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Take Five is een jazznummer van het Dave Brubeck Quartet. Het nummer is vrijwel de grootste hit van het kwartet en is te vinden op het album "Time Out" uit 1959. Memorabele uitvoeringen zijn ook te vinden op de albums "Live at Carnegie Hall", "The last set at Newport" en "We're all together again for the first time".

"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond and originally recorded in 1959 by the Dave Brubeck Quartet for their album Time Out. Written in quintuple time (54), the composition is built around a distinctive blues-scale melody in E♭ minor and a recurring two-chord vamp. It became the third track on Time Out, which was released by Columbia Records later that year.

The track emerged after Quartet drummer Joe Morello challenged Desmond to compose a piece in 54. Brubeck arranged Desmond’s melodies around Morello’s rhythmic ideas, creating a work in ABA ternary form. Its title refers both to the quintuple meter and the colloquial expression "take five," meaning to take a short break.

Released as a promotional single in September 1959, "Take Five" initially charted modestly but became a sleeper hit in 1961, eventually rising to international popularity. It went on to become the biggest-selling jazz single of all time and remains a staple of radio programming and live performance.

Frequently covered by artists across genres, "Take Five" has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz standards ever recorded.