Big Band is still alive

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Tonight my wife and I went to a big band concert. The Richmond (VA) Parks and Recreation Dept. foots the bill twice a year to bring in a big professional band, The Continentals. Seven hundred people came out. It was almost standing room only in that high school auditorium. It was a free event. It was replete with wonderfully talented (and famous) jazz musicians of saxes, clarinets, trombones, trumpets, piano, drums, bass, and four solo singers. All around me 80-year-olds were jiving and rocking. The woman to our right was 87. She laughed and swayed and applauded with enjoyment. Many songs were for the Christmas season. The place rocked. I was thrilled watching them and listening to quality big band swing music. Isn't it great for that kind of music to be still alive and kicking?