Doug Ramsey's award-winning, critically acclaimed biography Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond revealed a lot about the late alto saxophonist, a quiet man who was a brilliant ...

An alto saxophone tone as dry and bright as a martini with the sun shining through it. I have been listening to this disc over and over and over. My knowledge of Desmond is admitted limited. Sure he ...

Even today, 45 years after it first became famous, Paul Desmond's best-known composition, "Take Five," remains fresh and alive. It began as a rehearsal riff over an unusual 5/4 rhythm and quickly ...

They called the sensuous tenor saxophonist Stan Getz "the Sound." But the name could have been applied just as aptly to Paul Desmond, the lyrical alto saxophonist whose pure, singing tone and ...

Paul Desmond, an alto saxophonist, once said he tried to sound like a dry martini. He succeeded in that. Many people know jazz pianist Dave Brubeck‘s work, especially the famous 1959 Columbia session, ...

The late Paul Desmond’s cool alto sax and timeless lyricism were a defining element of the classic Dave Brubeck quartet – Desmond’s composition “Take Five” was their biggest hit. This four-CD set, ...

For jazz listeners of a certain age, one of the pleasures of the compact disc era is that it has given rise to the reissue, in cleaned-up and digitized form, of something very much like youth. The ...

SMITH: There's something about you and Paul Desmond that drew you to each other, wasn't there? What's the chemistry between you and Paul? DAVE: Yeah in spite of uh, us being very different uh, ...