Take Five

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"Take Five"
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Single by Dave Brubeck Quartet
from the album Time Out
B-side "Blue Rondo à la Turk"
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1959 (1959-09-21);
May 22, 1961 (reissue)
RecordedJuly 1, 1959
Studio CBS 30th Street, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length
  • 2:55(single version)
  • 5:28(album version)
Label Columbia 4-41479
Composer(s) Paul Desmond
Producer(s) Teo Macero
Dave Brubeck Quartet singles chronology
"Jazz Impressions of Eurasia"
(1958)		"Take Five" / "Blue Rondo à la Turk"
(1959)		"Camptown Races" / "Short'nin' Bread"
(1959)

"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. [1] [2] Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.

Contents

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, and the injunction, "Take five", meaning "take a break for five minutes". The track is written in E♭ minor and is in ternary (ABA) form.

Released as a promotional single in September 1959, "Take Five" became a sleeper hit in 1961, and then went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time. The track still receives significant radio airplay.

Background and recording

The Dave Brubeck Quartet's U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of Eurasia in 1958 inspired Brubeck to create an album, Time Out , that experimented with odd time signatures like ones he had encountered abroad. [3] [4] [5] "Take Five" was composed after most of the album's music had been written. [3] The Quartet's drummer, Joe Morello, frequently soloed in 5
4 time and asked Brubeck to compose a new piece to showcase his ability. [3] [6] Brubeck delegated Desmond to write a tune using Morello's rhythm. [6] Desmond composed two melodies, [lower-alpha 1] which Brubeck arranged in ternary form. [8]

The Quartet first tried recording "Take Five" on June 25, 1959. [1] It proved so arduous that, after 40 minutes and more than 20 failed attempts, producer Teo Macero suspended the effort because one or another of the members kept losing the beat. [9] This iteration of the tune used a different rhythmic groove than the final version; it was "driving and fast" with a "lopsided Latin rhythm". [10] They successfully recorded the single and the album track in two takes at the next session on July 1. [1] [9] Desmond considered the track a "throwaway". [3] The Quartet first played "Take Five" for a live audience at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 5, 1959. [11]

Composition

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"Take Five"
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"Take Five" is written in the key of E♭ minor, [12] in ternary (ABA) form [8] and in quintuple (5
4) time. According to Alfred Publishing's sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, the song has a moderately fast tempo of 176 beats per minute. [12] The song is known for its distinctive two-chord piano/bass vamp (E♭m-B♭m7), cool jazz saxophone melodies, drum solo, [lower-alpha 2] and unorthodox meter, from which Dave Brubeck derived its name. [3] [13] Desmond believed the borderline decision to retain his bridge melody was key to the tune gaining popularity. [14]

Rhythmically, the five beats to the bar are split unevenly into 3 + 2 quarter notes; that is, the main accents (and chord changes) are on the first and fourth beats. The album version has ten sections: [15] [16]

SectionDescription
Intro Drum enters, joined by piano after 4 bars and bass after 8 bars to set up 5
4 rhythm with syncopated two-chord (E♭m–B♭m7) vamp
AAAlto sax plays main melody (A), based on E♭-minor hexatonic blues scale, [lower-alpha 3] in two similar 4-bar phrases
BBAlto sax plays bridge melody (B), based on G♭-major scale, in two similar 4-bar phrases
AA Reprise
Solo 1Alto sax plays improvised modal [17] solo, based on E♭-minor hexatonic blues scale, [lower-alpha 4] over vamp [lower-alpha 5]
Solo 2Drum fades in playing improvised solo, halfway through which the vamp abruptly crescendoes before fading down to near-silence as solo ends
AAReprise, cued by intro vamp played softly before alto sax swiftly rejoins with main melody
BBReprise
AAReprise
Tag Alto sax plays repeated 4-note riffs from main melody, ending with final note sustained for 3 bars over vamp

Release and chart success

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Paul Desmond (1954)

Although released as a promotional [18] single on September 21, 1959, [lower-alpha 6] "Take Five" became a sleeper hit in 1961. In May 1961, the track was reissued for radio play and jukebox use, [19] partly in response to its heavy rotation on the radio station WNEW in New York City. [20] That year, it reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 (October 9), [21] [lower-alpha 7] No. 5 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart (October 23) [22] and No. 6 on the UK Record Retailer chart (November 16). [23] In 1962, it peaked at No. 8 both in the New Zealand Lever Hit Parade (January 11) [24] and the Dutch Single Top 100 (February 17). [25] The single is a different recording from the LP version and omits most of the drum solo. [26] It became the first jazz single to surpass a million in sales, [27] reaching two million by the time Brubeck disbanded his 'classic' quartet in December 1967. [28]

