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Jazz Musician of the Day: Cole Porter

Published: 2011-06-09
Cole Porter

All About Jazz is celebrating Cole Porter's birthday today!

WHILE the 1920\'s ended on December 30, 1929--and a far different political, social, and sociological climate prevailed during the ensuing decade--a number of highly gifted writers managed to keep alive in the musical theater of the 1930\'s some of the feverish spirit and the unconventional attitudes of the “roaring Twenties." The most significant of these was Cole Porter...WHILE the 1920\'s ended on December 30, 1929--and a far different political, social, and sociological climate prevailed during the ensuing decade--a number of highly gifted writers managed to keep alive in the musical theater of the 1930\'s some of the feverish spirit and the unconventional attitudes of the “roaring Twenties." The most significant of these was Cole Porter... more

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