That's Paul Desmond's alto sax, playing with the Dave Brubeck Quartet on "Take Five," a Paul Desmond composition. It appears on what album, A.B. Spellman? A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the ...

No jazz musician was more urbane than saxophonist Paul Desmond ... the Brubeck quartet crisscrossed the American continent, as the toast of the college circuit. Dave Brubeck wrote "Plain Song ...

Paul Desmond was revered for the pure, gentle tone of his alto saxophone, and the elegant lyricism of his improvisations. For seventeen years he was the lead soloist in the most commercially ...

The music that Dave Brubeck created during his years with the 'classic quartet' - featuring Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Joe Morello on drums and Eugene Wright on bass - became his most ...

On Dec. 26, 1967, at the Hilton in Pittsburgh, the great Dave Brubeck Quartet - with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright, and drummer Joe Morello - played its final gig before the ...

Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie had gone before him as Eisenhower's jazz ambassadors for America, when pianist Dave Brubeck--along with his sizzling quartet comprising alto ...

While Davis’ Blue would eventually become the best-selling jazz album of all time, the bigger seller circa 1959 was Time Out from the Dave ... prior Brubeck, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond ...

By The Associated Press, THR Staff Legendary jazz drummer Joe Morello, who played with the Dave Brubeck Quartet on ... a concert with alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. The pianist asked Desmond ...

The album also featured "Take Five," the cool and catchy odd-metered tune that became the Brubeck quartet's theme ... Brubeck asked Desmond to write a two-part melody over the rhythm, and Brubeck ...

He was best known for his work with his classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, which included longtime musical partner Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums.

Dave Brubeck ... Five” was the alto player Paul Desmond. Desmond’s unmistakable tone — dry, floating, incisive — was central to the sound of Mr. Brubeck’s quartet, which from its ...

It is difficult to recall a more active, continuously creative jazz musician at 83 than Dave Brubeck ... the intimate counterpoint of the Brubeck/Paul Desmond quartets of a half-century ago.