"Flying Home" by the Benny Goodman Sextet
In 1939, the Benny Goodman sextet went into the studio to record a track which would have a staggering impact on the future of music. If rock and roll began anywhere, we can say it began here, with a jazz band that had become integrated on the advice of a Communist millionaire, with a young guitarist on his first session who would die two years later, having made the electric guitar the instrument of the future.