If only I could play my sax as well as Paul Desmond (who wrote the piece) did! Guess I can use the fact that he played alto and I play tenor as an excuse ... but that won't go very far.
I go to a camp every year and the sax specialist there is a very, very good player. But, not really into jazz. Anyway, he played it last year at show-and-tell night. He's the only other player I've ever heard who comes close to the beautiful tone that Desmond had. Quite wonderful to listen to. Esp. live.
Getting back to 5/4 ... I think that some middle-eastern music is written in this time as well. And, again from memory, I think that a few classical composers played with it as well.
I've avoided it since I'm afraid that whatever I come up with will sound like Take 5