Brubeck said it's a good idea to shake things up a bit, and that's exactly what he did with the song "Take Five." Brubeck had been playing in odd time signatures back in the late 1940s ...

David Warren Brubeck, who was born in Concord ... The Dave Brubeck Quartet's pieces such as Take Five have become became enduring standards and owed much to the graceful alto saxophone playing ...

David Warren Brubeck (Dec. 6, 1920 - Dec. 5, 2012) was born in Concord ... To close this Piano Jazz, Brubeck and McPartland take the session to bedrock with a ringing duet of "St. Louis Blues." ...

Its most celebrated track, "Take Five," was the first jazz single ... In 2005, he composed 'The Commandments,'' a choral work. David Warren Brubeck was born on Dec. 6, 1920, in Concord, Calif.

There are songs in the Brubeck book, including "Take Five, " "Blue Rondo a la Turk, " "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke, " that have become standards. And he's composing constantly.

“Take Five,” a 1959 track by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was always a musical oddity: a swinging, instantly catchy jazz piece written in the uncommon time signature of 5/4. But it was also a ...

The tributes that poured in after his death tended to focus on the same themes: He was the jazz legend whose “Dave Brubeck Quartet” gave the world the jazz standard “Take Five,” he ...

Dave Brubeck, one of jazz's longest-lasting legends, has died. Best known for the playful 1959 hit "Take Five," which transformed the unfamiliar 5/4 time signature into a loping romp, the jazz ...

Recorded by the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Take Five" remains the biggest-selling jazz single of all time, and its familiar melody has... The Story Of Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' In 1961 ...