Take Five
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Before you press play
Facts will show up here as the band plays.
12345
0:00 / 7:25
The song in six parts
About the song
Paul Desmond wrote Take Five for Time Out, the Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 album built on unusual rhythms. Columbia expected the album to flop. Instead, Take Five is often called the first jazz single to sell a million copies. This film catches the quartet five years later on stage in Belgium, with a piano solo that isn't on the record.
- Written by
- Paul Desmond
- First recorded
- 1959, for the album Time Out
- This film
- Live in Belgium, 1964
- The band
- Paul Desmond, alto sax. Dave Brubeck, piano. Eugene Wright, bass. Joe Morello, drums.