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{{Infobox album
| name       = Take Ten
| type       = Album
| artist     = [[Paul Desmond]]
| cover      = Take_Ten.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1963
| recorded   = June 5, 10, 12, 14 & 25, 1963
| venue      = [[Webster Hall]], New York City
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     = 37:25
| label      = [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]] LPM 2569
| producer   = [[George Avakian]]
| chronology = [[Paul Desmond]]
| prev_title = [[Two of a Mind]]
| prev_year  = 1962
| next_title = [[Bossa Antigua]]
| next_year  = 1964
}}
'''''Take Ten''''' is an album recorded by American jazz saxophonist [[Paul Desmond]] featuring performances recorded in 1963 which were released on the [[RCA Records|RCA Victor]] label with cover art by [[Andy Warhol]]. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://warholcoverart.com/2019/10/13/the-bossa-nova-cover-no-one-knew-was-a-warhol-paul-desmonds-take-ten/|title = The bossa nova cover no one knew was a Warhol: Paul Desmond's Take Ten|date = October 13, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Desmond discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/paul-desmond/catalog/#rca-victor-lpm-2569 Paul Desmond Catalog] accessed February 29, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.puredesmond.ca/des60.htm Paul Desmond Discography Part Three: 1960-1969] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324213129/http://www.puredesmond.ca/des60.htm |date=2016-03-24 }} accessed February 29, 2016</ref><ref>Berry, S. [http://www.stevencberry.net/jimhall.html Jim Hall discography] accessed February 29, 2016</ref>
==Background==
''Take Ten'' was the first small-group jazz album Desmond released as a solo artist under a contract with RCA records. His initial RCA releases were an album featuring him alongside a string orchestra (1961's [[Desmond Blue]]), and a small-group session co-lead with Gerry Mulligan (1962's [[Two of a Mind]]). With ''Take Ten'', Desmond continued a partnership with guitarist [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] that had begun with the 1959 quartet album [[First Place Again]] for Warner Bros. records. In the time between the earlier quartet record with Hall and ''Take Ten'', Desmond (as part of [[Dave Brubeck|The Dave Brubeck Quartet]]) had a huge popular hit in 1961 with his composition "[[Take Five]]". "Take Five" was recorded in 1959 for the Brubeck Quartet's [[Time Out (album)|Time Out]] album, but only became a hit after the 1961 [[Single (music)|single]] release. ''Take Ten's'' title track was a 5/4 jazz composition similar to "Take Five" in terms of rhythm, chord structure, and melody. The ''Take Ten'' album also reflected the popularity of another early-1960s [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] U.S. jazz hit, 1962's "[[Desafinado]]" recording by jazz saxophonist [[Stan Getz]]. "Desafinado" marked the beginning of the [[bossa nova|bossa nova craze]] in North America. The Dave Brubeck Quartet (featuring Desmond) recorded ''[[Bossa Nova U.S.A.]]'' in the fall of 1962, following the popularity of "Desafinado". ''Take Ten'' was Desmond's first solo album to incorporate bossa nova. Desmond continued to explore bossa nova in his next album, 1964's ''[[Bossa Antigua]]''.
==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]''
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
|rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev2score  = {{Rating|3|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=369}}</ref>
}}
[[Allmusic]] awarded the album 4½ stars stating "There is not a single track here that isn't loaded with ingeniously worked out, always melodic ideas".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Richard S. |last=Ginell |class=album |id=mw0000201677 |title=''Take Ten'' – Review |accessdate=February 29, 2016}}</ref>
==Track listing==
All compositions by Paul Desmond except where noted.
# "Take Ten" – 3:11
# "El Prince" – 3:38
# "[[Alone Together (1932 song)|Alone Together]]"  ([[Arthur Schwartz]], [[Howard Dietz]]) – 6:52
# "Embarcadero" – 4:07
# "[[Manhã de Carnaval|Theme from "Black Orpheus"]]" ([[Luiz Bonfá]], [[Antônio Maria]]) – 4:14
# "[[Nancy (with the Laughing Face)]]" ([[Jimmy Van Heusen]], [[Phil Silvers]]) – 6:05
# "Samba de Orfeu" (Bonfá, Maria) – 4:29
# "[[The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)]]" ([[Isham Jones]], [[Gus Kahn]]) – 5:37
:''CD 2000 reissue only'':
#<li value=9> "Out of Nowhere" – 6:54
# "Embarcadero" (Alternate Take) – 4:53
# "El Prince" (Alternate Take) - 5:35
'''Note'''
*Recorded at Webster Hall in New York City on June 5, 1963 (track 8), June 10, 1963 (tracks 5 & 7). June 12, 1963 (tracks 2 & 3), June 14, 1963 (tracks 4 & 6) and June 25, 1963 (track 1).
==Personnel==
*[[Paul Desmond]] – [[alto saxophone]]
*[[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]] – [[guitar]]
*[[Gene Cherico]] (tracks 2-8, 10, 11), [[Eugene Wright]] (track 1), [[George Duvivier]] (track 9) – [[double bass|bass]]
*[[Connie Kay]] – [[drum kit|drums]]
==References==
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