One of the biggest jazz singles of all time, "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, was recorded 65 years ago today. Brubeck's son is sharing his father's archive online. And I'm Michel Martin.

His father's band, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, went into the studio 65 years ago today and came out with one of the biggest jazz hits of all time, "Take Five." (SOUNDBITE OF THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET ...

(SOUNDBITE OF THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET'S "TAKE FIVE") MARTIN: This is "Take Five." Clearly, they made it swing, but it wasn't easy. Brubeck was trying to work in an unusual time signature. Most ...

Back in the late 1940s, Dave Brubeck used a matured $1,000 ... panel that served as the actual desk where Brubeck worked on songs like Take Five and Blue Rondo à la Turk. An adjacent living ...

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When Dave Brubeck was discharged from the army ... primarily level set atop a pinnacle,” Morris said. It would take Brubeck about five years to save up enough money for construction, which ...

Shortly after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, Dave and Iola ... of fraying. Brubeck, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer known for his hits “Take Five” and “Blue Rondo ...

Just two days short of his 79th birthday, pianist Dave Brubeck performs Saturday at 8 ... Peggy Cone and The Central Park Stompers, a five-piece swing band, perform Sunday at the annual holiday ...

Dave Brubeck being honored at the 32nd Kennedy Center Honors. In honor of the late great Dave Brubeck, who was born a century ago on this day December 6, 1920, here’s “Take Five.” Although ...

Pianist envy: Late ivory tickler Dave Brubeck's (left) whimsical former Connecticut home (right) sold for $2.5 million. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn; Douglas Elliman The late great jazz pianist Dave ...