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Re: Artie Shaw Concerto

Author: GBK
Date: 2006-06-06 03:59

seafaris wrote:

> I love them both, but have always leaned a little toward Artie
> Shaw as the player, and Benny Goodman as the musician.

From a 1999 interview, Artie Shaw on Benny Goodman:

"...Benny was a superb technician, but he had a limited vocabulary. He never understood that there were more than a major, a minor and a diminished -- he just couldn't get with altered chords. We worked together for years in radio, and Benny was pretty dumb. His brother Freddy managed one of my last bands, and I once asked him what Benny was like as a kid. He said, "Stupid." I said, "How do you account for his success?" He said, "The clarinet was the only thing he knew," and it's true. He was sort of an idiot savant -- not quite idiot, but on the way. He didn't quite make it to idiocy..."

...GBK

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