Today is Mardis Gras and it's also Black History Month. Jews played a large role in Jazz – the quintessential Black American music form invented in New Orleans just before 1900, from the Jewish family who gave the young teenaged Louis Armstrong a job and looked after him, to some very well-known Jazz musicians like Benny Goodman. And if you listen carefully, you can hear Klezmer licks in some second generation Jazz hits. But many Americans are no longer familiar with the music that swept the world and morphed into Blues and Rock and Roll. So here a few Jazz and New Orleans Funk hits – including Cab Calloway's "Where's Yehoodi?" – Klezmer fans, Jazz fans and Blues fans – even fans of cantorial music – will like.
Above: Louis Armstrong in 1933 Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, NYWT&S Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-111157]
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A Musical Interlude
Today is Mardis Gras and it's also Black History Month. Jews played a large role in Jazz – the quintessential Black American music form invented in New Orleans just before 1900, from the Jewish family who gave the young teenaged Louis Armstrong a job and looked after him, to some very well-known Jazz musicians like Benny Goodman. And if you listen carefully, you can hear Klezmer licks in some second generation Jazz hits. But many Americans are no longer familiar with the music that swept the world and morphed into Blues and Rock and Roll. So here a few Jazz and New Orleans Funk hits – including Cab Calloway's "Where's Yehoodi?" – Klezmer fans, Jazz fans and Blues fans – even fans of cantorial music – will like.
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