Paul Desmond - Take Ten
Used (Contains Scratches on Vinyl, Contains Seam Splits) (Not Play Tested) Vinyl 180g LP Limited, Numbered Edition Of 1,500 Copies

Mastered From Original Analog Tapes By Bernie Grundman

Track Listing 1. Take Ten
2. El Prince
3. Alone Together
4. Embarcadero
5. Theme From "Black Orpheus"
6. Nancy
7. Samba De Orpheu
8. The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)
Everyone wanted Desmond to come up with a sequel to the monster hit “Take Five”; and so he did, reworking the tune and playfully designating the meter as 10/8. Hence “Take Ten,” a worthy sequel with a solo that has a Middle-Eastern feeling akin to Desmond’s famous extemporaneous excursion with Brubeck in “Le Souk” back in 1954. It was here that Desmond also unveiled a spin-off of the then-red-hot bossa nova groove that he called “bossa antigua” (a sardonic play-on-words meaning “old thing”), which laid the ground for Desmond’s next album and a few more later in the decade. Jim Hall now gets plenty of room to stretch out, supported by Connie Kay’s gently dropped bombs, and he is the perfect understated swinging foil for the wistful altoist. There is not a single track here that isn’t loaded with ingeniously worked out, always melodic ideas. Now Take Ten finally gets the audiophile treatment it deserves, with this 180gram reissue, mastered from original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman. Each copy of this limited edition release is numbered with a gold foil stamp.