Benny Goodman Story at Elegance Cafè Jazz Club

Revisiting the repertoire of one of the Swing kings
BENNY GOODMAN STORY JAZZ QUARTET
"One might wonder what jazz would have been like if, at the right time, a guy like him did not appear on stage, Benny Goodman: an immaculate instrumentalist, a very talented conductor, perfectionist up to fanaticism and a remarkable business sense, sufficiently in love with jazz not to betray it, and aware of the tastes of the general public enough to obtain enthusiastic support. Perhaps, without him, nothing would happen; that chain reaction that was "swing madness" would not have been triggered and jazz would not have obtained the status that for a short season America and the world gave it....

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Revisiting the repertoire of one of the Swing kings
BENNY GOODMAN STORY JAZZ QUARTET
"One might wonder what jazz would have been like if, at the right time, a guy like him did not appear on stage, Benny Goodman: an immaculate instrumentalist, a very talented conductor, perfectionist up to fanaticism and a remarkable business sense, sufficiently in love with jazz not to betray it, and aware of the tastes of the general public enough to obtain enthusiastic support. Perhaps, without him, nothing would happen; that chain reaction that was "swing madness" would not have been triggered and jazz would not have obtained the status that for a short season America and the world gave it.
He wanted a guy like him [...] who was white, besides being young, but who belonged, like him, a Jew of Russian origin, to the America of the ghettos, the musically most creative one. [...] "

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