--- product_id: 71118196 title: "Take Ten Original Columbia Jass Cla Ssics" brand: "jim hallpaul desmond" price: "S$30" currency: SGD in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.sg/products/71118196-take-ten-original-columbia-jass-cla-ssics store_origin: SG region: Singapore --- # Take Ten Original Columbia Jass Cla Ssics **Brand:** jim hallpaul desmond **Price:** S$30 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Take Ten Original Columbia Jass Cla Ssics by jim hallpaul desmond - **How much does it cost?** S$30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sg](https://www.desertcart.sg/products/71118196-take-ten-original-columbia-jass-cla-ssics) ## Best For - jim hallpaul desmond enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jim hallpaul desmond brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description null ## Images ![Take Ten Original Columbia Jass Cla Ssics - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71szznEodIL.jpg) ![Take Ten Original Columbia Jass Cla Ssics - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7102pAnhNAL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Smooooooooooth jazz that everybody can really enjoy *by S***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 8, 2021* We had ragtime, the first historically recorded music that was technically jazz. Then Dixieland with all the New Orleans greats, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, etc. "Hot jazz" that started featuring improvisations and jams from the best musicians of the late 1920's. (Sad I have to put the "19" on first. Time is just going so fast). Big band, bebop, hard bop, and cool jazz pioneered by Miles Davis. But Dave Brubeck had his own distinct style, and it was "cool", too, but a bit more rhythmically adventurous. One thing that Brubeck was famous for was "Take Five", one of jazz' greatest songs and most identifiable. Part of that sound also belonged to saxophonist Paul Desmond. I must confess that while I certainly appreciate good horn playing, I have typically been more interested in cleaner sounds. The blaring, the noisy and outright noise of some players just doesn't do it. I can listen to tons of weird guitar sounds, or keyboards. But horns? Uh uh. But my personal physician friend who also plays guitar and is a more avid jazz fan than I am and I are always recommending discoveries to each other during my usual three month appointments (we diabetics have to have lab work and regular monitoring) played a bit of Paul Desmond's "Take Ten" for me, and already liking Desmond, finding the great Jim Hall as his guitar player on this album meant it was an instant buy. It means a wonderful album of Desmond's ultra smooth sax, and Jim Hall's equally beautiful accompanying guitar, with no piano. It gets down to business on the title track, sort of taking the mega hit "Take Five" and attaching trigonometry rhythms to create a very demanding but cool tune that might even suggest some of the more challenging rock and jazz to follow. But the album overall is so soothing it just seems to float. Desmond shares that tone with Stan Getz, and Jim Hall is as mellow but still incredibly brilliant as any jazz player there ever was. "Take Ten" is timeless, and for non-jazz fans, easily digested. And cool enough to make you look like a real jazz cat when your friends are around when you play it. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Quiet, concentrated heat; dispersive engineering. *by S***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2012* Paul Desmond, i'm finally convinced, was as gifted an alto master as Bird, though he possessed a "story-telling" ability perhaps exceeding that of any other alto player. Certainly, the noticable lack of Desmond imitators is testimony to his singular brilliance. What Paul does on the horn is simply something that can't be taught: he listens to himself with an attentiveness unmatched by few other players on any instrument. Listen to his continually setting up "call-response" patterns with himself. He'll introduce a musical question, then answer it with a response to his own query--but that answer is also a new question demanding its own response. And so goes a Paul Desmond solo, always open to new ideas, new inventions and motifs, inexhaustible little forays into the myriad of possibilities thrown off at any moment by the melodic-chordal-rhythmic nature of the form or song chosen as the vehicle for improvisation. Those moments during which the dialogue is not limited to Paul himself but to Paul and Jim Hall help the listener to gain an even sharper sense of the call-response form that motivates, then sustains, every Desmond narrative.My only reservation about this disc concerns the stereo mixing. Jim Hall's guitar is so distant in the mix--not to mention, "separated" from the central focus--that it sounds as if it could be an after-dub, if the listener didn't know better. I decided to compare this recording with a couple of others featuring Jim Hall with another musician--with Bill Evans ("Undercurrent") and Sonny Rollins ("The Bridge"). Both are recordings that provide the listener with the sonic image of two players who are, at the least, in the same room with each other. On my copy of "Take Ten" Hall's guitar is so exclusively prominent in the left channel and Paul's in the right that the effect is unsettling (try moving your balance control all the way to the left--normally, the level of Paul's alto would be diminished: on this remaster, it's practically eliminated!). If you have the abiliity to play "Take Ten" in monaural, the album should easily rate the extra star. ### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars Unusual defect *by S***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 27, 2021* Item arrived appearing as though it had been re-packaged. Plain clear plastic wrap. Usually authentic record company name appears on the plastic wrap covering, hinge side. Also, case had a small crack in it. Well it cost only $5. Sometimes ya get what ya pay for right? The manner of recording makes Paul's sax and the percussionist heard only from the right side speaker. The left channel plays the guitar. My system functions fine as this does not occur on any other cd I own. I have never heard this before from either a vinyl record or cd. I give three stars as the sound is otherwise just fine.I previously purchased this same cd many years ago. It did not have this problem. I ditched it because it had an anomaly known to cd's but perhaps not often experienced: disappearing music. 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