Epic

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i would have given this a 10 but -8 for racism

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I'm in the jazz band at my school, and we're playing Take Five this year :D

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everyone below this line is racist ____________________________

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lol

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everyone above this line is racist ____________________________

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everyone below this line has cooties ____________________________________ and c*ck

or, you know, not.

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everyone below this line listens to the rap, which gives them the brain damage __________________________________________________________________

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Everyone to the right or left of this line likes ear rape music. ________________________________________________

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I used this piece in one of my first sites — http://take5.ytmnd.com/ — but I was still making pretty crappy loops.

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you should have added IN YOUR FACE N*GG*RS at the end then it would be kind of funny

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I don't care who does it. Take Five is just an epic case of elevator win!

Shoulders of giants....

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Cosby knows what the jazz is all about.

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N*gg*rs didn't invent jazz. A n*gg*r has never invented ANYTHING

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Just peanuts...the poor man's nut.

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You're wrong kooter, n*gg*rs invented aids

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There are like 10 other Dave Brubeck songs that would have also worked, its somewhat overused to use Take Five. But I love the site in general, 5'd

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i think dave brubeck was pissed that white people weren't the best atheletes anymore so he made it his personal mission to invade jazz

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where's the funny? ALL YTMND'S MUST BE FUNNY

j/k

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LOL

Dave Brubeck was an excellent player with some good ideas but he was far from the creative genius of someone like Miles Davis or Gil Evans. His popularity was more the result of people responding to spectacle, i.e. "Oh wow this guy plays a song in 5/4! Isn't that cool?" What do you mean by Brubeck "blew them out of the water"? Do you mean with the number of records he sold? "Kind of Blue" sold quite a few.

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5/4...wow...that's impressive... Give me Don Ellis any day... Someone once said the only tune he played in 4/4 was Take 5

I look at it like this. There have been so many influential songs done by black jazz artists in the last century. Yet, it seems to be the ones that people remember the most (especially from the swing era) are done by white people. Whites did the same thing with Rock and Roll. Its kind of like how in college basketball, Tyler Hansborough and Kevin Love, two whites guys were two of the top three players this year. IN BASKETBALL! Sometimes the world just confuses me.

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if HANSBROGH did jazz he would dominate that too... except in the final four where it matters most :(

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I know. I go to UNC. That was the most painful 40 minutes I've ever had since I was shot five times with a nail gun.

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hahaha brandon rush would destroy him in a sax-off

I think white people like to listen to black music in the closet, until some select white person comes along that makes it "ok" for whites to be open about it. Examples from history: The Original Dixieland Jass Band, Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley, the disco movement, Eminem, etc. There are others, and plenty of counterexamples as well. But there is a definite trend present, and it's unfortunate. Creative music suffers when spectacle commands the money.

The reverse could be said about Tiger Woods and golf

hes asian

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he has something in his nose

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just because he made a popular song does not mean that he blew anyone out of the water. and to you racists, EVOLVE ALREADY WE ARE ALL EARTHLINGS /end rant

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Earthlings with vastly different phenotypes

I think you're a good man for using this forum to tribute an amazing genre and it's artists. I don't look at Brubeck as a white guy who will be remembered over other black artists, I look at him as one of the white guys who got it right. Like Chet Baker. It's popular, and excellent, but I'm more of a fan of the slutty, 60s/70's era Jazz. I can listed to Byrd, Mingus, and Parker and it will never get old.

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Thank you. I myself am a fan of the Bop, Cool, Post Bop Modal, and Fusion eras. Early jazz doesn't really appeal to me.But if you put in some Weather Report or MJQ, I could chill to that all day.

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man either you're a closeted bigot or you're socially retarded i cant tell

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You, and pretty much everyone, will miss the point of what he means. You're also missing the point of someone paying tribute to a mostly black art form and it's mostly black artists not being a bigot. I mean, really kids, thinking isn't that hard. Give it a try.

1 word elvis

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The supremacist comment was unnecessary.

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I really don't understand how people can see that as a racist/supremacist comment. I was saying how sad it was that white people take a form of music that black people really created and popularized, yet the most popular tune of all time was done by a group of white guys (really white, I mean this guy grew up on a farm in California). Maybe you should actually read sh*t and think about it for a second before you make a comment. Otherwise, you're only proving my point that people really don't know about jazz

I think the second paragraph can be misconstrued - as if it only took an "old white guy" one recording to equal or surpass the achievements that black jazz artists made over decades of invention and refinement. I know you didn't mean it, but there is a certain ironic tone to the writing that can be misinterpreted. (And do you really think it's a "sad" commentary on jazz that "Take Five" is the number-one selling jazz song just because it was made by a white guy? It ain't Brubeck's fault that he's white.)

WSMJ? Whitey Stole My Jazz?

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Welcome to 7th grade music class. it has so much to do with YTMND and humor

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Seriously, dude. I would have expected better out of you.

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If I put up 10 sites glorifying Skinny Puppy, I would be downvoted out of existence

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I don't understand why I can't post some sites about jazz without 1) being accused of racism and 2) being automatically downvoted because I'm trying to educate people. Maybe I overestimated the intelligence of some people.

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YTMND IS NOT ABOUT EDUCATION. IT'S ABOUT LAUGHING AT BLACK PEOPLE, STARSHIP CAPTAINS, AND BLUE BALL CONTRAPTIONS

one of the very few pentameter songs ever written

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You know, Blue Rondo A La Turk was one of the only songs written in 9/4 time.

... in western music this is true. Such metric cycles are nearly ubiquitous in some Eastern European folk music -- check out music from Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, etc. if you're interested. Indian music is pretty well-known for this as well, although (in my experience) their rhythmic cycles tend to be more drawn out so they are divisible by 2, for example 14 beats, rather than 7.

Ok you're right, Blacks suck at music because they came form tree's so they should just sample the master white race's music when rapping. Next time can you take out the guys head and most of the text? Just make it "N*GG*RS ARE MONKEYS" . Add some system of a down... damn thats a fine *ss site.

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????

But really? If you want some music listen to Fela Kuti.

WRONG this is funny

Nice.

Ok... so first of all the most famous Jazz recording is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Second of all: Dave Brubeck is really a minor jazz figure compared to Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Bird, Coltrane, Miles, Mingus, Rollins, etc. The reason he is known is because he brought jazz to mainly white college audience in the 50's and 60's. He wasn't particularly innovative, and hasn't done anything since.

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Kind of Blue is the highest selling album. Take Five is the highest selling single. Brubeck did a lot of experimentation with different sounds and implemented a lot of world cultures (beyond that of the Afro-Cuban) influences of Gillespie and Parker. Look, I'm gonna do like 30 of these so he'd get included eventually. And as far as white jazz musicians go, he's right up there with Goodman, Corea, and Whiteman. I'll get around to those guys you mentioned eventually.

Here, you probably already know about this but just in case: http://www.paleycenter.org/insidemedia/video/webcast-brubeck.htm

Thank you for letting the audio run up to Morello's magnificent drum solo. I wish there was enough room for the whole thing.

that song sounds like a jazz remix of the underwater level from the ninja turtles NES game

If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis

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5 for Racism

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The entire second paragraph does not qualify as "educational."

it's an educated commentary.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't.

is

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Classy and Beautiful

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I knew this guy sounded familiar! He worked on The Real Ambassadors with my former professor Jon Hendricks!

AND this is also your most popular site. The irony is beautiful

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That is also kind of sad, really. I got a lot of votes from the racist crowd because they completely missed my point.

Brubeck FTW

<--- here, you take five

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I see what you did there.