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Shortly after Dave Brubeck died in 2012 a tape of an impromptu concert he gave with Tony Bennett in 1962 for the Kennedy administration was discovered in the vaults at Sony. "That Old Black Magic" was the only song from the sessions that had been previously released but the whole concert became available the following year. Whoever found the mislabeled show should be given a medal. Bennett and Brubeck were asked to perform at the "White House Seminar American Jazz Concert" for college students who'd been serving as interns in Washington. The concert was held on August 28, 1962 and was scheduled for the Rose Garden but later moved to a theater near the Washington Monument because the large crowd could not be accommodated on the grounds of the President's residence. Both men were at the height of their popularity. Brubeck's fame was mostly due to Paul Desmond's "Take Five," a smash hit for the band several years earlier, and Bennett...