the early 70's. My Dad's albums were cool, but the music in person took me to a whole other place. I was like 10 feet away, 3rd row, and despite being a rock-addled teen I was RIVETED.
I got to play with him in the early 80's. He was such a super musician and a nice guy.
Met Dave after a concert of his with a dance troupe in abt 1981-82 in Shepherdstown, WV. He'd been my idol since my teens - I was thrilled!
did not know he went to UOP. super cool
Glad yer now hip to this classic. Released in '59 on the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out, written by alto sax legend Paul Desmond, Joe Morello on drums (iconic solo), Gene Wright on hypnotic bass groove. This has a permanent place in the pantheon of jazz history. It's only been part of my fabric for 40 years or so but I suspect it'll be forever. Thanks D-Nick, for listening and sharing like only you do.
Sick, they almost riffed into something else, without people thinking it was something else.
1959: Greatest Jazz Year Ever.
Amen brother.
@@RARDingo no that’s the Winstons.
@@mistakenot...4012 FTW
There is no old music. Only good music and the other kind!
That clip was from 1959. Dave Brubeck Quartet are extraordinary. Jazz legends. Dave Brubeck lived a long life. He 91 when he passed away in 2012.
He was 82 or close to 83. 1928 to 2011.
Dave Brubeck is listed on our national historic registry. When I was an 18 yr old headbanger and heard this song it BLEW ME AWAY, as a drummer I was so impressed with Joe Morello. These guys are all legends. I'm glad I got to see Brubeck perform years ago.
Dave Brubeck is the pianist and composer and the whole group is the Dave Brubeck Quartet. This tune is from their album “Time Out”.
Paul Desmond composed this one.
Wrong. What are you talking about. He is a sax player.
@@proteusaugustus Yes. He is a sax player. And yes Paul Desmond composed it. He went on to have his own jazz band. Dave wanted truly talented people in his group, his team. They played a lot of campus gigs including in the south. Gene Wright as the bass player and being black Dave was asked to replace him by the PTB's. He would cancel the performance and put the word out on Why. These were sold out concerts! The students would get 😠
And they would call him back and tell him Gene could play but in the back of everyone else. Dave would say after the first number, "Gene, there's a problem with your mike. You have to move in closer!"
Dave's wife, Iola was his manager. I believe they were married for seventy years.
@@proteusaugustus haha having the nerve to say someone is wrong without checking your facts... Paul Desmond is the composer, everyone that's interested in jazz knows that. Do you know that even drummers compose music?
@@feoysabroso I didn't say anything about who composed. All I said was Dave was the sax player. I didn't comment on the composer.
Jazz is complex enough on it's own, but the fact that everything they're doing is kept in the challenging 5/4 time signature is master in the stratosphere!
No more challenging than playing in 4/4. This tune is in fact a school band staple. I'm not saying that to disparage the great playing here, but the actual arrangement isn't that complex or that hard to learn even for a relative novice. The challenging part is in the performance & improvisation, the beautiful lyrical tone Paul Desmond can produce etc
@@zivkovicable Wow, really?! i had no idea it was that simple, so I must be the only one who has a hard time keeping that count.
|1,2,3, 1,2|1,2,3, 1,2|
True, but they are not playing the original arrangement. The high school band arrangement was done in the mid-1970’s, and it was significantly simplified.
@@tzmcneill what’s missing from the high school arrangements? The solos…Otherwise pretty much the same..
Saw them years ago, I was only a kid. What a privilege. These guys were legends, visionary, pure genius. Try Unsquare Dance in 7/4 time.
Unsquare Dance is amazing!
This was amazing!
Yes. I tried playing some of the compositions on Take Five on the violin. Oh man. It’s some kind of hard.
Dave Is on the piano 😂 band leader composer and pianist extroadinaire
Paul Desmond on sax composed this piece!
Grew up with this playing on the radio. The 5/4 rhythm was like a swaying cobra - so hypnotic. They often featured on American television in the early 60's or on European (particularly French and German) and British shows when they toured.
This was from the "Time Out" album where he experimented with different time signatures, this one being 5/4 time. It was one of four albums released in 1959 that are now credited with having a massive influence on jazz. The others being Miles Davis with "A Kind of Blue", Ornette Coleman with "The shape of jazz to come" and Charles Mingus with "Ah Um". That was quite a special year.
i saw Charles Mingus play when he was older, about 1977.
