After You've Gone - Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grapelli, 1949 (m.youtube.com)
A late version, in postwar Rome. Earlier versions with Quintette du Hot Club here (includes vocal) and here....
Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue - Duke Ellington Orchestra with Paul Gonsalves solo, Newport Festival, 1956. (Assembled footage) (m.youtube.com)
I love swing... but for me it is always eternally leading up to that midsummer midnight moment in 1956 when Paul Gonsalves' tenor sax takes flight....
Caravan Palace - Lone Digger - 2015 (www.youtube.com)
Hey, brother, what you thinking?...
Benny Goodman Orchestra "Sing, Sing, Sing" Gene Krupa Drums, from "Hollywood Hotel" film 1937 (www.youtube.com)
So you've probably heard the Swing Kids version of this, which is great, but the combo of Goodman and Krupa doing the original is something incredible, and you realize why it was such an enormous hit in 1937. Krupa's speed on the drums and Goodman's command of the clarinet and orchestra is flat out genius. You'll note Goodman...
