[Dixielandjazz] Re: Jews and Jazz

[dingle at baldwin-net.com]

Laurence Swain wrote:

>Timely!
>
>PBS in Boston (WGBH-TV) at 8 o'clock tonight is carrying a program devoted to the same 
>subject.
>
>Perhap a PBS station in your area is doing the same.
>
>This from the WGBH Web site:
>
>    Great Performances
>    From Shtetl to Swing 
>
>    Between 1880 and 1924, 2.5 million Jews left their small-town "shtetls" in Russia 
>    and Eastern Europe and emigrated to America. America would reshape Jewish 
>    identity, and Jewish popular entertainment would change 20th-century American 
>    music.
>
>    Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Benny Goodman, Al 
>    Jolson, the Marx brothers, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Molly Picon, Eddie Cantor, 
>    Gene Krupa, Harold Arlen, Artie Shaw — these kids from New York's Lower East 
>    Side all became cultural pioneers, shaking off their past yet taking full advantage of 
>    their Yiddish musical heritage.
>
>     What emerged was a cross-pollination of Jewish and African American musical 
>    influences — two traditions born out of exile and longing, charged with energy and 
>    humor. From Shtetl to Swing reveals how these musical heritages blossomed into a 
>    new, diverse musical lexicon that gave voice to the American melting pot. Harvey 
>    Fierstein hosts. 
>
>Larry Swain
>
>
>
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Saw it tobight and it was well done. the Jews and Jazz connection made 
well. Good clips from big bands and early jazz films, and a deight to 
see the Goodman quartette with Hampton, Wilson, and Kroupa in fine form.
However, Kroups was a Polish Catholic from Chicago's large Polish 
population, and not a Jew as listed above
Don Ingle

Don Ingle