I guess you actually did not open my link to that "Take 5" tune did you.
Sorry, I was at the office and we can't get to those sites.
For if you would have you would have seen a contemporary band playing it in their own style, unlike that of Brubeck.
I'll have to check it out at home. Thanks for the tip. It seems like most "jazz bands" today play "smooth jazz" or "fusion" unless they're strictly retro. That means the lead is usually a sax, just as it was on the original version of "Take Five." That's ironic, considering that in the mid-50s the sax was poised to become the defining instrument of rock'n'roll, before Chuck Berry and Dwayne Eddy took over with the guitar. "Cool jazz" often featured the flute, but the piano was arguably the most prominent jazz solo instrument. Brubeck was a bit of an iconoclast, giving Paul Desmond so many saxophone solos. Desmond was a giant.
That song established the 5/4 time signature as legitimate territory for popular music. Most people still use the swing rhythm from "Take Five," a fifteen-beat with accents on 1-3-4-6-7-10-13.
Paul Desmond is the composer, not Dave Brubeck.
Sure, but it was Brubeck's band and Brubeck's album. Everybody from that generation still refers to it as a Brubeck song.
I'm wondering where my post went from yesterday that I put here that was supposed to be approved by a MOD?
Our spiffy new software engine has some bugs in it. Only a new member's first post is supposed to go into the moderation queue, to help us fend off the army of spam-bots that are clogging up the forum and making it difficult for legitimate new members to come on board. Instead, sometimes it intercepts posts from existing members and tosses them into the moderation queue, seemingly at random.
It takes a lot of time and effort for us to wade through that queue every day--sometimes there are dozens of spams--so please be patient. What many people do is simply re-post the same thing. Odds are that the second time it will not be intercepted.
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