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    Take Five

    We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
    It won't be visible through the air
    And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973

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    "Time Out" is a Desert Island disc for me.
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    Time Out is a wonderful album.
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    Nice tune, but I don't care if I never hear it again. I prefer the early stuff, e.g. the octet and "college"/concert LPs.
    Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes

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    Come on Mo, it's a timeless melody.

    You know you need it daily.

    Love the drum sound/solo!
    no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone

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    Great composition, great album. Paul Desmond floats on air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nosebone View Post
    Come on Mo, it's a timeless melody.
    Timeless? I thought it was in 5. Ba-da-BING!
    Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes

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    Quote Originally Posted by mogrooves View Post
    Timeless? I thought it was in 5. Ba-da-BING!
    Oooooh!
    no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone

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    The Secret Life of Machines used a Punk /Ska version of this for it's theme...any idea who did this version?

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    cute tune... always liked it even though it does not Rock

    I mean... a Jazz Drummer must be able to do 1,000s of gigs and his Kick Drum will still look like new!
    Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Time Out is a wonderful album.
    Yes, part of that magic '59 year.

    But not a desert island album.


    Take 5 is the piece I've used to show my GF (she loves it too) how pieces can go farther than in 4 to explain that it was perfectly allright to go in 7, 11 and 15, for ex.
    I tried to show her 13 with Turn It Out again, but she dislikes the tune (o do I, FTM) so she wouldn't be attention
    my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.

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    One thing I didn't realise until fairly recently is that the version that became a hit single is a totally different performance to what is on the album. It's a notably different take and about half the length. I'm surprised Columbia's CD didn't feature this version as an extra track.

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    Take Five is probably the first piece of music I heard that wasn't in standard 4/4 or 3/4 or 6/8 time - certainly the first I heard on the radio. An uncle of mine, who was a bit of a musical snob and mostly only listened to Classical with a capital 'C', loved Dave Brubeck.

    If you want to show someone how weird time signatures can get, have them listen to Remainder the Black Dog, by Steven Wilson.
    Last edited by bob_32_116; 09-02-2014 at 11:25 AM.

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    In my late teens ( latter 1970's ) I was all prog/rock all the time. New stuff, none of that 60's and earlier material.
    My folks used to take us to Big Band jazz shows and crooners. Cue the major eye rolls.
    One day I was coming out of my basement of solitude, home of MY stereo and music.
    My dad was playing music on his stereo, stopped me in my tracks. "What is that", I asked. "Take 5" he says. I was hooked.
    Thing is I had probably heard it before.
    I think it was my exposure to the time signatures experiments of prog that opened my mind to it. Right place at the right time, it just clicked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kayfabe58 View Post
    The Secret Life of Machines used a Punk /Ska version of this for it's theme...any idea who did this version?
    Not sure if its that version, but the Specials did it on one of their reunion albums.

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    Nice cover by Davy Graham:


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    And another one by Anthony Braxton Quartet:


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    Quote Originally Posted by mogrooves View Post
    Timeless? I thought it was in 5. Ba-da-BING!
    That should be Ba-da Ba-da Bing Bing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bob_32_116 View Post
    Take Five is probably the first piece of music I heard that wasn't in standard 4/4 or 3/4 or 6/8 time - certainly the first I heard on the radio.
    Mine was Mission: Impossible.

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    Tito Puente covers "Take Five".

    "please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide

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    Best jazz record ever (IMO)! Paul Desmond is da shit! Dave Brubeck is my fave jazz artist!

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    Quote Originally Posted by A. Scherze View Post
    That should be Ba-da Ba-da Bing Bing.
    You mean, of course, "Ba-da Ba-da Bing bing ba-ding!"

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    good cover by George Benson

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    Quote Originally Posted by wideopenears View Post
    You mean, of course, "Ba-da Ba-da Bing bing ba-ding!"
    No. It's six hits.


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