A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : ALL THAT JAZZ DIDN'T HURT ROBINSON'S BREAKTHROUGH, EITHER.(SPORTS)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: April 13, 1997 | Copyright information

It is taking nothing away from Jackie Robinson to point out that the way was paved for him not by Branch Rickey, but by a black pianist named Teddy Wilson and a white clarinetist named Benny Goodman, writes author James Lincoln Collier in the New York Times.

``Jazz has never lacked for racists, but they have never been the majority,'' according to Collier, whose most recent book is ``Jazz: The American Theme Song.''

Collier points out that by the 1930s, racial...

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