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Lawndale - Take Five (Alternative Rock/Surf, The Dave Brubeck Quartet Cover)

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From '' Sasquatch Rock ''
Label: SST Records ‎– SST 125
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1987

Tracklist
A1 Sasquatch Rock
Written-By – Jack Skelley
A2 Alabama Stammer
Written-By – Jack Skelley
A3 March Of The Melted Army Men
Written-By – Jack Skelley
A4 Next To The Last Frontier
Written-By – Rick Lawndale
A5 Last Train To Nowhere
Written-By – Jack Skelley
A6 Tomfoolery
Written-By – Rick Lawndale
B1 Take Five
Written-By – Paul Desmond
B2 Instrumental
Written-By – Rick Lawndale
B3 Ambush
Written-By – Rick Lawndale
B4 Hot Pink Bongos

© 1987 SST Records
℗ 1987 SST Records


🎵 [SONG INFO]

"Take Five" is a jazz piece composed by Paul Desmond and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet on their 1959 album Time Out.
Recorded at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio in New York City on July 1, 1959, fully two years later it became an unlikely one-hit wonder and the best-selling jazz single of all time.
Written in the key of E-flat minor, it is famous for its distinctive two-chord piano vamp; catchy blues-scale saxophone melody; imaginative, jolting drum solo; and use of the unusual quintuple (5/4) time, from which its name is derived.
It was first played by the Quartet to a live audience at the Village Gate nightclub in New York City in 1959.

Brubeck drew inspiration for this style of music during a U.S. State Department-sponsored tour of Eurasia, where he observed a group of Turkish street musicians performing a traditional folk song with supposedly Bulgarian influence that was played in 9/8 time, a rare meter for Western music (traditionally called "Bulgarian meter").

While "Take Five" was not the first jazz composition to use the quintuple meter, it was one of the first that did and achieved mainstream significance in the United States.

Released as a single initially on September 21, 1959, its chart potential was fulfilled only after its re-release in May 1961, reaching No.25 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 9 that year and No.5 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart three weeks later.
The single is a different recording than the LP version, and does not include most of the album performance's drum solo.

Some versions also feature lyrics, including a 1961 recording with lyrics written by Dave Brubeck and his wife Iola, sung by Carmen McRae. Al Jarreau performed an unusual scat version of the song in Germany in 1976.

Desmond, upon his death in 1977, left the rights to royalties for performances and compositions, including "Take Five", to the American Red Cross, which has since received combined royalties of approximately $100,000 per year.

Cover versions

1962
Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund
French singer Richard Anthony ("Ne boude pas")
1963
Antonio Diaz "Chocolate" Mena (Eso Es Latin Jazz ... Man!)
Davy Graham
Bill Justis
1965
Marilyn Maye
1967
Trudy Pitts
1968
Val Bennett (The Russians Are Coming)
sometime before 1969 – Romanian singer Gigi Marga (retitled "Ritmuri noi" – "New rhythms", accompaniment by Cornel Popescu band)
1973
Chet Atkins
1974
Augustus Pablo ("Ital Dub")
1977
Al Jarreau
1979
George Benson
1983
Quincy Jones
1985
Tito Puente & George Shearing LP Mambo Diablo (Take Five) Grammy Winner
1986
George Benson
1987
Lawndale ("Take Five" – medley with Whole Lotta Love). (Sasquatch Rock, SST Records)
1991
Acoustic Alchemy (Reference Point)
1992
Grover Washington, Jr. (Take Five (Take Another Five))
1996
The Specials ("Take Five")
Moe Koffman ("Take Five") (Devil's Brew album)
1997
Aziza Mustafazadeh ("Take Five") (Jazziza album)
Antonio Forcione & Sabina Sciubba ("Take Five") (Meet Me in London album)
1998
Eric Singleton/'XL'
1999
The String Cheese Incident (Carnival '99)
Electronica/New Age music group Dancing Fantasy (Dancing Fantasy)
2002
Rodrigo y Gabriela ("Take 5 (Foc-ing version 9)")
King Tubby ("Book of Numbers Dub"), a dub version released posthumously
Plankton, Swedish Instrumental Rock band (Plankton album)
2004
Tahir Aydoğdu, Turkish Kanun Player (Hasret album)
2006
Dancing Mood (Groovin High)
2008
New York Ska Jazz Ensemble (Step Forward)
Roger Kellaway (Live At The Jazz Standard)
2009
Bugge Wesseltoft (Playing)
2010
Indigo (Stay Together)
The Portland Cello Project (Take 5)
Stevie Wonder (at the North Sea Jazz Festival)
2011
Paradox (MiX-5: Premiere Recordings for Bassoon and Cello)
Eliane Elias, on the "Light My Fire" album
Sachal Studios Orchestra
2012
Panzerballett (Tank Goodness)
2013
Terry Disley "Brubeck vs. Guaraldi"
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog (Your Turn)
Mark Winkler & Cheryl Bentyne ("Take Five"/"Drinks on the Patio")
Michel Camilo ("What's Up?")


🔗 [LINKS]

https://www.lawndalemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lawndale/
@lawndaletheband9665 
https://www.instagram.com/lawndalesst/

Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2pBEDt0SOKUBdpkvkyKOtZ
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/take-five/1694802351?i=1694803256
and Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/458802275

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