TAKE FIVE ★ Dave Brubeck ★ TABs & Chords

🎼 TAB, scores, backing tracks available at: or SUBSCRIBE 🔔 turn on notifications to stay updated with new uploads! Take Five is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond and originally recorded by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for their 1959 album Time Out. Made at Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio in New York City on July 1, 1959, fully two years later it became an unlikely hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever. Revived since in numerous movie and television soundtracks, the piece still receives significant radio airplay. Written in the key of E♭ minor, Take Five is known for its distinctive two-chord piano vamp; catchy blues-scale saxophone melody; inventive, jolting drum solo; and unusual quintuple 5/4 time, from which it derives its name. Brubeck drew inspiration for this style of music in the sp