Not long ago, I posted about jazz's dalliances with Shakespeare. Recently, I wrote about Maxine Sullivan's twirl with the Bard here. Over the weekend, Michel Weber in Switzerland hipped me to Bob Crosby's own Elizabethan foray. Back in April 1939, Crosby and his Bob Cats recorded four songs that were issued as Shakespeare in Swing, a Decca album featuri…
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