Why is the 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert so Important?
The 1938 Concert marks the acceptance of jazz as a legitimate art form by the opinion makers for mainstream American society. Legend holds that the idea to present the Goodman band in concert at Carnegie Hall began as a publicity stunt by Wynn Nathanson, Goodman’s publicist. (The publicity stunt assertion shows up hunderds of times, but “Wynn Nathanson” shows up nowhere else on the internet.