Thanks for the reaction dude. It's always gratifying to see the younger set appreciate good music.
My Dad went to North Texas State University in Denton in the early 1960s, which was/is(?) one of the top jazz schools in the country. He met my mother there in a Spanish class in like 1962. A few years ago he was telling me about going to jazz concerts while they were going to college. My dad said "Me and your mama have been backstage after a Dave Brubeck concert at North Texas." 😲!!! I said "WHAT!!! You never told me that! Those dudes are LEGENDS!!!"
I've been bragging on this one ever since... 🤤
My Mom and Dad were both Beatniks... my Dad even had bongo drums. I'm proud to say that they both marched for Civil Rights in North Texas, at a time and a place when doing that was taking your life in your hands.
Both of my parents passed away last year, my Mom went first at 78, then my Dad a month later at age 80. I miss 'em like crazy... 😭
I'd like to see a reaction to a classic from the same era, the song that launched a whole genre of music, Bossa Nova (New Trend), "The Girl from Ipanema." Be sure to listen to the original version starring Joao and Astrud Gilberto with Jobim and de Moraes, 1962.
Have a good evening
North Texas is still a great jazz school. Its the birthplace of Snarky Puppy. Check out their video of Lingus.
Great story and GREAT parents. I grew up listening to jazz that my dad listened to on a jazz only F.M. station from the early 60's in L.A. Hated it as a kid, but I always loved this song. Appreciate jazz now thanks to him.
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Heard North Texas State jazz band play at University of Notre Dame jazz band competition around 1960.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful family story. I’m so sorry for the loss of your parents. You honor them in this retelling. They sound incredibly cool.
@@kristinaschlegel2680 Thank you very much for you kind words.
One of THE classic jazz compositions of all time, done entirely in 5/4 time, which is what gives it is unique groove. It still sounds fresh and exciting all these years later.
It's almost cliché to talk about how good Take Five is, but it's legitimately one of the best jazz pieces ever written.
Masterpiece. Wish it was longer. Wow that drum solo stands up to John Bonham (Led Zeppelin). And shout out to Dave for putting his name last on the credits, shows he respects his band
Yeah I thought I heard Bonham in there too. One of John's influences perhaps.
Morello was a powerful drummer.
Agree so much about Brubeck. I saw them in Central Park (late 60s, I'm guessing, with Gerry Mulligan guesting), and Brubeck did a fantastic piano solo, and then, as the audience reacted, rather than take any sort of bow himself, he immediately threw it to Morello for the drum solo. As you say, it was all about the band, not him.
You mean bonham stands up to this drummer. Not only he does he stand up to him but polishes his shoes!
A bit of trivia for ya- this drummer, Joe Morello, once tutored Max Weinberg.
I absolutely love this. Desmond really takes us on a trip with his saxophone. Amazing.
As a jazz musician it’s hard to imagine a musical person having never heard this song before because it’s like a brick in the foundation of modern jazz. The album ‘Time Out’ was a creative adventure into a world music/jazz mash-up focusing on odd time signatures, this one being in 5/4 - hence the title ‘Take Five’ (actually written by Paul Desmond the sax player). I love live recordings, but still think I prefer the original studio version. Your innocent, unprepared response to this classic is priceless!
So good to see this wonderful music impressing a younger generation! May it live on forever.
One of the finest jazz quartets ever put together. Take Five was recorded in '58 or '59. I suggest you follow this up with Dave's version of Rondo a la Turk. Always good to see someone getting an intro to Brubeck's exceptional jazz. Cheers....
Joe Morello, 1928-2011. Drummer Joe Morello, the longtime drummer with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, has died. Raised in Springfield, Mass. with impaired vision from birth, Morello eventually found his way to New York City, where he played with many leading jazz musicians.Mar 12, 2011
The "Time Out" Album came out in 59 and was the first jazz album with entire album of Odd time signatures! This tune here, was a Paul Desmond composition.....Brubeck himself, said it was a trip to Turkey that gave him and Desmond the idea of odd times. He said most of the music over there was in odd times, and people were dancing as if it was in the normal 4/4 or even 3/4 time signatures. The drummer Joe Morello is one of the most MUSICAL Drummers....EVER!!!
