Jews and Blacks mingled easily in the American music scene of the 1940s and ’50s because they had much in common, and because it was fun
Playing music: Books on too-expensive concert tickets, the too-Jewish-sounding Simon and Garfunkel, and the just-Jewish-enough Louis Armstrong
Wrote ‘What A Wonderful World’ and ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Oran Etkin takes his cues from Malian griots, Louis Armstrong, and the shtetl
