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Topic: Has Anybody Recorded a Version of "Take Five"? |
Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2008 1:26 pm |
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| "Take Five", the old Dave Brubeck classic, sax by Paul Desmond. I haven't heard of anybody doing a PSG version but would like to know. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 11 Jul 2008 2:35 pm
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Yes, John Heinrich has. Go to www.SteelGuitarJazz.com and click on the Video Screening Room, then scroll down to John's video playing Take 5. Enjoy!
Jimbeaux |
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Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 11 Jul 2008 6:37 pm
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| Thank you Jim. Are there other renditions? |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 11 Jul 2008 7:20 pm
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| It'd make a GREAT shuffle! Jim Hartley was playing in 4 one day, and I asked him how to count 11. And he DID it! Pretty cool! |
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Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 5:36 am
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A shuffle, hmm, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Jim, it strikes me as something you might have toyed with. Have you ever tackled it?
It pops up here and there every now and then; it was the opening and closing theme in the recent movie Flawless.
I'm just speculating but it seems like something Jernigan, Chalker, Anderson or Emmons might have flirted with. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 5:46 am
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| I would speculate that they have all fooled around with the tune at one time or another, but as far as I know, never recorded it. Me neither, sorry. |
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Darvin Willhoite
From:
Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 7:18 am
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There's your challenge Jim, you probably have just enough time to work it up for the Jazz room at ISGC. 
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 7:19 am
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| Thanks, Darvin. First I have to learn to count to five. (Last time I tried, it didn't go so well...) |
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 8:15 am
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Kagy,
That would be a good project for Smiley!
If i'm not mistaken, Paul Desmond did that on clarinet.
Nice job by Desmond in the late sixties on Beatles tune OoblahDee, Ooblahda also.
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John Drury
NTSGA #3
"Practice cures most tone issues" ~ John Suhr |
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Pete Burak
From:
Portland, OR USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 9:45 am
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You could always do a Country version of it...
"Take Five and Shove It"!
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Steve Alcott
From:
New York, New York, USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 9:59 am
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| I had a bandmaster in the Army who counted 7/8 time signature thusly: one, two, three, four, five, six, sev, en. |
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Pete Finney
From:
Nashville Tn.
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 10:18 am
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Paul Desmond played "Take Five" on alto sax, his usual instrument; he also wrote it (and did pretty well financially!).
I'm not a huge Brubeck fan personally but Desmond is one of my all time favorite musicians; his RCA albums from the 60's with Jim Hall on guitar are fantastic. He was also an incredibly funny guy... |
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Gabriel Stutz
From:
Chicago, USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 11:32 am
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Jim,
Steel Guitar Jazz is a great site. I really like your version of Lush Life. I'm really glad there's a site like this.
Thanks,
Gabriel |
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 11:46 am
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| I must echo Pete Finney's reply. I really dig the stuff Desmond and Jim Hall did on RCA also. In particular the record which Desmond and Hall did titled "Glad To Be Unhappy" which has an exquisite version of Cole Porter's "All Through The Night", and yes, Desmond was a very funny guy. He actually wrote a book called "How many of you are there in the quartet?". |
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Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 12:59 pm
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| Paul Desmond set the bar very high, especially with his playing on Take Five imho. Cool, earthy, casual, confident, swinging. It'd be hard to put out a recording on any instrument, pedal steel included, that would equal or top it. Still it's fun to fool around with. One of those songs that often turns into an earworm, looping over and over in your head. |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 12 Jul 2008 1:18 pm
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| Every time I listen to Paul Desmond (which was yesterday: "Jazz Goes To College") I think how cool his lines could fall on C-6th and especially his blues playing. Desmond was quoted as saying he wanted his horn to sound like a dry martini. |
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Charlie McDonald
From:
out of the blue
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 4:25 am
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No, but we played it in junior hi.
We had the only drummer in town who could play 5/4.
I heard Desmond called 'the slowest saxaphonist in the West.' He did embrace each note to the fullest. |
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Roger Crawford
From:
Griffin, GA USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:24 am
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| Hey Jimbeau, do what drummers do...1-2-3-1-2,1-2-3-1-2. It doesn't get over their head that way! (No flames please, I'm a drummer, too!) |
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J D Sauser
From:
Wellington, Florida
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:10 pm
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Steve and Bob, please explain how to play Take 5 as Take 4...  |
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Joe Goldmark
From:
San Francisco, CA 94131
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Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:22 pm
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Gentlemen...you too Barry . It so happens that I recorded a version of Take Five in 4/4 time (Take Four) on my "Strong Like Bull" album. If I knew how to get it onto the Forum I would do it (maybe someone can?). I actually copped an arrangement by Willie Mitchell that's very cool.
Joe |
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2008 5:12 am
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You say seven dollars for this shirt,
how 'bout five... will you take five... won't ya take five...
Couple dollar discount wouldn't hurt,
give you five... how about five... will you take five...
All over town, I've seen many of these around
yes I think that you should come down, 'cause I really
only have a fin. Where's the sin in
Dropping your price? Yes I know it fits very nice.
You say it's been worn onlt twice. think that's a lie....
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Jim Hoke
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2008 5:15 am
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(Ran outta space for the last verse)
So why don't we cut thru all the crap,
If I met your price I'd be a sap
give you five.... how about five... will you take five......
(Joe Morello solo) |
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Abel Khineche
From:
Santa Clarita California, USA
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Posted 17 Jul 2008 11:11 am
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Hi All,
This will make you smile:
My version of "TAKE FIVE" on a strat fitted with a Roland Synth pup, using the Alto Sax patch:
TAKE FIVE with Sax patch
This is my (normal)guitar version:
TAKE FIVE "normal" guitar
The backing track is an excellent midi file I found on the web. If someone wants it, please let me know.
Regards,
Abel |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 17 Jul 2008 1:26 pm
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Very cool, Abel. As a sax player I must say the sax sounds were pretty good. But I can see how on guitar it is hard to avoid occasionally hitting two notes at once, although they did seem to be in harmony. It sounded a little like Rahsaan Roland Kirk got in there in places playing two horns at once.  |
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