Cats in Asia When he blew into Burma and gave out with some hot licks at the University of Rangoon, Jazzman Benny Goodman was greeted after the performance by ex-Prime Minister U Nu, who cried ecstatically : "Your music makes my toes tickle!" It was like that all along Goodman's route through Asia. Benny and his band were scoring the same kind of rocking success in their Far East tour that Dizzy Gillespie had in the Middle East last year and Louis Armstrong had in Africa.
In Thailand, Benny had left audiences stomping with excitement (and forced competing...
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