One of those tunes that absolutely everybody knows. You don't have to know the artist, the song name, or even be a jazz fan to recognize this tune. I don't see this fading away anytime soon. RIP Brubeck. Your music will live on.
I just mentioned this to my brother. When I was little 50 years ago in UK this was everywhere and as a child in my mind and never forgotten. To me it's like a time travel piece of music to when I felt and have never felt again 😊😊
john nixon ,this is a priceless piece of pure magic ,im a 73 years young female who remembers the same .....utter joy ,i get cold chills every time i hear take five x
Truly, "Take 5" is a classic. This is the type of song we life vets should share with the younger people in our lives to introduce them to our music and to help them understand why we loved it, and continue to love it, so much.
Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on odd time signatures during his state sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple (5 4) meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello's rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track's name is derived from its meter. The track is written in E♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form. Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
This song was/is a phenomenon of jazz. The timing is insane. Yet the smoothness is addictive. I just LOVE this song. What UNIQUE talent there is in this one piece. There will NEVER be another like it. That's why I call it a phenomenon. Loved it as a young lady, love it as an older lady.... Simple the coolest of COOL !
These guys changed the history of modern music. We have all drank in their springs of anti-square rythms beats and fluent and astonishing melodies building arpegio-like harmonies. Dave flew through his keyboards in an informal piano display of musical wisdom and jazz creativity. They are all legend; they are all inmortal.
As an old saxaphonist, This has always been my favorite Dave Brubeck Song. At the age of 67, I still enjoy listening to it as I am now, while writing these comments. I seem to hear something new each time I listen, including the wonderful drum and piano playing, along with the saxaphone.
Wish my son would play this for me some day. May have to dust the old sax off to do that. How about playing this for your audience "The New Buddy Holly Band"?
As a 15 year old 'beatnik' in 1959 I purchased this LP! Its still as overwhelming today as it was then. Unless you were 'there' in the early 60's no one can explain the buzz life gave you and how the music freed you. Yes, way before its time!!!
From the beginning of our time together, Paul and I, in his Studio at 36 Causeway Street, 1956, and it was wonderful,with the guy who would spend his time with me, including marriage until now, 2016, Two children, a wonderful time together. We love it all. Went to hear this and other wonderful artists, in the Boston area, South End, what a history. Not to be forgotten. Love it, love hearing it again tonight, 4-15-16
RIP As a five or six year old I remember this song being played at various times on TV or radio and I equated it with representing the epitome of adult sophistication. Who knew the brilliant mind behind that legendary song would still be around until I turned gray. Loved the song. Sad to see he is gone.
exactly man at the end of the day music is just about how it makes you feel, whether its american jazz, techno or my personal favourite rap group from new zealand man, if its good its good. its that simple
Easily one of the best Jazz songs ever written. It's just so easy to be taken in and lose yourself in the music within the first few bars. You can feel what Brubeck felt when he wrote this... Pure masterpiece.
A ten years boy can play the piano like Brubeck in this masterpiece. He repeat, and repeat, 100 times. And Paul Desmond zig zag through. And I can hear it one million times. That's the magic of this song.
If I could have any music that played as I walked, it would be this. So smooth. Was way before my time, but I'll be damned if I don't enjoy the music my elders did.
In 1959, for my 11th birthday, my uncle gave me Time Out. He'd played Take Five for me & l-o-v-e-d it immediately! Unc started me on my lifelong love of Jazz. I'll miss you both! xxx
Yes indeed, and that drummer is the fantastic Mr. Joe Morello, and he is the only drummer that has ever been able to perform that excellent solo in the highly unusual time signature of 5/4. Most drummers lose their way just trying to insert all of the correct breaks while maintaining the rhythm. Many others have tried to duplicate that one-of-a-kind solo but Joe is the only one (that I have ever heard during my 52 years associated with the sound and recording industry) that can do it justice! Joe was.....the man!
I first heard this as an elementary school student in music class in the early 70s. Our teacher played this tune to give us an example of jazz. What a fine example it was! I can't remember the teacher's name, but I never forgot the name Dave Brubeck, and I was hooked on jazz from that moment on. Rest in peace.
