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Take Five

instrumental composed by Paul Desmond; first recorded by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Take Five

Summary

Take Five is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.95% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,553 views/month, #184 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Take Five's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Take Five's composer is recorded as Paul Desmond[4].
  • Take Five's genre is jazz[5].
  • Among the performers on Take Five was The Dave Brubeck Quartet[6].
  • Take Five's language of work or name is recorded as no linguistic content[7].
  • Take Five was published on January 1, 1959[8].
  • Take Five's tonality is recorded as E-flat minor[9].
  • Take Five's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Take Five'}[10].
  • Take Five's has characteristic is recorded as jazz standard[11].
  • Take Five's time signature is recorded as 5/4[12].
  • Take Five's form of creative work is recorded as instrumental composition[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Genre(s): instrumental, jazz[14]

  • Community tags: instrumental, jazz[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: df0b884d-84f5-45f0-9083-3fb539fa4700[16]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Take Five was performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet[6].

Publication

Take Five was released on January 1, 1959[8]. Its language of work or name is recorded as no linguistic content[7]. Its genre is jazz[5].

Why It Matters

Take Five ranks in the top 0.95% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,553 views/month, #184 of 19,375).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Paul Desmond

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Take Five. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/take-five
MLA “Take Five.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/take-five.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_take-five_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Take Five}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/take-five}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 4w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → no linguistic content
    Performer → The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Form of creative work → instrumental composition
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0709404692, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
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