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Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

Holiday House, 2014

illustrated by James E. Ransome

Brought together by the love of jazz, Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson is the story of how two musical prodigies, one a young boy who studied music at Tuskegee College in Alabama, the other the son of struggling Jewish immigrants from the West Side of Chicago, came together through music and helped create the style of music known as swing.

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