Tagged: Take Five

5:01am

Tue March 19, 2013
Take 5

Take 5 goes meta: A list of 5 songs about lists

Credit Verve Records

Over the past few years, Take 5’s theme-based music lists have covered a wide variety of subjects. We’ve covered all the seasons of the year, all the holidays, different types of weather, the careers of jazz legends, the cutting-edge work of up-and-coming jazz artists and have gotten into the musical minutiae of things like flowers, birds, baseball, prohibition and civil rights.  And now it’s time for Take 5 to go meta and present a five-song list of songs about….LISTS.  It had to happen sooner or later.

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6:00am

Mon January 28, 2013
Blues

Cold Weather Blues: 5 songs that feel your mid-winter pain

  • Kirsten Kendrick and Nick Morrison discuss the songs

In the Western Hemisphere, January is typically the coldest month of the year.  Most of us feel that if we can somehow drag ourselves through January, things will begin to turn around and we’ll be on the road to springtime. 

But January is also typically the month that feels as if it will never end.  So as we slog through the cold rain and snow, awaiting January’s demise, here are five winter blues songs to help get us through:

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12:20pm

Thu September 20, 2012
Take Five

Cannonball Adderley: 5 Songs From A Joyous Soul

Originally published on Sun September 16, 2012 5:56 pm