Regarding my rave review of the Marine Corps Band the other night, if you haven’t heard Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” for a while and don’t have it in your collection, here is a free refresher course. It’s a Real Player download of the entire three-and-a-half minute piece by an unidentified band. They take it a trifle fast, but it has a great piccolo solo and an exhuberant out-chorus…if that’s the term.
What does this have to do with jazz? Nothing. Please see the About Rifftides explanation at the top of the right-hand column.