This coming Friday evening, plan on checking out some Jazz royalty as the Brubeck Brothers perform at SMC.
Pretty sure that this will be on their playlist.
Good version; but it is tough to top their Old Man’s original with Paul Desmond on the sax. (Note that it was Desmond who wrote Take Five and initially thought of it as a throwaway tune (click here.)
Take Five eventually became the Number One selling jazz tune of all time.
From the Memory Hotel: I first became acquainted with Take Five when Mike Raley and I attended a huge rock concert at the Poconos Raceway in 1972. We had driven up to the Raceway the day before and the next day entered the Raceway midmorning anticipating the afternoon start. The concert sound system was up and running and they had Take Five on a loop that played repeatedly for the hours preceding the concert’s start. And when I say it played repeatedly, trust me it played repeatedly. The concert announcers would periodically interrupt to provide info on the event, but Take Five would always come back on.
Initially, I got tired of hearing it so much. However, after awhile, it sorta earwormed its way into my head and voila, it has been there ever since. Every time I now hear it, I think of Mike and me at that 72 concert.