What can I say but this is one of them tunes that you just love to listen to time after time. Takes me right back to the 60s. So easy on the ears 😂😉👍🙌👌. Thanks Dave Brubeck Quartet.👍😃
i was just a little kid when i heard this song it always bugged me what the name of it was i could not get it out of my head now what it is and iam a happier person for it thank you dave brubeck for it
im 24 and ive loved this song for ten years. light ur stogie and tell ur bunny to get u a gin n tonic. this is the most straightforward chillin jazz track ive come across. thank u to both my gramps for bein G enough to let me hear this. this led me to my drums
My dad was into this type of Jazz...My siblings and I listened to this on the radio while going for a Family outing...😊and Green Onions by Booker T...Sweet memories
omg... been listening to this since i was a kid on the WAVE radio station... im 18 taking a jazz class and i finally learn the name of the piece amazing
Played this in middle school, it was a great song. I still listen to it clearly, getting into jazz band has shown me a bunch of great songs that are played greatly
This song is getting me through law school. If I have heavy subject matter, I just blast this and envision the material come to life in the real world. My FAVE!
Thank you, Dave....for all the jazz music you've done to everyone of us all over the world. We sure gonna miss you. May he rest in peace with his grand piano.
I know I wasn't in high school yet when this came out. I was hooked on it from the moment I heard it. A classmate, from the class of 1964, just said he was listening to it while cooking. So, here I am, listening to it myself as are other classmates who saw his post. Loving it.
i heard it on accuradio first just now.....and fell for it. So here I am. Thanks to youtube ......and yes , I am simply in awe of Paul Desmond and The Dave Brubeck Quartet.....
Cet album de Columbia Records, avec cette belle couverture dont je ne connais pas l'auteur, m'accompagne depuis mon adolescence. Il voyagea avec moi de Grèce en France en 1967, et il reste a portée de ma main et de mes oreilles. Chaque fois que je le mets, je me lève et je danse. Génial, immortel Brubeck..
"Take Five" was the album that got me interested in collecting records, and the one that first got me started on jazz music. Thank you, Mr. Brubeck, for the legacy you left behind! You will not be forgotten!
This is so far ahead of it's time. Dave was an icon, an inspiration to me, and I wish him well jamming in Heaven with the best band ever imaginable. Rest in Peace.
Indémodable, entrainante, cette mélodie me fais toujours autant vibrer. Et je l'écoute depuis plus de 15 ans. Je crois que ce n'est pas fini! Elle est toujours là, je reviens vers elle, que je sois triste, joyeuse ou simplement rêveuse...
For a very long time I've looked for this song. Couldn't even begin to tell you the excitement I felt when I finally shazzamed it in a kroger a few days ago thank you very much for helping me add another song to my music collection
Jazz doesn't get much cooler than this: just a drummer who specialized in odd time signatures, the bandleader at the piano, and a saxophonist with nothing to prove.
HOW does the drummer keep this unusual timing. I can't even follow it in my mind, though I love it. What an unusual song. Beautiful jazz - it won't happen again. This was a one-time song - so addictive. A never-get-tired- of-it song......
i was like 3 the first time i heard this song and always loved it. It played on an episode of Supernatural an I just had to hear again. Music it truly universal
Before my time, I was born in '59, but this is the coolest piece of music ever, played it loud, at 5:30 on morning while waiting to go into work, wow...
My first year in high school, my home room teacher, an art teacher, played this record everyday. It became a part of me, and reminds me of those days everytime I hear it.
In my opinion the most iconic jazz song ever
Paul Verlain that and "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman
Iconic tune
In the top 10
One of those tunes that absolutely everybody knows. You don't have to know the artist, the song name, or even be a jazz fan to recognize this tune. I don't see this fading away anytime soon. RIP Brubeck. Your music will live on.
I just mentioned this to my brother. When I was little 50 years ago in UK this was everywhere and as a child in my mind and never forgotten.
To me it's like a time travel piece of music to when I felt and have never felt again 😊😊
I first heard Take Five 54 years ago, it knocked me dead then and still does today. It is Magnificent and Ageless.
john nixon ,this is a priceless piece of pure magic ,im a 73 years young female who remembers the same .....utter joy ,i get cold chills every time i hear take five x
John Nixon Take Five ! Big Al Collins ! Every morning as a kid !!!
54 years ago... 5/4 rhythm. nice
Truly, "Take 5" is a classic. This is the type of song we life vets should share with the younger people in our lives to introduce them to our music and to help them understand why we loved it, and continue to love it, so much.
@@janeough45 - You are really a young Take Five mania, while I am an old one, who is 72 years, ha,ha,,,,,
Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an album based on odd time signatures during his state sponsored 1958 Eurasia trip. The track was written after the Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple (5
4) meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello's rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track's name is derived from its meter. The track is written in E♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form.
Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. "Take Five" went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
This song was/is a phenomenon of jazz. The timing is insane. Yet the smoothness is addictive. I just LOVE this song. What UNIQUE talent there is in this one piece. There will NEVER be another like it. That's why I call it a phenomenon. Loved it as a young lady, love it as an older lady.... Simple the coolest of COOL !
This piece is the pure definition of -- COOLNESS --
The most beautiful piece of music ever made hands down!!!
Pplp
4 amazing men together at the right time in history to complete a classic piece of music.
These guys changed the history of modern music. We have all drank in their springs of anti-square rythms beats and fluent and astonishing melodies building arpegio-like harmonies. Dave flew through his keyboards in an informal piano display of musical wisdom and jazz creativity. They are all legend; they are all inmortal.
Bruh do write that much
man you can write
I was ten when I first listened to this......and that was the beginning of my love for jazz.
This is Paul Desmond's masterpiece. That tone is so elegant.
Nucleus Medical Media You nailed it...Very elegant! Kind of a "cool elegance" like Grace Kelly.
well said
Nucleus Medical Media: I agree 100% Way before its time. It's simply brilliant.
Tia Mia ī
Elegant and refined. Especially his top-end.
The best of Dave Brubeck
I saw no one else had done lyrics for this video, so I listened to it several times to get them.
You're welcome.
doo - bup - da - bowwawup - do - bow -- bdrdrdr - bu - bwddrdrr - buuu
As an old saxaphonist, This has always been my favorite Dave Brubeck Song. At the age of 67, I still enjoy listening to it as I am now, while writing these comments. I seem to hear something new each time I listen, including the wonderful drum and piano playing, along with the saxaphone.
May I join you in celebrating the talents of great jazz technicians and living during this time in music...it must be an "old timers" thing.
me too Michael~
Carol Baker 22-year-old drummer here. Just want you to know this music will live on!
Bill Willow Bill, you are only 22...glad "the young" will carry on the classics!
Wish my son would play this for me some day. May have to dust the old sax off to do that. How about playing this for your audience "The New Buddy Holly Band"?
As a 15 year old 'beatnik' in 1959 I purchased this LP! Its still as overwhelming today as it was then. Unless you were 'there' in the early 60's no one can explain the buzz life gave you and how the music freed you. Yes, way before its time!!!
Indeed 1949 here!
One of the greatest music pieces of all time.
From the beginning of our time together, Paul and I, in his Studio at 36 Causeway Street, 1956, and it was wonderful,with the guy who would spend his time with me, including marriage until now, 2016, Two children, a wonderful time together. We love it all. Went to hear this and other wonderful artists, in the Boston area, South End, what a history. Not to be forgotten. Love it, love hearing it again tonight, 4-15-16
RIP As a five or six year old I remember this song being played at various times on TV or radio and I equated it with representing the epitome of adult sophistication.
Who knew the brilliant mind behind that legendary song would still be around until I turned gray.
Loved the song.
Sad to see he is gone.
What a great piece of music.
Now this is what you call, "Cool ass music".
+kidbean1 Finally. Somebody put into words the thought I couldn't figure out how to.
kidbean1 in bel di
Respect aux disparus.
"Take Five" m'a donné - adolescent- l'envie de m'intéresser au" jazz ".
Merci.
where these guysy today,,, wow, they weretop of the POPS !!! GBY XXX
One of the best jazz compositions ever. I've always loved the syncopation of the drums whilst the piano is keeping the beat in the middle section!
Man, Desmond plays with such a full sound, that saxophone is like cream and fortified wine coming out of the speakers.
my mom sat me down at age 4 to listen to this live album..its stayed with me since
I'm only 21 and I listen to rap music but I had to download this when I heard it. Great relaxing song.
there's a lot of great old music out there. explore it young man.
Agreed. I'm an 80s baby, but I listen to a lot of older stuff, no genre specific either.
exactly man at the end of the day music is just about how it makes you feel, whether its american jazz, techno or my personal favourite rap group from new zealand man, if its good its good. its that simple
You're acquiring taste for good music now....
It's like they go hand in hand
Easily one of the best Jazz songs ever written. It's just so easy to be taken in and lose yourself in the music within the first few bars. You can feel what Brubeck felt when he wrote this... Pure masterpiece.
My absolute favorite jazz composition.
