WOW!!!! I can't tell you how HAPPY it made me - to find this music TOTALLY ALIVE and thriving - in Japan!! I'm afraid US bands have forgotten the HEART _ but YOU HAVEN'T!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what a big band is meant to be. One of the best performance by Nobuo HARA with #&♭. Having seen this video, you may want to hear them live. Unfortunately, however, Hara, the leader of the band and sax player passed away on June 21, 2021. He was 82 when this video was recorded. In fact, the band was on their final tour and this was the last tune he played.
As a long time swing fan, I have to say this is a really good version of Prima's/Goodman's/Krupa's Sing, Sing,Sing. Perhaps the closest to the 1938 Benny Goodman version. Well done!
Best recording of any music ever - including all the best of opera, rock, pop, gospel, country, Broadway, orchestra, world music, country, jazz, blues ... you name it.
The original is an electrical recording of the Benny Goodman Orchestra at the New York Studios in 1955. The original sound source is being discovered. shii yamah🗻⛰️🌋jp 20200209
May the Japanese people never lose their discipline and ability to perfect everything they set their mind to perfecting. This is the best recording I have yet to come across of this song. 日本人を祝福する