Posts Tagged: Benny Goodman
After Midnight, the (Jewish) Stars Come Out
JNS.org - From Tevye the dairyman to Maroon 5's Adam Levine to "Let It Go" singer Idina Menzel, Jews have always...
20th-Century American Music Owed Much to Jewish Artists
JNS.org - Discuss these names—Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Benny Goodman—with author/musician Ben Sidran, and you will understand how being Jewish, the Jews'...
An Unorthodox Jazz Musician, Encountering Mixed Reactions to His Jewish Music
At first you may be skeptical of Isaiah Richardson Jr. He doesn't look like somebody who would be playing Hava Nagila for passengers waiting for...