Paul Desmond

Genres:	Easy Listening, Jazz, World Music
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
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Biography

Paul Emil Breitenfeld, 25 November 1924, San Francisco, California, USA, d. 30 May 1977, New York City, New York, USA. Alto saxophonist Desmond is best known as a member of the Dave Brubeck quartet, in which he played from 1951-67 and to whose popular success he greatly contributed by writing the hit "Take Five". However, aficionados and critics alike agree that much of his best work was done away from Brubeck's often stiff improvisations and tricky time signatures, in particular on two albums with Gerry Mulligan (Blues In Time, Two Of A Mind) and five with Jim Hall (East Of The Sun, Bossa Antigua, Glad To Be Unhappy, Take Ten, Easy Living), which Mosaic Records later reissued in one of their splendidly packaged box sets.

Influenced by Lee Konitz, but very much his own man, Desmond's pure tone and fluid, inventive solos - into which he often wove witty quotes from other songs - marked him out as one of modern jazz's most original and...

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