I just heard a local high school jazz band close their performance at the Festival of Lights in Ave Maria with their rendition of Sing Sing Sing. They did a good job, but I had to come home and find the great Benny Goodman version, from the extraordinary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. Truly one of the greatest jazz performances ever. If I were doing a time capsule about American culture of the past 100 years, I would have to include this as one of its great moments.
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