And at last, we get to the reason why I chose to do this blog in the first place. Not to awkwardly fade in and out of character like I was written by Seth Macfarlene, not to write entries weeks or months in advance (this one was written February 15th, to give you an idea), and not even to pretentiously harken back to the awful audio quality of 1903.

I started this blog because this is the kind of music that I love. The kind of music that I listen to in my spare time, when I don't have to worry about the rest of my generation calling me a grandpa and blasting the latest David Guetta/Chris Brown remix. This is the kind of music that I grew up listening to. Big Band and jazz standards surrounded me every day whether I was listening to my mother's Dean Martin CDs, watching old Looney Tunes shorts, or doing almost anything else. Granted, I was always an Elvis kid growing up, but the way I lived in my own little jazz age, it was impossible not to grow up with at least some understanding of the classics.

Enjoy a sampling dish of all that is good and wonderful about music. This is Benny Goodman with his most well-known record: Sing, Sing, Sing.