Old Klezmer Tune: Bublitschki – Ziggy Elman’s Orch., 1938

Ziggy ELMAN (né Harry Aaron Finkelman, b. Philadelphia 1914 -- d. Los Angeles 1968) was an American jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own band: Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. His father was a violinist who had hoped he would play violin as well. Although, he learned to play the violin, Harry preferred the brass intruments. He began playing for Jewish weddings and nightclubs in Atlantic City -- where his family moved when Ziggy was at age four - and in 1932 he had his