'Take Five'
was written by saxophonist Paul Desmond, not Dave Brubeck. And in his estate planning, Desmond specified that his entire share of royalties from “Take Five” would go to one organisation: the American Red Cross.
That gesture has been estimated to generate more than $6 million for the Red Cross.
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...Blue Rondo A La Turk, but he told Paul (they were so sympatico I think they shared one musical mind), that he wanted the record to experiment with unusual time signatures and feels.
Paul took that plan forward & came up with Take 5.
Paul was my dad's second favorite sax player. (He was a cool jazz lover.)
Only Stan Getz took a higher spot than Paul for my dad.
It's why I heard so much of the West Coast jazz sound when I was a kid learning jazz piano.
Oddly, despite that exposure, I gravitated to more bop & post-bop. Unfortunately, my dad didn't like that kind of jazz! 
