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Paul Desmond, Take Ten
Audio CD
Disk ID: 288045
Disk length: 37m 56s (8 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1993
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Take Ten | 3:12 |
| 2. El Prince | 3:25 |
| 3. Alone Together | 6:53 |
| 4. Embarcadero | 4:02 |
| 5. The Theme From Black Orpheus | 4:13 |
| 6. Nancy | 6:06 |
| 7. Samba De Orpheu | 4:24 |
| 8. The One I Love | 5:35 |
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Review
Despite the times in which he lived, Paul Desmond was never one to succumb to either exoticism or the purely funky, so rarefied was his butterfly tone and his delicate phrasing. Still, here, with Connie Kay's drums prodding him, and a recent trip to Brazil heightening his bossa nova senses, Desmond goes as musically far afield as he would ever travel with "Take Ten," "El Prince," "Embarcadero," and bossas such as "Samba de Orpheu" and "The Theme from Black Orpheus." He negotiates the Brazilian material as gracefully as a Stan Getz, but as always with Desmond it's the ballads that stay in the memory, and here "Nancy," "Out of Nowhere," and "Alone Together" are as sweetly played as is imaginable within the jazz tradition. Jim Hall's guitar is as fine as it has ever been, his chorded melody lines always surprising, his single-string work pure Charlie Christian revisionism, all of it in service of creating a swing setting for Desmond. The occasional fade and the unreleased longer takes of "El Prince" and "Embarcadero" suggest that RCA was thinking of Desmond in pop terms, and probably correctly so, for his solos--gemlike miniatures as they are--do not need development to make their point. --John F. Szwed
Other Versions
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Tracks: 8, Disk length: 37m 57s (+0m 1s)
Tracks: 8, Disk length: 38m 18s (+0m 22s)
Tracks: 11 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 55m 32s (+17m 36s)
Tracks: 11 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 55m 56s (+18m)
Tracks: 11 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 55m 56s (+18m)
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