The Guardian has put up another piece on Jazz history, this time focusing on Benny Goodman. Read it here!
Ellington’s music and motivation was different to that of Benny Goodman, a white virtuoso clarinetist from Chicago who became a bigger star than Ellington during the 30s boom in big-band swing – a phenomenon as big in its day as rock’n'roll was to be two decades later.
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