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.

Great tune and band!
 
Triplets and quintets in 5/8. Did a time portal open up somewhere as well?

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

If he did, it was probably on beat! 

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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.

I looked up Joe Morello on Wikipedia, and sure enough, he did have vision problems his whole life. Do you suppose his dark glasses started that whole trend among jazz musicians in the 50's and 60's?
 
Remember that early Kia commercial from years back that featured a hamster band? Joe had to have been the prototype for the hamster drummer. I couldn't find it on YouTube, maybe someone with more finely-honed search skills can locate it...

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.

I suspect it's one of only two tunes in 5/4 time to become a 'hit', the other being Tull's Living in The Past.

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

It peaked at 41 in the Billboard Top 100 in 1968. Not as high as some TV themes, but still pretty high.