Though jazz mainly originated in the early 20th century among African-American musicians, by the early 1920s everyone realized jazz was awesome. Soon “big bands,” composed of ten or more musicians who sat or stood in rows while they were performing, formed to play Jazz songs. (Often the bands were segregated by race, but musicians are musicians are musicians, and were quicker than most to cross boundaries.) Though much more like Western Classical orchestras than free-flowing New Orleans “Dixieland ensembles,” they became popular in dance halls and on the recently accessible-to-the-masses radio, bringing jazz to the the nation. In this video you’ll see the big band of Benny Goodman, the best of the best.
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