The best thing about old jazz is how just one good song will serve as a reminder of how brilliantly romantic that time period was. The soulful cry of artists like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong was just made to intertwine with the rat-tat-tat-tat of crisp drums and and the wail of blaring horns. The collaboration between the big band and those big voices was — and still is — absolute magic.
And because it was such a magical time, we feel that everyone should spend part of their day dancing around to old jazz songs. While we may not be able to transport you back to the time when Dizzy Gillespie reigned supreme (our flux capacitor has gone missing) we can throw this here list your way to help you out instead.
”So just throw on these old jazz standards and dance around like you're on some airy New Orleans veranda instead. We'll never tell.
“Sing, Sing, Sing,” Benny Goodman This song — widely believed to be completely instrumental — actually has lyrics that were written by another jazz great, Louis Prima, who composed the song back in 1936 as the B Side to “It’s Been So Long.” But it truly became a jazz staple once Goodman got his hands on it a year later, and he recorded an instrumental version with guys like Harry James and Ziggy Elman.
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