A ten years boy can play the piano like Brubeck in this masterpiece. He repeat, and repeat, 100 times. And Paul Desmond zig zag through. And I can hear it one million times. That's the magic of this song.
its the feeling you now nothing
If I could have any music that played as I walked, it would be this. So smooth. Was way before my time, but I'll be damned if I don't enjoy the music my elders did.
I always pictured myself walking down a street in New York City. It just seems to fit.
I don't have a cool walk. I just think it's good walking music.
Dominique Heflin ive thought the same many times as well about bitches brew.but,this has gotta be the coolest jazz tune ever.
Well said
Dominique Heflin this would be kinda difficult to walk to tho
In 1959, for my 11th birthday, my uncle gave me Time Out. He'd played Take Five for me & l-o-v-e-d it immediately! Unc started me on my lifelong love of Jazz. I'll miss you both! xxx
Oh my God!!!! This so beautiful. The drums
Yes indeed, and that drummer is the fantastic Mr. Joe Morello, and he is the only drummer that has ever been able to perform that excellent solo in the highly unusual time signature of 5/4. Most drummers lose their way just trying to insert all of the correct breaks while maintaining the rhythm. Many others have tried to duplicate that one-of-a-kind solo but Joe is the only one (that I have ever heard during my 52 years associated with the sound and recording industry) that can do it justice! Joe was.....the man!
私が中学生のころこのレコードを購入し聞いていましたが、その時の感動は、今も変わらない。すばらしい曲ですね。今６６歳です。
I first heard this as an elementary school student in music class in the early 70s. Our teacher played this tune to give us an example of jazz. What a fine example it was! I can't remember the teacher's name, but I never forgot the name Dave Brubeck, and I was hooked on jazz from that moment on. Rest in peace.
Absolutely love this song, played this my senior year of high school in jazz band...loved the swing and sass of this track!
自宅でくつろいでいる時に時々聞いています。ポール デスモンドのアルトサックスも良い響きですね。
The exit from the drum solo back into the sax riff is super cool.
What can I say but this is one of them tunes that you just love to listen to time after time. Takes me right back to the 60s. So easy on the ears 😂😉👍🙌👌. Thanks Dave Brubeck Quartet.👍😃
Simply magnificent.
i was just a little kid when i heard this song it always bugged me what the name of it was i could not get it out of my head now what it is and iam a happier person for it thank you dave brubeck for it
Timeless classic. Forever.... :)
im 24 and ive loved this song for ten years. light ur stogie and tell ur bunny to get u a gin n tonic. this is the most straightforward chillin jazz track ive come across. thank u to both my gramps for bein G enough to let me hear this. this led me to my drums
My dad was into this type of Jazz...My siblings and I listened to this on the radio while going for a Family outing...😊and Green Onions by Booker T...Sweet memories
I can honestly say this influenced my musical tastes over the years. THANKS MOM & DAD FOR SHARING GOOD MUSIC WITH US KIDS!
omg... been listening to this since i was a kid on the WAVE radio station... im 18 taking a jazz class and i finally learn the name of the piece amazing
Played this in middle school, it was a great song. I still listen to it clearly, getting into jazz band has shown me a bunch of great songs that are played greatly
Crappy time of my life now - great to hear this old stuff; such great music and musicians!
This song is getting me through law school. If I have heavy subject matter, I just blast this and envision the material come to life in the real world. My FAVE!
I was lucky to see this man play the piano with such grace and cool. We will miss you.
Excellent Jazz !!!!!!!
Keep calm and share this if you are my friend.
The drums, the piano riff, the solists, the theme... This piece reaches the perfection
After all these years, still cool.
Totally
I've burned through 3 or 4 copies of this album.
+Robert Yuna haha how?
Very cool.
Right you are Robert Yuna! "Take Five" will always be cool. it's unique, timeless and unequaled.
Never get tired of this album. Many memories flick by!
Great song!
何度聴いても飽きのこない曲
ドラムのサウンドが胸に突き刺さる。
Thank you, Dave....for all the jazz music you've done to everyone of us all over the world. We sure gonna miss you. May he rest in peace with his grand piano.
One of the great sax players of all time!
I know I wasn't in high school yet when this came out. I was hooked on it from the moment I heard it. A classmate, from the class of 1964, just said he was listening to it while cooking. So, here I am, listening to it myself as are other classmates who saw his post. Loving it.
Speechless!! I LOVE this song! No matter time passes by It remains a magnificent song!
