New York Jazz — September 1959 — Piano Classicism Jazz at Basin Street East

New York Jazz — September 1959 — Piano Classicism Jazz at Basin Street East    • New York Jazz — September 1959 — Piano Cla...   Saturday, September 12th, 1959. East 48th Street. At Basin Street East, the Dave Brubeck Quartet carries the torch for what the era calls "hard classicism" — piano jazz built like architecture, precise, unusual, rhythmically inventive. The room is upscale and unhurried, an East Side supper club warm with conversation and clinking glasses before the lights settle and the quartet takes over, each phrase landing somewhere you don't quite expect. Part of the New York Jazz and Ink series, recreating real weeks of mid-century Manhattan nightlife through hand-illustrated watercolor scenes and original instrumental jazz. #NewYorkJazz #BasinStreetEast1959 #DaveBrubeck