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Gilmore Music Library. More than a hundred of jazz legend Benny Goodman’s personal film reels — including never-before-seen footage of rehearsals and home movies with the likes of Harpo Marx — have ...
NEW HAVEN >> Benny Goodman fans three centuries from now will ... have been working to save the images on his 16-mm and 35-mm film, as well as audio tracks on magnetic reels.
But, as the furor around the film Whiplash (well, to jazz people it was furor) reminds us, it's wise to keep the bar low. When Hollywood does jazz, it should stick to hagiography and cheesy romance: ...
Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way ...
Clarinetist Benny Goodman (1909-86) is considered by jazz historians to be ... The DVD presentation is more diffuse, drawing from Hollywood film performances that move from features to background ...
For the next decade, America’s most influential jazz artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and ... striking archival film footage, photos ...
Eighty years ago this month, legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, made history with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman ...