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 ...

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 ...

“Next year,” said Saxophonist Paul Desmond, “maybe they could arrange to have Eisenhower at the same time.” Just about everybody else, it seemed, was on hand last week for the opening of the fifth and ...

Dave Brubeck, the legendary jazz pianist, died at a hospital in Connecticut this morning, of heart failure. He would have turned 92 tomorrow. Brubeck is best known for the album his quartet recorded ...

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 ...