With less than a month of summer to go (in the northern hemisphere), this is timely.
If it has been a while since you have heard “Summer 
Sequence,†the brilliant suite composed by Ralph Burns for Woody Herman—or if you have never heard it—this is your lucky day. Rifftides reader Roger Hunter’s comment on our recent Hi-Los post triggered a search for a recording of that timeless piece by Herman’s First Herd. To read Mr. Hunter’s comment and hear the music, go here and scroll down to the end of the comment section.