[譯] 50 great moments in jazz: Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, 1938

50 great moments in jazz: Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, 1938

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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