Along with a unique stereo edit of "Blue Rondo à la Turk", it was pressed in very small numbers as part of a promotional set of records sent to DJs in late 1959. The piece was also chosen to promote Columbia's ill-fated attempt to introduce 7" 33 1/3 RPM stereo singles into the marketplace, in 1959. The single is a different recording than the LP version and omits most of the drum solo. Released as a single initially on September 21, 1959, the chart potential of "Take Five" was fulfilled only after its re-release in May 1961, reaching #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 9 that year and #5 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart three weeks later. After learning from native symphony musicians about the form, Brubeck was inspired to create an album that deviated from the usual 4Ĥ time of jazz and experimented with the exotic styles he had experienced abroad. State Department-sponsored tour of Eurasia, where he observed a group of Turkish street musicians performing a traditional folk song with supposedly Bulgarian influences that was played in 9Ĩ time (traditionally called "Bulgarian meter"), rarely used in Western music. Written in the key of E-flat minor, it is known for its distinctive two-chord piano vamp catchy blues-scale saxophone melody inventive, jolting drum solo and use of the unusual quintuple (5Ĥ) time, from which its name is derived.īrubeck drew inspiration for this style of music during a U.S. "Take Five" was for several years during the early 1960s the theme music for the NBC Today program, the opening bars being played half a dozen times or more each day. Included in numerous movie and television soundtracks, it still receives significant radio play. Recorded at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio in New York City on July 1, 1959, fully two years later it became an unlikely hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. "Take Five" is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out. (1959) "Camptown Races / Short'nin' Bread" The Dave Brubeck Quartet singles chronology For other uses, see Take Five (disambiguation).
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