Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Desmond was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz. He was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet and composed that group's biggest hit, "Take Five".
After years of chain smoking and poor health, Desmond succumbed to lung cancer in 1977 after a tour with Brubeck.