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Re: Benny Goodman Questions!

Author: paulwl
Date: 2004-01-22 01:38

God love BG, cuss that he reportedly was. He and his records got me started in this whole mess.

I recognize Artie Shaw as a greater virtuoso, but only by a handsbreadth or so. I guess just because his tone was a little more plastic and alive to my ear.

But BG was there first. When hardly anybody who wasn't a native of New Orleans could play worthy jazz on a clarinet, he was doing it, and a mere teenager at that.

Not to mention his key role in redefining big band music – on a nationally sponsored program no less. "Let's Dance" did for pop music in 1935 what "Saturday Night Live" did for comedy in 1975: aprés lui, le déluge.

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