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Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage AS the First Black-And-White Jazz Band in History

Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Follett Number: 4C159Y0
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2014
Format: CDs () : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN-13: 978-1-63379-519-8
ISBN-10: 1-63379-519-5
Dewey: 780
Classifications: Fiction

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It wasn't soft/It wasn't black/It wasn't sweet/It wasn't white/It was swing. Brought together by the love of playing jazz music, Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman broke the color barrier in entertainment when they formed the Benny Goodman Trio with Gene Krupa. This lush and lyrical picture book tells the story of how two musical prodigies from very different backgrounds - one a young black boy growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, the other the son of struggling Russian-Jewish immigrants from the West Side of Chicago - were brought together by their love of music, and helped create the jazz style known as swing.

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