Paul Desmond was an American jazz musician and composer who achieved lasting
fame playing the alto saxophone with the Dave Brubeck Quartet for whom he wrote
the classic single 'Take Five' which became a worldwide hit in 1961. It featured
on the 1959 album 'Time Out' featuring Brubeck, Desmond, bass player Eugene
Wright and drummer Joe Morello and was nominated as Record of the Year at the
1961 Grammy Awards and was admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996. Desmond
had a prominent solo career and led a quartet and a quintet under his own name
but he continued to record and perf...