Editing Jazz (section)

===Jews in jazz===

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[[File:Al_Jolson_-_publicity.JPG|thumb|right|175px|[[Al Jolson]] in 1925]]
Jewish Americans played a significant role in jazz. As jazz spread, it developed to encompass many different cultures, and the work of Jewish composers in [[Tin Pan Alley]] helped shape the many different sounds that jazz came to incorporate.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/9-jews-who-changed-jazz-1.5352736 |title=Nine Jews Who Changed the Sound of Jazz |newspaper=Haaretz |access-date=November 13, 2021 |archive-date=November 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113023418/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/9-jews-who-changed-jazz-1.5352736 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Jewish Americans were able to thrive in Jazz because of the probationary whiteness that they were allotted at the time.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marin|first=Reva|date=December 2015|title=Representations of Identity in Jewish Jazz Autobiography|journal=Canadian Review of American Studies|volume=45|issue=3|pages=323–353|doi=10.3138/cras.2015.s10|s2cid=162673161|issn=0007-7720}}</ref> George Bornstein wrote that African Americans were sympathetic to the plight of the Jewish American and vice versa. As disenfranchised minorities themselves, Jewish composers of popular music saw themselves as natural allies with African Americans.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/howard-reich/ct-ent-jazz-body-soul-0207-story.html |title='Body and Soul' doc explores links between jazz and Jews |website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=February 6, 2018 |access-date=November 13, 2021 |archive-date=November 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113014541/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/howard-reich/ct-ent-jazz-body-soul-0207-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

''[[The Jazz Singer]]'' with [[Al Jolson]] is one example of how Jewish Americans were able to bring jazz, music that African Americans developed, into popular culture.<ref>{{Citation|title=The jazz singer.|isbn=978-1-7854-3944-5|oclc=970692281}}</ref> [[Benny Goodman]] was a vital Jewish American to the progression of Jazz. Goodman was the leader of a racially integrated band named King of Swing. His jazz concert in the [[Carnegie Hall]] in 1938 was the first ever to be played there. The concert was described by Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history".<ref>{{Citation|last=Goodman|first=Benny|title=Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall, 1938: complete.|date=2006|publisher=AVID Entertainment|oclc=213466278}}</ref>

[[Shep Fields]] also helped to popularize "Sweet" Jazz music through his appearances and [[big band remote]] broadcasts from such landmark venues as Chicago's [[Palmer House Hilton|Palmer House]], Broadway's [[Paramount Theater (New York City)|Paramount Theater]] and the Starlight Roof at the famed [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]]. He entertained audiences with a light elegant musical style which remained popular with audiences for nearly three decades from the 1930s until the late 1950s.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oaYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5fwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6717,4906729&dq=broadcast+hotel+shep+fields&hl=en The Telegraph, Feb. 24, 1981 p. 9 Shep Field Obituary on Google]</ref><ref name="The Big Bands - 4th Edition">[https://books.google.com/books?id=gj4DAwAAQBAJ&q=Shep+Fields&pg=PT325 ''The Big Bands - 4th Edition''] George T. Simon. Schirmer Trade Books, London, 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-8571-2812-6}} "Shep Fields Biography" on Books.google.com</ref><ref name="nyt1">{{cite web |title=SHEP FIELDS, LEADER OF BIG BAND KNOWEN FOR RIPPLING RYTHEM (Published 1981) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/24/obituaries/shep-fields-leader-of-big-band-knowen-for-rippling-rythem.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=28 October 2020 |date=24 February 1981}}</ref>