Joe from Vancouver, CanadaIt's strange how well this song works in 5/4.Guy from Woodinville, WaThis song defines jazz for so much of the population! Jazz is actually much more,of course, but this was a watershed recording.It shows that, as long as the musicians are tight, you can have a catchy song in all kinds of time signatures. It's a good bridge between the tuneful 'standard' Jazz that people can sing along to and the more essoteric improvisational stuff. This song has made a lot of the spillage. Liam from Leeds, United KingdomActually, most of the population would say they don't like Jazz without considering that so much of their lives is deeply soaked in the thing. Brubeck was a humble guy who, even after traveling the world and living in Connecticut for more than 50 years, still seemed to retain the aw-shucks aura of a cowboy from an earlier, more rural time.I recently got hold of a Tito Puente Live version of this. Marissa from Akron, OhWe sang this in choir in high school.Kjzr Radio from Long Beach, CaThis is the updated version correct?.Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, CaWhat does someone do for an encore? stand on their head and stack bb's?.lol what a genius record!.Donald Fagan wrote the line in his song 'New Frontier' - 'I hear you're mad about Brubeck - I like your eyes, I like him too - He's an artist, a pioneer - We've got to have some music on the new frontier' This type chord progression influenced oodles of players in the 1960's to experiment with jazz chord voicings and melodic improvisation. Chilcox from Atchison, KsEbm7 to Bbm7 then Bmaj7 - Bbm7 - Abm7 - F#maj7 - F5 - Bb5.It reached #5 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. One year earlier on September 11th, 1961 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #64 and on October 9th it peaked at #25 (for 1 week) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 17th 1962, the Dave Brubeck Quartet performed 'Take Five' on CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'.Kylie from Dequincy Louisiana I hate my music appreciation class I have to do a stupid worksheet on this stupid take five song like its so out of this generation it sucks like just eww.Kent from TexasI don't think Kylie will ever appreciate music ewwww.Jack Fisher from Las VegasI don't think Kylie knows what music is.James from TexasI was introduced to Dave Bruce King Quartet, while taking a History of Jazz course in college.

Charlie from Auckland, New ZealandI betcha Kylie from Dequincy, Louisiana just chose that music class at random.Gabriel from Melbourne, AustraliaKylie getting flamed in the comments kinda funny ngl, also this song is unusually satisfying, the fact that it stays in tempo even being over the normal 4/4 time signature.

Brubeck take five live