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Glorious version of Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’ played by Pakistani musicians
04.25.2013
12:41 pm
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Pakistani musical group, The Sachal Studios Orchestra, pays a lovely tribute to Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” as famously performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their classic 1959 album Time Out.

According to Open Culture, before he died last year, Brubeck said that it was the “most interesting” version he had ever heard. 

 
Via Open Culture

Posted by Tara McGinley
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04.25.2013
12:41 pm
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Dave Brubeck Quartet: In Concert, Germany 1966

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Dave Brubeck claimed he had 2 ambitions when he first started out as a Jazz musician - “to play polytonally and polyrhythmically.”

He also said his inspiration for rhythm was the heart beat, for this was what we heard first, and last.

Brubeck was a giant of Jazz, whose passing at the age of 91, brings an end to one of the greatest eras of American Jazz.

He popularized Jazz like few other composers/musicians of his day, becoming a household name and the first million-selling Jazz musician, who also made the cover of Time magazine in 1954. The purists didn’t like him, and many classed his brand of Jazz as “easy listening”, but this is to do him and his music a great disservice.

Take a listen to the Dave Brubeck Quartet (Brubeck - Piano, Paul Desmond - Alto Saxophone, Joe Morello - Drums, Gene Wright - Bass), filmed in concert in Germany, November 6th, 1966.

Track LIsting:

01. “Take the ‘A’ Train”
02. “Forty Days”
03. “I’m in a Dancing Mood”
04. “Koto Song”
05. “Take Five”

R.I.P. Dave Brubeck 1920-2012
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.05.2012
07:59 pm
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