Take Five - The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The song is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. Released as a promotional single in September 1959, the track would not achieve commercial success until it became a sleeper hit in 1961. | 1960s Music Originals