“It happened to be ‘Tiger Rag’ by the Benny Goodman Trio,” he said. Soli Jehangir Sorabjee was born in Bombay on March 9, 1930, into a wealthy Parsi family. His father, Jehangir Sorabjee, was a businessman who died when Soli was 20; his mother, Khorshed Sorabjee, was a homemaker. Sorabjee was once asked which he would prefer to be, India’s chief justice or Benny Goodman. He replied, “I would any day play like Benny Goodman, which I’m doing in fantasy land now.”© 2021 New York Times News Service

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