RIP, man. Your music made me smile. Thank you. Enjoy the great gig in the sky!
I was born in June 29 1959 & i love this classic. Amazing music.
June 30 1949 here
@@newyorkukuleleschool1425 nice girl indeed!
i heard it on accuradio first just now.....and fell for it. So here I am. Thanks to youtube ......and yes , I am simply in awe of Paul Desmond and The Dave Brubeck Quartet.....
Cet album de Columbia Records, avec cette belle couverture dont je ne connais pas l'auteur, m'accompagne depuis mon adolescence. Il voyagea avec moi de Grèce en France en 1967, et il reste a portée de ma main et de mes oreilles. Chaque fois que je le mets, je me lève et je danse. Génial, immortel Brubeck..
RIP Dave Brubeck
RIP Dave Brubeck you have earned your "Five"
"Take Five" was the album that got me interested in collecting records, and the one that first got me started on jazz music. Thank you, Mr. Brubeck, for the legacy you left behind! You will not be forgotten!
Warto żyć, żeby słuchać.
This is so far ahead of it's time. Dave was an icon, an inspiration to me, and I wish him well jamming in Heaven with the best band ever imaginable. Rest in Peace.
Que belleza de tema. Sin ser de esa generación me transporta a esa época.
grew up listening to this version . my favorite. just a beautiful and perfect song. this is song i want played when i croak.
Indémodable, entrainante, cette mélodie me fais toujours autant vibrer. Et je l'écoute depuis plus de 15 ans. Je crois que ce n'est pas fini! Elle est toujours là, je reviens vers elle, que je sois triste, joyeuse ou simplement rêveuse...
One of the finest pieces of music ever produced, you will be greatly missed Mr. Brubeck
I was 10 years old when I first heard this..on a transistor radio...haven't been the same since...mesmerized..jazzed out of my mind..still am..🎷🎷🥁🎹🎧🎤
I discovered music listening to my mother's records... listening to this ! big thumbs up !
#1 in the Top 1000 songs ever recorded.
This was my dad's and my all time favorite song. Now Dave can play it for him live... Rest in peace man.
Who wouldn't like this? RIP Mr. Brubeck, thank you for making all that great music.
For a very long time I've looked for this song. Couldn't even begin to tell you the excitement I felt when I finally shazzamed it in a kroger a few days ago thank you very much for helping me add another song to my music collection
Jazz doesn't get much cooler than this: just a drummer who specialized in odd time signatures, the bandleader at the piano, and a saxophonist with nothing to prove.
HOW does the drummer keep this unusual timing. I can't even follow it in my mind, though I love it. What an unusual song. Beautiful jazz - it won't happen again. This was a one-time song - so addictive. A never-get-tired- of-it song......
The photo of them, reunited and playing together, spoke to me on an indescribably deep level
This is a classic by any definition! I was a young boy when I first heard it and it still sounds great!!
Ima take 5 now and enjoy my peace.
i was like 3 the first time i heard this song and always loved it. It played on an episode of Supernatural an I just had to hear again. Music it truly universal
Before my time, I was born in '59, but this is the coolest piece of music ever, played it loud, at 5:30 on morning while waiting to go into work, wow...
RIP Dave Brubeck. No words.
Too cool.
Wow, this is composure, Good music, sometimes evolving means losing something greater, such music should remain the same...
how do you mean?
Simply beautiful classical jazz music indeed! from my favorite planet Earth.
Jau, this is fantastic, never heard it that way, often in Radio but never really listened, ageless
Whoa, I think I'm gonna be listening to jazz and blues more now. Dave Brubeck has gotten me on the hook.
Released two years before I was born.............& still sounds magic !
Surely music like this must still exist today. Where can I go to hear stuff like this live??
this is one of the best songs I've ever heard...I cant stop listening to it
Jesus I just found this piece of jazz after having a bad few months. Renews my being. Thanks Dave.
Can it ever get better than this jazz hit?...Has got to be no.1 all time..
Whenever I think of Jazz Music this song always seemed to define it for me. Great song that transcends the generations. You will be missed Dave.
I looooooooove this!
from back in the days when Jazz, country and rock n' roll were all in the charts and it was real talent and real music!!
Thanx for everything, Dave. Although you lived into your 90s, you left us WAY too soon.
the best Drummer from alltime and my big RESPECT! ;)
My first year in high school, my home room teacher, an art teacher, played this record everyday. It became a part of me, and reminds me of those days everytime I hear it.