By Natalie Weiner The crowd roars as a pianist starts playing a loping swing groove. Then, a trumpet player begins a solo, his impressive wails echoing around a cavernous venue — the 82,300-person-capacity Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
When he begins singing the 1944 standard “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You,” spectators cheer again, this time in recognition.
Those details, that enthusiasm, would suggest a bootleg from one of the many massive jazz concerts and festivals of the 1940s or ‘50s — but there’s a crispness to the sound that makes that impossible.
In fact, it was recorded in 2018. “For me, it’s always a weird situation when people say, ‘Oh, nobody likes jazz; Nobody shows up to jazz concerts,’” says that
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