Here's Dave Brubeck's Take Five with an Pakistani orchestra.
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I enjoyed that El Loro - thanks for posting it...I'd never have gone looking for it
Very good. 
Thanks for that El Loro.
Blimmin' brilliant! I will no doubt return to listen to that a few more times, thanks El Loro
As soon as I can I'm going to hop to safari to tune in, I love jazz!
Jazz fm's dinner jazz with Helen mayhew is my favourite radio show <3
I'm not very keen on jazz but I loved that. Thanks, El.
Not a bad spin El Loro
But the original's freezin'.
Originally Posted by El Loro:
It was mentioned on the radio this morning and Dave Brubeck reckons it's the best version of Take Five he's heard.
That doesn't surprise me. From all I've read and heard about his experiments with time signiatures, I'd imagine he'd be thrilled by this. The whole "Time Out album was heavily influenced by the group travelling to India and the Middle East. It's probably most notable on "Blue Rondo A La Turk" (which became the B-side to "Take Five"), which was influenced by music that Brubeck heard on the streets of Istambul.
The other thing I noticed about this version was that they've really "got" the importance of the drums on this piece. We're so used to hearing the sax melody as background music and TV themes that a lot of people get a shock when they hear it as a full recording: it was in fact originally written to give Joe Morello a drum solo!