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Title: They Chopped Gene Krupa's drum solo in Sing, Sing, Sing!
Review: I agree that this was one of the greatest musical events of the big band era. Its highlight was Sing, Sing, Sing, specifically the various solos at its end. Well, guess what? The most famous solo of them all, Gene Krupa's drum solo, isn't there. Presumably someone edited it out so the concert would fit on two CDs. It is like selecting the Hallelujah Chorus as the thing to edit from Handel's Messiah! If I had known they had mutilated the concert, I wouldn't have bought the set. Unlike the professional reviewer, I found the second CD staticy, something that could have been easily fixed with today's technology. You'd think Columbia could be trusted to reproduce properly one of their most famous recordings. No such luck! Buyer beware!
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