50 great moments in jazz: Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, 1938 原文網址 譯者: erebus7 Last month, this series highlighted the meteoric rise of Benny Goodman , the classically trained Jewish clarinet prodigy from Chicago. The young Goodman had been so turned on by the dynamism and swing of 1920s African-American jazz in his home town that his own commercial rebranding of it was to make him a global pop star in the next decade - despite, or maybe because of, the catastrophic downturn of the Great Depression. - 在之前的文章中( 50 great moments in jazz: Benny Goodman and the swing craze ) 介紹了Benny Goodman,這位來自芝加哥,如彗星般快速崛起的猶太豎笛天才