Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet. 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. The song is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. | 1960s Music Originals

This was brilliant! Take Five is one of the most famous jazz tunes of all time and the story of how the piece came to be written was equally fascinating. Dave Brubeck along with musicians such as Paul Desmond who is playing alto sax on the original track and is also its composer, went in search of rhythms beyond their culture. Most musicians know that 4/4 refers to a standard time signature where there are four beats in every bar. 3/4 or waltz time was also quite popular but it was practically u