12/29/2023 0 Comments Jazz take 5It was the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies. Take Five was the centrepiece of Brubeck’s top-selling jazz recording, Time Out. Hours later, in my troubled mind, I still thought I could still be sentenced to jazz prison, charged with “botched time.” We had little understanding that most folks watching at home through those Admiral televisions were more focused on getting a receptive black-and-white picture, not “junior jazz” time. The episode is one Wayne and I talk about to this day. At song’s end, we are clapped off and praised as if we were child prodigies. He looked as if he’d been struck by an oncoming bus. What if viewers catch me fumble or falter? I’m too young to die on live TV. From the corner of an eye, I could see cameras glide about the room and one of them close in on my hands. I then try to cram Paul Desmond’s beautiful melody into four-bar sequences, to no avail. I glance over at the drummer and notice he’s swinging a metre of his choosing - one fit for a perky dance band. Suddenly, the brothers find themselves in the weirdest bandstand crossfire imaginable, trying to squeeze melody and rhythm into a squared beat. Beats one to four drop in sequence, but never beat five. Take it, boys.” I count the tempo in, and the quartet hits the downbeat spot on. “Ladies and gentlemen, all the way from across the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to perform for you the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s hit recording, Take Five… the King brothers. We shuffled our way through rehearsal and then moved on to the main event. The deadline for applications is 5pm, Thursday 7 December 2023.Wayne played alto sax, and I played the piano. If you have any enquiries about the scheme, please get in touch via our Contact Form.įind out about how you can support our talent development programmes here.Īpplications are now open for the 19th Edition of Take Five. This year we also partner with Black Lives in Music on a mentorship opportunity to an early career music production manager and/or sound engineer from a global majority background as part of the Take Five talent development programme. Previous artists could only apply upon being nominated by one of Serious’ trusted industry contact, but since 2019 we have also introduced an open “Expression of Interest” system, allowing any eligible artist to put themselves forward for the scheme. To be considered for the scheme, artists must be between the ages of 25-35 or have been working as a professional musician for at least five years, be primarily based in the United Kingdom (but do not need to a UK national), be leading their own band and/or composing their own music, and demonstrate exceptional talent and future potential. You can see every participant by clicking here. The programme’s alumni list reads as a who’s who of the British jazz scene ranging from Polar Bear’s Seb Rochford (who took part in the very first edition) to Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming’s Shabaka Hutchings, British/Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed to rising star Nubya Garcia, as well as musicians from outside the traditional jazz idiom but with a foot firmly in improvisation such as electronic musician Leafcutter John, conductor and arranger Jules Buckley, and Korean flautist Hyelim Kim. Serious also provides the artists with performance opportunities at the EFG London Jazz Festival and elsewhere – in particular as part of a “Take Five Showcase” which will be launched at the 2020 edition of the festival. They also get to collaborate on a series of pieces that each of them arranges for the entire group, directed by the esteemed composer and saxophonist Jason Yarde.įollowing the residency, the artists continue to receive tailored mentorship from members of Serious’ experienced staff as well as receiving funding towards further mentorship from other music industry professionals. The scheme centres around a week-long residency that brings the artists together with music industry experts, giving them a chance to learn about the complexities of the business in an intimate setting, and offering them the chance to take some time out from their usual busy touring/recording schedules and step back and think about how to advance their music and careers. Inaugurated in 2005, the programme welcomes eight of the finest young composers from across the United Kingdom’s jazz and improvised music worlds each year and offers them mentorship, collaborations, performance opportunities, and funding – serving as a pivotal moment in their careers and has frequently led to wider recognition, touring, record deals, and more. Take Five is an annual talent development programme for emerging jazz and improvising musicians/composers produced by Serious, and funded by the PRS Foundation, Help Musicians, Arts Council England, and Serious Trust.
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