playing his favorite track “Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)” from the 1938 live recording at Carnegie Hall. He’d play it over and over again, and every time he heard it, he’d start to cry, and I could never understand why, so he’d try to explain. It’s live, Benny! Listen! That’s Babe Russin on tenor sax. And Harry James on trumpet. And Gene Krupa on drums—oh, man listen to those tom-toms, he’s killing it!
