Paul Desmond - Take Ten

Title: Take Ten Artist: Paul Desmond Release Date: 1963 Re-Released On: 7/31/2006 Label: Bluebird RCA, RCA Records, BMG, Sony BMG Music (Canada), RCA Victor Duration: 37:25 Album Type(s): Instrumental UPCs: 4988017603222, 4988017632673, 4988017634905, 4988017664124, 766487251228, 886974861225, 0078636614625, 078636614625, 078636614649, 743212576023, 766486504721, 498801763490, 007863661462 Genre: Jazz Styles: Cool, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz Moods: Calm/Peaceful, Elegant, Gentle, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Melancholy, Poignant, Reflective, Romantic, Soothing, Sophisticated, Amiable/Good-Natured, Austere, Delicate, Earnest, Light, Literate, Passionate, Plaintive, Refined/Mannered, Relaxed, Reserved, Sensual, Sentimental, Stately, Stylish, Warm, Wistful, Witty Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Take Ten
2. El Prince
3. Alone Together
4. Embarcadero
5. Theme from "Black Orpheus"
6. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
7. Samba de Orfeu
8. The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD BMG 38074 2005 CD BMG 37449 2001 CD BMG BVCJ37216 2001 CD RCA Victor 07863661462 2000 CD RCA Records 74321796212 1993 CD RCA Records 66146 1963 CD Sony BMG Music (Canada) 748612 ------ CD Bluebird RCA 66146

Take Ten [France Bonus Tracks] Take Ten [US Bonus Tracks]

Now listeners enter the heart of the Paul Desmond/Jim Hall sessions, a great quartet date with Gene Cherico manning the bass (Gene Wright deputizes on the title track) and MJQ drummer Connie Kay displaying other sides of his personality. Everyone wanted Desmond to come up with a sequel to the monster hit "Take Five"; and so he did, reworking the tune and playfully designating the meter as 10/8. Hence "Take Ten," a worthy sequel with a solo that has a Middle-Eastern feeling akin to Desmond's famous extemporaneous excursion with Brubeck in "Le Souk" back in 1954. It was here that Desmond also unveiled a spin-off of the then-red-hot bossa nova groove that he called "bossa antigua" (a sardonic play-on-words meaning "old thing"), which laid the ground for Desmond's next album and a few more later in the decade. Two of the best examples are his own tunes, the samba-like "El Prince" (named after arranger Bob Prince), an infectious number with on-the-wing solo flights that you can't get out of your head, and the haunting "Embarcadero." Hall now gets plenty of room to stretch out, supported by Kay's gently dropped bombs, and he is the perfect understated swinging foil for the wistful altoist. There is not a single track here that isn't loaded with ingeniously worked out, always melodic ideas. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

Name Credits Andre Michel Salvet Composer Antônio Maria Composer Arthur Schwartz Composer Connie Kay Drums Gene Cherico Bass Gene Kalbacher Liner Notes Gene Wright Bass George Avakian Producer Gus Kahn Lyricist Howard Dietz Lyricist Hugh Peretti Composer Isham Jones Composer Jacqueline Murphy Art Direction James Van Heusen Lyricist Jay Newland Mastering, Engineer Jim Hall Performer, Guitar John Snyder Producer, Reissue Producer Liz Fierro Research, Art Research Luigi Creatore Composer Luiz Bonfá Composer Paul Desmond Sax (Alto), Composer Phil Silvers Composer Ray Avery Photography Ray Hall Engineer Steve Backer Producer, Executive Producer