Columbia Records quickly enlisted "Take Five" in their doomed launch of the 33+1⁄3-rpm stereo single in the marketplace. Together with a unique stereo edit of "Blue Rondo à la Turk", they pressed the full album version in small numbers for a promotional six-pack of singles sent to DJs in late 1959. [29]

News of Brubeck's death on December 5, 2012 rekindled the popularity of "Take Five" across Europe, the single debuting in the Austrian Top 40 at No. 73 (December 14) [30] and the French Singles Chart at No. 48 (December 15) [31] while re-entering the Dutch charts at No. 50 (December 15). [25]

Chart performance for "Take Five"
ChartPeak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [21] 25
US Billboard Easy Listening [22] 5
UK Singles (OCC) [32] 6
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade) [24] 8
Australia (Kent Music Report) [33] 7
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [34] 8
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [35] 73
France (SNEP) [36] 48

Future within the Quartet

The saxophonist, Desmond, wrote and recorded the similar-sounding (and similarly named) composition "Take Ten" for his 1963 solo album Take Ten ; [37] he released another rendition of "Take Ten" on his 1973 album Skylark . Over the next 50 years the group re-recorded it many times, and typically used it to close concerts: each member, upon completing his solo, would leave the stage as in Haydn's Farewell Symphony until only the drummer remained ("Take Five" having been composed to feature Morello's mastery of 5
4 time). [38] [3] [39] Upon his death from lung cancer in 1977, Desmond left the performance royalties for his compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, [40] [41] which has since received payments averaging well over $100,000 a year. [42] [43]

Legacy

Take Five was positively received both in its release and current times and is the biggest-selling jazz single of all time. [38] [44] In 2020, The New York Times called the standard "among the most iconic records in Jazz". [1] The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996. [45] It has received subsequently replay in movie and television soundtracks, [46] giving it continued radio airplay.

Covers and adaptations

"Take Five" is considered a jazz standard [3] and has been covered many times in a variety of genres. [47] The first known cover was by Carmen McRae on the 1961 live album Take Five Live , supported by Brubeck, Gene Wright and Morello. [48] [49] For the recording, McRae sang lyrics written by Brubeck's wife Iola; these lyrics would later be used for other vocal recordings.

Jamaican saxophonist Val Bennett covered the song in 1968 in a roots reggae style, in 4
4 time, and retitled "The Russians Are Coming". [50] Bennett's version became the theme of British television series The Secret Life of Machines in the late 1980s. Al Jarreau recorded an acclaimed scat version of the song for NDR Television in Hamburg, West Germany on October 17, 1975. [51] Moe Koffman recorded a cover for his 1996 album Devil’s Brew. In 2011, a version by Pakistan's Sachal Studios Orchestra won widespread acclaim and charted highly on American and British jazz charts. [52] Canadian animator Steven Woloshen created the 2003 animated short film Cameras Take Five , which animated an improvised series of abstract lines and figures set to the song. [53]

Track listing

Take Five / Blue Rondo à la Turk (1959)
No.TitleLength
1."Take Five"2:50
2."Blue Rondo à la Turk"2:59

Personnel

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Dave Brubeck Quartet (1962)

Notes

  1. ↑ Desmond's second, bridge melody converts the first five notes of the song "Sunday, Monday, or Always" (a 1943 chart-topper for Bing Crosby) into a rhythmically-altered four-note hook, [7] repeated during a four-bar chord progression that descends diatonically (C♭7-B♭m7-A♭m7-G♭7).
  2. ↑ Featured in the album version but not the single.
  3. ↑ With one added note, F♮.
  4. ↑ With two extra notes, F♮ and C♮. By contrast, Crist (2019) classifies Desmond's solo as based on the B♭-minor Aeolian scale [17] with one added note, A♮ (the 'blue note' of the E♭-minor hexatonic blues scale).
  5. ↑ There is an edit in the album track at 2:00 (4 bars after the saxophone solo ends), perhaps to remove a piano solo or to splice the two best solos together. [11]
  6. ↑ Almost three months before its parent album Time Out was itself released.
  7. ↑ Its parent album Time Out, likewise reissued in 1961, peaked on November 27 that year at No. 2 on the Billboard Monaural LPs chart (behind only Judy at Carnegie Hall by Judy Garland).

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