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Don't Be That Way (Carnegie Hall, 1938)

Benny Goodman · 1938

Context

Recorded live on 16 January 1938 at Carnegie Hall in New York, during the first appearance of a big band in that venue. It is one of the three contemporary pieces played at the opening, along with Sometimes I'm Happy and One O'Clock Jump; the recording was released in 1950 by Columbia.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Modern big bands. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.

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