stressed that it is the Dutchman's choice.

"His future depends on him," Ter Stegen said.

"I think it's a personal thing.

"I understand that he wants to play more, but I also want to be the No.1 here and to play everything.

"Everyone knows that, he knows that and the club knows that."

The World Cup was another talking point, with the player admitting he was disappointed not to have started for Germany.

"If you have a season like I had then you go to the World Cup with excitement and ambition to play," he said.

"However, there's a need to respect the coach's criteria.

"It was tough, that's true.

"But I was there to support the team and I did it 100 percent.

"It was a shame that we couldn't get to the last 16 and we'llsession: Goodman handing a solo to Basie's guitarist Freddie Green, who was never a featured soloist but earned his reputation as the best rhythm guitarist in the genre—he responded with a striking round of chord improvisations.) As the concert went on, things livened up. The Goodman band and quartet took over the stage and performed the numbers that had made them famous. Some later trio and quartet numbers were well received, and the vocal by Martha Tilton on "Loch Lomond" provoked five curtain calls and cries for an encore. The encore forced Goodman to make his only audience announcement for the night, stating that they had no encore prepared but that Martha would return shortly with another number.

By the time the band reached the climactic piece "Sing, Sing,