Unsquare Dance has to be next.
Perhaps followed by the Dave Brubeck* version of Golden Brown: ruclips.net/video/2Qs1J612nZs/видео.html&ab_channel=LaurenceMason
My late cousin was fortunate to be a guest singer with Dave Brubeck
You moved me to tears, or that is you and the music moved me to tears. To see a youngster like you absorbing and understanding this music!!! So fine. I savored this entire presentation. (I watched Dave (piano) and the boys (his best band, these three guys) when they first came on over here in the East Bay/Concord and loved him all through the years while so many of my music people ignored him, weren't down at all with him....I never thought there was something wrong with me!! because you know what you know. I treasure that you also recognize and shared that this is some might fine jazz.) If you want to marvel some more, look for him in his later years over in Russia with an orchestra but !!! still jazz all the way. He was awesome and we still have his music. ps Paul Desmond is widely recognized as unique. No other sax player could touch him. And Joe Morello on drums!! Hallowed by all. Not to forget the inimitable Gene Wright. Eugene. Some say the bass makes all the difference to a band. xoxoox I FOUND IT/ It's a Celebration Mass in Russia, very mature, also a masterpiece.
A Super Famous song and Big Hit that is still played on Jazz and Standard Classics radio everyday some 60+ years later !!! Recorded the year I was born 1959' the Drum sol is so Great !!! : D
Joe Morello's drum signatures are studied by all jazz drummers to this day.
He plays a fine jazz piano!
In the late 80's this was on the juke box in my college bar. Very unusual but am glad it was. Must have heard it multiple times every time I was in there.
'Take 5' was written by the saxophonist, Paul Desmond and the album, 'Time Out' was the first jazz album to sell more than 1 million copies.
The dude was like way out there with innovating jazz. He did rhythms that has been created. Wrote, produced , created...what an icon
Just a foot note, remember this is in a 5/4 signature, thus the wordplay with "take five"..(it's easier if you keep 3 and 2... then you're safe)
Brubeck is on piano. Credit my dad with love of jazz from early age.....wonderful.
I love your reaction to this wonderful music. It gives me hope for the younger generation keeping great music alive. Thank you for your enthusiasm and respect for the music.
The saxophonist is paul Desmond who wrote this iconic jazz tune. Dave Brubeck is the pianist/ arranger.
It certainly is, truly a masterpiece, and deservidly recognized as such. I saw Brubeck in a tiny castle in Germany, in a small room, maybe 50 people sitting on folding chairs, an unforgetable experience.
Lovely to see somebody reacting to this, and hearing it for the first time. It is a classic jazz track, and I've loved it all my life. (I'm 66)
In 1981, I was able to get tickets to see Dave Brubeck at Tanglewood (in Western Massachusetts) , also performing was Nancy Wilson. It was a great outdoor concert, I walked to the bathroom and as I walked out from our section, I was sitting right next to Hugh Downes. When the show started, they announced a new performer, from a musical family, and we would be seeing much of this fellow in the future. The warm up act was Wynton Marsalis. No one had heard of him yet, and everyone was talking about him, until Dave started up. One musical memory I am thrilled to share with you.
It blows my mind that anyone could have gotten into their 30s without being aware of this track. It's a classic.
Lol, ok boomer (as the youth say these days). Kids have no idea about good music. They are raised on pure crap, nobody shows them the good stuff.
@@marcingorycki8723 Ok, boomer.
@@Sunflowrrunner lol. Thanks.
1959 was a long time ago. Someone 30 now was born 33 years _after_ Take Five was released.
But it is indeed a classic. For sexy "torch singers" of this era Julie London shouldn't be ignored.
Her song "Cry Me a River" catches echoes of "cool Jazz" genre nicely
@@marcingorycki8723 Card carrying Gen-X here, but I still like good music. :)
Nice to see your appreciation of this; you'll find the entire album "Time Out" and its sequel "Time Farther Out" a real wonderland. I bought both albums about 60 years ago, still have them, still love them. Time Out was the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
Ok, so I saw these guys live in Washington D.C. in 1962. I was a junior in H.S. After that afternoon concert, my brain was altered. It was like a window was opened and I could hear sounds for the first time. Obviously a huge jazz fan ever since.🎹🎷🎶🎶🎶🎶
Every time I hear this piece it’s played differently …the magic of Jazz I guess 🤗 thanks for sharing 👍✨
If memory serves me, this recording I heard on top 40s radio in 1962.
