Lucius--interesting point you make about Take Five. The way you put it, it works out to being a compound meter in 10/8.

The melody is based on five eight notes to the measure, and you can play it "square" (like a classical musician would read it) and have it really come out to five, but when it is played with a Jazz feel, often it slides into what amounts to 3/8. The popular Brubeck recording, if memory serves, has a very straight forward 1-2-3-4-5 in the rhythm, and the swing feel comes from the soloist--incidentally, the song was written by Paul Desmond--