国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 4月6日 23時00分

Happy #JazzAppreciationMonth. This year, we're telling the story of Benny Carter, shown here with other touring members of Jazz at the Philharmonic in front of the Amsterdam Airport in 1966. Carter is in the middle right, holding a suit and wearing his iconic hat.
Carter's life and work as a saxophonist, composer, and band leader broke many racial barriers. When he began his musical career in the 1920s, white musicians would occasionally play at African American nightclubs, but African Americans were not allowed to even visit the white nightclubs of New York. For Carter, however, the color of skin did not matter; what mattered was a musician's quality of music. In 1936, Carter became a bandleader for the first interracial, multinational band. "The point was," he observed, "getting the best musicians available who were interested in doing this gig." Image credit: Benny Carter Collection, National Museum of American History.

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