Their "Live at Carnegie Hall" double LP is absolute fire from start to finish. Well worth the listen.
I have that on vinyl and I agree
WoW 🤩 Thank you, Young Sir - TERRIFIC Post ‘n Reaction!!
This was one of my dad’s favourites…..very fond memories…cheers
This is my go to for a reference for a 5/4 time signature.. It just makes my heart feel good when I hear this song..and they manage to perform it flawlessly while wearing suit, jacket and ties 😊
My other favourite, beautiful 5/4 song is 'Everything's Alright', from Jesus Christ Superstar. As an Aussie, I love the Kate Ceberano version.. 😁🎶
...and glasses! Agree.
Try Light Flight by Pentangle and Living In The Past by Jethro Tull. Both are 5/4, I think.
@@trevorhoward2254 Also "Living in the Past" by Jethro Tull. And my favorite 5/4 example apart from Take Five - the original "Mission: Impossible" TV theme song
I prefer the original Mary Magdalene version 8-P
Wish i could tell my Brubeck story. Short version i snuck into his show at the brown theater in louisville ky got front row balcony, was 17 it changed my life. Coolest cat that ever lived
❤️❤️ been a Dave Brubeck fan for over 50 yrs 😊😊
I was 20 in 1965 and this takes me back to my good old days! This popular on Top 40 radio ! Classic!
Take Five performed in Belgium in 1964 by the Dave Brubeck Quartet:
Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Eugene Wright, bass
Joe Morello, drums
Take Five (written by Desmond and originally released by the quartet in 1959) is the biggest-selling jazz single of all time. Desmond passed away in 1977, Morello in 2011, Brubeck in 2012 and Wright in 2020.
The most famous Brubeck Quartet, but not the original.
My favorite quote about this piece is from Brubeck - "Take 5 was never supposed to be a hit, it was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo." :D
Great reaction again!
A timeless masterclass 🔥
First heard this as a boy about 55 years ago. Loved it and it is still fresh, still love it.
1959 recorded, perfect Jazz, thank you for playing this.
If you saw them "back in the day", and perhaps near some college campus, there would often be a point where the drummer would take a LONG solo and the others would just walk away and take a 15 minute or so break. Great fun. I saw Brubeck at nearly one of his last concerts and he was unsteady on his feet walking out to the piano. But once he started playing, he was still at 100%. He did a piece called "London Sharp, London Flat" that he said was very difficult for him as one hand played in a key with many sharps, the other hand in a key with many flats. He was a very big jazz influence for many years and helped bring jazz to the general public.
Probably the most sophisticated bathroom and cigarette breaks this world has experienced lol. They will live on in these phrases, forever.
I've heard the standard Take Five a million times, but that performance Blew Me Away. Thank you x
To me this is jazz's GOAT individual song. As a rock 'n' roller I can only compare it to 'Stairway to Heaven'.
Like everyone is saying, a truly legendary tune. Brubeck was part of that amazing "post-bop" era of jazz, with Miles and Coltrane taking a different track into the experimentation of the mid to late 60s (like Gary Burton, early Herbie Hancock, and of course Miles and the 20 or so bands that formed in his wake).
And even better, almost no one is reacting to jazz, so this is doubly appreciated. Bravo!
I was 11 when this was released, and I have loved ever since.
one of my all time favorite songs.
1959 was a wonderful year for Jazz.
Whenever I hear the song it's almost like I have a memory of days gone by... A smokey jazz bar downstairs in the middle of Manhattan in Chicago in the 19 40s..
Joe Morello is my all time favourite drummer. And I'm a rock singer!
I'm a prog rock and heavy metal fan, but one of my favorite guitarists is Stanley Jordan. I love how he plays with that finger tapping style with both hands on the fretboard.
The one and only jazz tune which took me years to learn on drums....and now I know!
Thanks man, for playing my favourite drum solo of all time...5/8 forever!!!
Dave is on the piano. This is my favourite tune of all time from a sublime album that changed jazz. Every song on the album is in a different time signature.
