Take Ten

by Paul Desmond

Overview

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

Product Details

Release Date:	08/04/2009
Label:	Sony Music Distribution / Sony Bmg / Sony Music
UPC:	0886974861225
Rank:	2220

Tracks

1. Take Ten
2. El Prince
3. Alone Together
4. Embarcadero
5. The Theme From Black Orpheus
6. Nancy
7. Samba De Orpheu
8. The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
9. Out of Nowhere

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Paul Desmond   Primary Artist,Sax (Alto)
Jackie DeShannon   Primary Artist
Jim Hall   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Guitar
Connie Kay   Guest Artist,Drums
Gene Cherico   Bass
Gene Wright   Bass

Technical Credits

George Avakian   Producer
Luiz Bonfa   Composer
Jay Newland   Engineer,Mastering
Hugo Peretti   Composer
Luciano Salvatore   Composer
Howard Dietz   Lyricist,Composer
Jim Hall   Performer
James Van Heusen   Composer,Lyricist
Luigi Creatore   Composer
Phil Silvers   Composer
Antonio Maria   Composer
Arthur Schwartz   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer,Lyricist
John Snyder   Producer,Reissue Producer
Antonio Carlos Jobim   Composer
Edward Heyman   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Ray Hall   Engineer
Hugh Peretti   Composer
Jacqueline Murphy   Art Direction
Liz Fierro   Research,Art Research
Andre Michel Salvet   Composer
Ray Avery   Photography
Gene Kalbacher   Liner Notes
Steve Backer   Producer,Executive Producer
Isham Jones   Composer
Paul Desmond   Composer