First some early swing by the Benny Goodman quartet - ridiculously fast! - but tremendous fun, four genuinely great musicians messing around:
A bit later in the era, a bit more serious - Jack Teagarden and the Bobcats (featuring Gomez from The Adams Family on drums) - you can see swing moving towards bebop, but (thank heavens) still retaining its rhythm and melodiousness at this point. This is just great playing - as soon as I finished I went back to listen again, and again:
And now something more modern (less genius); electro-swing from Caravan Palace - a clever and amusing video, and some very enjoyable sophistico-pastiche swing:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSx1iL-3Hg
According to YouTube commenters on the Jack Teagarden video, the drummer was Ray Bauduc, not John Astin of "The Addams Family".
Then again, maybe you were pulling a "Ha! made you look!" joke on those of us who would go to Wikipedia or imdb.com to see if John Astin is also a musician. }:-{D}
@ap English humour eschews emoticons.
Humour may eschew emoticons but humor doesn't-- I'm American. I added the parodic emoticon because of the brace key: Heavy brow, mustache, goatee-- it was a Bauduc-Astin-themed emoticon!
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