Yes, it IS a masterpiece. An absolute classic. So fun to watch someone listening to this for the first time! Thanks for doing this, super cool!
I think Take Five was the first LP I ever bought...NEW...at 11 years old. I was so far ahead, it was beautiful!. I still love watching people performing at the top of their game, in whatever context. Glad you got to react to this.
its played a little different each time. Listening to the first studio version is worth it.
It's old, it's golden era, it's pure gold.
I love how the camera person framed Dave's face through Paul Desmond's sax as he played.
I'm so jealous of these young people finding all these decades of amazing music for the first time. You get brought up listening to one genre and don't listen to anything else then BOOM out of the blue comes a hundred years of recorded music. ENJOY THE MUSIC man
I'm so happy to see young people discovering the genius of Dave Brubeck. Not only was he a great musician and composer, but he was a real gentleman & all-around sweet guy, in my opinion. My son & I went to one of his concerts years ago and his son Christopher let us backstage to visit with him in his dressing room. His wife was there too. She was a beautiful and gracious lady. It was a most memorable evening!
I hadn’t seen this film recording of Take Five before. Cinematically awesome.
One of my favorite songs ever! Whole album is a top ten. Big influence on Donald Fagan, of Steely Dan, as I understand it. Brubeck’s mother was a concert pianist, and his father was a bonafide cowboy!
The drummer was a monster ! Yes it is a masterpiece of cool jazz. What your seeing is raw talent without studios changes and auto tune just talent .
The smile on your face says it all...
This is one of the most memorable pieces of music ever created in the 20th century. Anyone interested in any genre of music should know this song..
Saw Brubeck with different musicians in Guadalajara, Mexico back in 1974. It was a great show, the crowd favorite was the harmonica player he had with him that called himself Madcat.
So nice to see a new convert to the Brubeck jazz. Check out the time they are played in. Will blow your mind. Enjoy!
awesome... love your listening ear brother... the first jazz tune written in 5/4 time
he’s good isn’t he!?
Thanks Nick! Many years and too long since I last heard this classic piece, and what a great video. I'm sure it's Dave on the piano, keeping an eye on them all!
I was fortunate to see this group in about 1957 in a live outdoor concert in Kansas City. Stood right in front of the stage, and was enthralled by the rhythm and the sax. Nobody else in my crown knew anything about jazz or blues, most of our music was emerging rock n' rol on AM radio and 45 records I'd heard this piece on FM radio and went to the gig specifically hoping they'd play this classic. I crank it up on RUclips about once a year. Still one of my favorites!
Thanks for putting on the terrific Jazz classic. Jazz is truly the American music form played by Americans from all walks of life all backgrounds going back to New Orleans where it started, its America at its best
Joe Morello on Drums was the Bomb! His Solo was cut drastically for the 45 Version! Take Five was written by Saxophonist Paul Desmond! He wrote a Followup called Take Ten by his own group.
Played this when my nephews were 8, 7, and 4.
At first they said change it, we're in the car.
I know they're gonna get hooked, see them getting into it...I change the tune.
"HEY, PUT IT BACK"
You hear it once and you will always remember it.
I grew up hearing jazz..it was always too busy for me.then along came blues and rock and roll..i was hooked..and i also used to listen to a LOT of old Motown..ahh great music days.
I saw Dave Brubeck and his band when they were all 90+ yrs old best concert I've seen
You're not kidding. It certainly is a masterpiece.
The sax player is Paul Desmond
Excellent review....all the solos are brilliant, but the drum solo, is next level.
A group of 🐐 s there, brother
Dude! You made my night. Watching you have the same moment that I experienced 35 years ago, on the night that I first heard the studio recording of this, was a real treat.
Time Out is one of my favorite albums. It was recorded live in the studio (no overdubs) with just four AKG C-12 tube mics. Wanna find out how good your system and your listening skills are? Play the original recording (not the live recording shown here) and see if you can spot the moment that two different takes were spliced together. I'll give you a hint: Listen for the sound of a cymbal ring-out to change abruptly. It's a good edit, especially considering it was done with a razor blade on analog tape, so it's not easy to find.
A masterpiece. Often imitated never equalled.
This a great song, thank you for sharing and for you thoughts on such a great song.