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 ...

It contained his signature work, "Take Five." Here is that theme performed in three different eras. Brubeck would have turned 92 tomorrow. For more on his legacy, we turn again to Jeff.

Dave Brubeck, the legendary jazz pianist and composer, has died at the age of 91. He will probably be best remembered for Take Five, the jazz instrumental ... You may like Pere Ubu founder David ...

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." ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...