Do American dialects include American music?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 2 01:40:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> bent and 'blue' notes were common in Jewish music

So, *that's* how come Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz, Dave
Brubeck, Shelley Manne, Rene Bloch, et al. could dig jazz!

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