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

32 pp. | Holiday | January, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-2362-0 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-8234-3141-0
(2) K-3 Illustrated by James E. Ransome. Goodman grew up in Chicago, a working-class Jewish boy; Wilson lived in Tuskegee, Alabama, a middle-class African American boy. The story of how the two jazz musicians met and formed the Benny Goodman Trio (the "first interracial band to perform publicly") is recounted in short bursts of text, almost like jazz riffs, accompanied by pencil and watercolor illustrations that capture distinctive moments. Timeline.
Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014

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