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Benny Goodman And Elie Wilson Analysis

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From what I found, Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson were one of the first musicians to breakthrough the racial stigma in the 1930s-1950s. Though there have been instances of "interracial recording sessions before," but whenever they gave their first performance at the Congress Hotel in 1936, it was groundbreaking. Leonard Feather, a British jazz pianist, described it as "an historic precedent, the magnitude of which can hardly be appreciated today in correct perspective." Whenever the two perform, it is as though they in sync with one another. Even Goodman explained that when they play they are "thinking with the same brain." During this time, segregation was so prominent that even in music black and white do not mix. However, because of Goodman
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