![]() HORWITZ: Why is Joe Morello, the drummer who Dave Brubeck stole from Marian McPartland, the right drummer for this group? Bass playing for musicians like this is very difficult, because it's hard in a harmonically complex piece of music to choose the right note out of the chord to keep the thing going forward. SPELLMAN: Eugene Wright was a very solid bass player. HORWITZ: Eugene Wright was the bass player. I have always considered Paul Desmond to be one of the great musicians in jazz for improvising a beautiful melodic line-a long melodic line that is lyrical, and that holds together impeccably. But it's also music by some very accomplished musicians who are well set in their styles. There's jazz that proceeds from Miles Davis "The Birth of Cool" records, which we'll talk about on another day. HORWITZ: And it's still really the sound that for a lot of people who aren't really jazz listeners defines what jazz is. ![]() SPELLMAN: "Take Five" was on the top of the Pop charts, it was number one for awhile. HORWITZ: That's true, and a lot of these were hit tunes - "Take Five" was on the the Pop charts. SPELLMAN: Well, these are some of Brubeck's and Desmond's best compositions. ![]() HORWITZ: And why should this be part of our Basic Jazz Record Library? SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Time Out, on Columbia, by The Dave Brubeck Quartet. That's Paul Desmond's alto sax, playing with the Dave Brubeck Quartet on "Take Five," a Paul Desmond composition.
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