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Article: Benny Goodman: The Birth of Swing, 1935-1936.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 16, 1992
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Benny Goodman: The Birth of Swing 1935-1936 (BMG/Bluebird 61038-2). For many in the mid-Thirties, swing music began to go round and round with Benny Goodman and his orchestra. He not only had superlative arrangements, many of them by Fletcher Henderson, but he also had among his sidemen some of the best white jazz musicians--Bunny Berigan, Jack Teagarden, Jess Stacy, and that exhibitionist but excellent drummer Gene Krupa. (One of Krupa's great lines, after the Carnegie Hall jazz concert of 1938: "There I was on drums, spitting out my gum where Toscanini walked the night before.") Goodman ...
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