Doug Ramsey's award-winning, critically acclaimed biography Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond revealed a lot about the late alto saxophonist, a quiet man who was a brilliant ...

I'm Old Fashioned; Skylark; Take Ten; Stardust; When Joanna Loved Me; Desmond Blue; Taste Of Honey; Bossa Antigua; The Night Has A Thousand Eyes; Alianca; El Condor Pasa; Samba With Some Barbeque ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Well, there you have the saxophone sound that, according to President Clinton, inspired him to take up the saxophone. That's Paul Desmond's alto sax, playing ...

SMITH: There's something about you and Paul Desmond that drew you to each other, wasn't there? What's the chemistry between you and Paul? DAVE: Yeah in spite of uh, us being very different uh, ...

Even today, 45 years after it first became famous, Paul Desmond's best-known composition, "Take Five," remains fresh and alive. It began as a rehearsal riff over an unusual 5/4 rhythm and quickly ...

Paul Desmond, an alto saxophonist, once said he tried to sound like a dry martini. He succeeded in that. Many people know jazz pianist Dave Brubeck‘s work, especially the famous 1959 Columbia session, ...

Dave Brubeck and Ahmad Jamal are two famous pianists. Aside from stylistic differences, the main distinction that separates them is that Brubeck had an alto sax player named Paul Desmond, who imbued ...

SMITH: When was the first time you heard Dave Brubeck play or heard his music? WEIN: I remember when Dave Brubeck first came to Storyville in Boston. I think the year was 1952. He was totally unknown.

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Well, there you have the saxophone sound that, according to President Clinton, inspired him to take up the saxophone. That's Paul Desmond's alto sax, playing ...