#Take five com how to#

Morello was bored playing in 4/4, so he started working with uneven time signatures for a change of pace. Paul Desmond came up with the melody, it was drummer Joe Morello who came up with the groove.

From the collection Van Vechten Collection. Most mainstream jazz was in 4/4 or occasionally 3/4 time in that era, but this album explored 9/8, 6/4, and the meter of вЂњTake FiveвЂќ: 5/4. The album consists of seven songs unified by irregular time signatures, and it was inspired by music the quartet heard while on a State Department-sponsored tour of the Middle East and India. Ironically, Columbia Records only allowed the album to be released under the assumption that the quartet would go back to recording jazz standards for subsequent projects. The song came from the album Time Out which spent 164 weeks on the Billboard 200 in 1959, and was the first jazz LP to sell one million copies. It was written by his legendary saxophonist, Paul Desmond. Five,вЂќ along with вЂњBlue Rondo a la Turk,вЂќ is a tune that is forever branded with our association of Dave Brubeck. For most of those interviews, we would meet the artist at their hotel or concert hall, but Brubeck was so humble and unassuming that he drove to our studio for an on-air conversation. I was a young student broadcaster when my dad interviewed Dave Brubeck in the late 1980s. Doc Severinsen, John Browning, Richard Stoltzman, John Wallace, and Aaron Copland all come to mind. Whenever a performing artist was touring through the area to play with the local symphony or headline a jazz festival, my dad could always pull some strings and land an interview, often giving the students access to these performers.

#Take five com how to#

He was the Program Director of a small radio station in Chesapeake, and it served as a vocational school where students could learn how to run a broadcast studio.

As a child growing up in southeastern Virginia, I got to tag along with my father on a few journalistic adventures.