Sponsor Message The concert was recorded, but there were no plans to release it. "Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert of January 16 th, 1938, historically, is the most important concert in jazz ...

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 ...

On Aug. 21, 1935, Benny Goodman and his band were turning in an uninspired set before thousands at the Palomar Ballroom, billed as the largest dance hall on the West Coast, at 3rd Street and Vermont ...

Benny Goodman, the Chicago-born Big Band ”King of Swing” who introduced jazz to Carnegie Hall and the Soviet Union and was the first musician to bring blacks into a white orchestra ...