Do American dialects include American music?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/1/2013 09:12 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Jan 1, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > 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!

Or did the cats come to understand Jewish music?

> >
>And don't forget George Gershwin!

The Boston Globe article names Gershwin and many others.

Joel

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