Of all the genres of music perhaps Jazz has the most intriguing history as far as Jews are concerned. You might expect that given its origins, it was an Afro-American 'thing'. Well there's some nice trivia ahead, including Benny Goodman, Satchmo, Gershwin, and Cab Calloway.
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