jaelisten: the answer is always "Take Five"
like, can you imagine trying to write a song in 5/4 and knowing, absolutely knowing, you could never even get within a hectare of "Take Five"? It's a solved time signature: nothing will ever touch it.
seriously: look at these stone cold motherfuckers absolutely destroying the future of jazz for everyone else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Live in Belgium 1964Paul Desmond (alto sax), Joe Morello (drums), Eugene Wright (bass) and Dave Brubeck (piano)
these 50s-ass square fucking white men are like "Fuck it, we'll do 5/4" and they destroy everything you've ever known and hold dear
bitch names the song after the time signature as a HUGE fuck you to the normies
these nerdy white boys could Get It
Jason 🍩@jae at least that’s the album I have on vinyl