1959...

I was 8 years old. This is the song that opened my eyes to the fact that there was more out there in the musical world than the classics I was listening to.
 
Check out the drummer...tell me he was not a pot smoker in 1959.
 

Wow!  I had no idea that you're that ANCIENT 

Joe ... one of the greatest drummers of the 20th century and probably the most musical soloist ... had vision problems from childhood and always wore glasses or dark glasses.
 
Here are a couple of minutes of Joe soloing (there is a little glitch in the audio at one point):

 
This is 1961 ... 8 years before LZII's Moby Dick.

Just bumped an old thread of mine ... I studied with Joe for many years.

I actually saw the Brubeck quartet around that time (I was 12 in 1959).  It was a concert venue in an amusement park near Salt Lake City (my family, from central Illinois, were visiting my father's siblings who lived in Utah).  This was the biggest thrill of my life until that point - I was totally hooked on Brubeck - not any other jazz, but exclusively Brubeck.
 
Joe Morello at one point slightly misaimed a snare hit in the middle of a frenetic solo and the drumstick when flying up and across the stage.  He literally did not miss a beat but had another in hand so quickly you'd never know it happened without the visual experience.

i don't know about that, but check out around 2.12, tell me if you don't think the piano player farted?

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Joe ... one of the greatest drummers of the 20th century and probably the most musical soloist ... had vision problems from childhood and always wore glasses or dark glasses.
 
Here are a couple of minutes of Joe soloing (there is a little glitch in the audio at one point):

 
This is 1961 ... 8 years before LZII's Moby Dick.

Rowdy crowd.

Great tune, great playing got my furry ears twitching back in my youth to Dave.  IIRC it was used by the BBC for a program called Take Five on the then new BBC 2 625 Jazz music program.

There's also the Mission Impossible theme, although I guess it'd be a stretch to call it a "hit".

That's a hit! 3 then. Wonder if there's any more.

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Just bumped an old thread of mine ... I studied with Joe for many years.

Then maybe you can tell me what in the world he is doing with his hi-hat footing?  I'm watching and that leg is not going up and down with the hi hat like a "normal" drum technique, ha ha...I can't tell from the video what he's doing with his footing.  Very curious...

One of the best versions of Take 5 is on the first track of the Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits album. It is slower and way more relaxed. And the sax and drum solos solos are also marvellous on this one too. 
 
Paul Desmond also recorded a track called Take 10 on the Skylark album much later with Jack De Johnette on drums and that is also pretty cool.

Voda La Void

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Voda La Void

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Just bumped an old thread of mine ... I studied with Joe for many years.

Then maybe you can tell me what in the world he is doing with his hi-hat footing?  I'm watching and that leg is not going up and down with the hi hat like a "normal" drum technique, ha ha...I can't tell from the video what he's doing with his footing.  Very curious...

The soloing with his hands is over an ostinato where the bass drum lands on one and the hi hat plays 2 & 4.
 
So when counting in 5/4 you can establish beat 1 by listening to the bass drum.  Once you get the feel for that you can hear the hats landing on 2 & 4 with a rest on beat 5.

No, no, I meant specifically how he was opening and closing the hi-hat out of sync with his leg going up and down. I actually watched it again here at home on my bigger monitor and I can see it's when he's playing heel down, the rest of his leg is rhythmically bouncing up and down seemingly independent of his hi-hat action.  Pretty cool.  I've just never seen anyone do that.   

Nice demo on the beat breakdown, too.  Thank you.  I've actually been working on 5/4 stuff in my practice rotation lately, so I will give this one a go.  

Sorry ... I misunderstood what you were asking.  I didn't set the camera up to really show my leg but it is essentially doing the same thing, just not so exaggerated, and it's really just a slight variation on the old school rocking technique.  That is the technique I learned as a child so I really don't think about it very much. 
 
If you were rocking your foot back and forth in 4/4 using a heel-toe-heel-toe pattern with your heel tapping on 1 and 3 and your toes on 2 and 4 your leg will look like a piston going up and down between the beats.  Joe adds an extra heel tap on beat 5 in 5/4.  So, the result is the knee coming up on the "& of 2", the "& of 4" and the "& of 5" ... so if you listen for the bass drum to establish 1 you will see the knee come up once ("& of 2") and then twice in rapid succession ("& of 4", "& of 5").  Joe is really bouncing his heel so the knee comes up high.