And I'm Michel Martin. On this day, 65 years ago, pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet went into a recording studio in New York City and produced what would become the bestselling jazz single of all ...
Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering performance on Take Five was heard around the world, has died at the age of 91. He died of heart failure after being stricken while on his way ...
Tull’s leader thought using the 5/4 rhythm from Brubeck’s “Take Five” would be commercial suicide, but listeners proved him ...
Dave Brubeck, a pianist and composer whose distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility made him one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and 60s, died Wednesday morning in ...
This one is a mash up of Radiohead’s “15 Step” and Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five”. It’s a very cool idea, but gets a little awkward at times. The songs have such different feels to them that blending them ...
MARTIN: This is "Take Five." Clearly, they made it swing, but it wasn't easy. Brubeck was trying to work in an unusual time signature. Most popular music is in 4/4 time - you know, one, two, three, ...