Paul Desmond - Take Ten
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Artist: Paul DesmondBrand: RCA
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Take Ten
- El Prince
- Alone Together
- Embarcadero
- Theme from "Black Orpheus"
- Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
- Samba de Orfeu
- One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
- Out of Nowhere
- Embarcedero (Alternate Take)
- El Prince (Alternate Take)
Music reviews of Take Ten
Music Review: Why on Earth is this Out of Print?
Rating: 4 Stars
If you like the Dave Brubeck Quartet, there's no reason why you shouldn't like this. Recorded in 1963, a few years after Brubeck's seminal Time Out, Take Ten features Desmond's trademark melodic alto sax playing. There's no piano, but Demond plays along nicely with guitarist Jim Hall. The title track "Take Ten" is similar rhythmically to the classic "Take Five," but doesn't offer merely slight variations on a theme--it takes its own direction. The song titles--"El Prince," "Embarcadero," and "Samba de Orfeu"--should give you an indication of the Latin influence on this CD. Indeed, Take Five is more bossa nova than Time Out was. I have no idea why on earth this album is out of print. But if jazz fans can get a hold on a copy, they will be pleased.
Description of Take Ten
Despite the times in which he lived, Paul Desmond was never one to succumb to either exoticism or the purely funky, so rarefied was his butterfly tone and his delicate phrasing. Still, here, with Connie Kay's drums prodding him, and a recent trip to Brazil heightening his bossa nova senses, Desmond goes as musically far afield as he would ever travel with "Take Ten," "El Prince," "Embarcadero," and bossas such as "Samba de Orpheu" and "The Theme from Black Orpheus." He negotiates the Brazilian material as gracefully as a Stan Getz, but as always with Desmond it's the ballads that stay in the memory, and here "Nancy," "Out of Nowhere," and "Alone Together" are as sweetly played as is imaginable within the jazz tradition. Jim Hall's guitar is as fine as it has ever been, his chorded melody lines always surprising, his single-string work pure Charlie Christian revisionism, all of it in service of creating a swing setting for Desmond. The occasional fade and the unreleased longer takes of "El Prince" and "Embarcadero" suggest that RCA was thinking of Desmond in pop terms, and probably correctly so, for his solos--gemlike miniatures as they are--do not need development to make their point. --John F. SzwedGeneral CDs
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