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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
From the time he was very young, Brooks Tegler was interested in music. He pointed toward the drums even at elementary school age. In his teens Tegler turned to rock ‘n roll, as did many of his friends.
As the years went by, the rock music grew heavier and harder, louder and louder. Suddenly, as Tegler approached his midtwenties, his mother noticed that the family’s Glenn Miller album seemed to be in use a lot.
Then one day that swing music collection and other 1930s and 40s era vinyl seemed to up and walk out of the house. Tegler had stepped up from leaden rock to the older, easier sounds of swing. Some liked to call it “jump jazz.”
That musical era had its giants, people , who set the tone and the beat for much of the music world. Chief among them were Benny Goodman and those around him.
Benjamin David Goodman was born of Russian parents in Chicago in 1909. Thus he
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