Born and bred in San Francisco, where his father was a silent-movie organist and a noted arranger of vaudeville and theater music, Desmond famously remarked that he wanted to sound like a dry martini.

Doug Ramsey Take Five: The Public and Private Lives of Paul Desmond Parkside Publications ISBN: 0961726679 2005 . Paul Desmond was an integral part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet for seventeen years and ...