{"id":1836,"date":"2021-09-24T07:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2021-09-24T07:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T06:12:27","slug":"morning-song-dave-brubeck-take-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roglacup.com\/klaus62\/2021\/09\/24\/morning-song-dave-brubeck-take-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning song# Dave Brubeck # Take Five #"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Take Five” was the third track on the album\u00a0Time Out<\/em>, recorded in 1959. That was the year\u00a0Miles Davis<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Gil Evans<\/a>\u00a0introduced the jazz audience to modal music with the landmark album\u00a0Kind of Blue<\/em>,\u00a0John Coltrane<\/a>\u00a0released\u00a0Giant Steps<\/em>\u00a0and Art Farmer and Benny Golson formed their first jazztet. A lot of new things were happening in jazz in those days, but rhythmically, the music was still being played mostly in four-four time. Brubeck had always been interested in polyrhythm and polytonality. The first theory is what drives African music; the second is tied closely to classical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brubeck had been playing in odd time signatures back in the late 1940s, but it wasn’t until he returned from a trip to Turkey in 1958 that he thought about doing an entire album in different time signatures, like six-four, three-four, nine-eight and, in “Take Five,” five-four. Brubeck’s label at the time, Columbia, didn’t know about his plans. When he finally let them in on what he was doing, the marketing department became nervous about releasing the album, and not just because of the strange meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I had a painting on the cover, and that hadn’t happened in jazz,” Brubeck said. “It may have happened in classical, I don’t know. And also, it was all originals, and they were against that. If you did all original compositions, you usually couldn’t do that. You just weren’t allowed to do that. They wanted you to do standard Broadway shows and standard tunes from the love songs of the day or the hits of the day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Posted from:https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2000\/11\/19\/1114201\/take-five<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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