“Take Five” by The Dave Brubeck Quartet

This is how you get introduced to jazz music. That is, if you didn’t grow up with Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Dave Brubeck captured the delightfulness of jazz with this track, while simultaneously raising the ambient cool in the room to a level most of us aren’t accustomed to but are so very glad we have the pleasure of easing into.

If the drums aren’t enough to hook you (before you can imagine the finger dance necessary for the playful piano rhythm), give it a few more seconds. If you’re somehow still not there, let the saxophone flow through you like cream poured into coffee.