Jimmy Rushing sings “Goin’ to Chicago Blues” on a 1958 episode of The Subject Is Jazz, accompanied by an all-star band led by Buck Clayton:
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“Indeed, I simply can’t imagine competence as anything save admirable, for it is very rare in this world, and especially in this great Republic, and those who have it in some measure, in any art or craft from adultery to zoology, are the only human beings I can think of who will be worth the oil it will take to fry them in Hell.”
H. L. Mencken, Heathen Days (courtesy of Margaret Hivnor)