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The incredibly talented Pakistani musicians of Sachal Studios performed an absolutely brilliant cover of the iconic Dave Brubeck piece “Take Five”. This incredible version featured such uniquely Indo-Pakistani sounds as the tabla (twin drums) played by Ustad Ijaz Hussain Ballu Khan, Ustad Tanveer Hussain on sarod, and Nafees Ahmed on…

The prodigious Hong Kong harmonica quartet Perfect Fourth, performed an absolutely incredible cover of the iconic instrumental classic “Take Five” by jazz great Dave Brubeck (previously). The group covers a number of classical, jazz and popular tunes from a great many different eras. The Perfect Fourth Harmonica Quartet aims at…

Music essayist Noah LeFevre of Polyphonic (previously) takes a deep dive into the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out. LeFevre specifically notes Brubeck’s groundbreaking use of complex time signatures within each song on the album. Brubeck had learned several of these unfamiliar signatures while he was off in Eastern…

Musician BearKeys performed a really great cover of the Dave Brubeck jazz classic “Take Five“, simultaneously playing the background rhythm on keyboard and the lead melody on his melodica. This was his first time playing the song, but it seems like he got it right on the first try. Just…

A pair of lounging huskies decided to sing along as their human’s son played a respectable cover of the classic Dave Brubeck jazz song “Take Five” on saxophone. The dogs seemed to howl very much in the same key as the song. This was then demonstrated by the young man,…

“Unsquare Dance” by Los Angeles commercial director Stewart Maclennan is a modern day update to the 7/4 time Dave Brubeck classic of the same name. The re-imagined song by Brian Carmody features dancers grooving along to the unorthodox time signature. via Vimeo Staff Picks

Dave Brubeck talks about performing in communist nations during the Cold War in this animation by Patrick Smith. Brubeck’s words are from an unreleased 2008 interview by John Dankosky of WNPR. The animation is the first in a new series of unreleased interviews with famous people by media nonprofit Blank…

image via Dave Brubeck site Legendary jazz pianist Dave Brubeck has died at the age of 91. According to his biography, his career spanned “over six decades” and “his experiments in odd time signatures, improvised counterpoint, polyrhythm and polytonality remain hallmarks of innovation.” In 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded…