Dave Brubeck, “Take Five,” and his longtime collaborator credited with the jazz legend’s biggest hit

Two of the most original and compelling jazz artists in history were born in the same year. Charlie Parker, the co-inventor of bebop in the 1940s, and Dave Brubeck — who made one of the coolest and best-selling jazz albums of all time — were both born in 1920. By the time Parker died at 34 in 1955, Brubeck was just starting to come into his own. He wouldn’t record his best-known album, “Time Out,” until 1959, and it took another year or two for it to become a cer...