He never won a regular competitive Grammy. Steve Allen portrayed Mr. Goodman in the 1956 movie ”The Benny Goodman Story,” for which Mr. Goodman did the music. Allen said he was ”proud to ...

He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny's mother never learned to speak English. His father worked for a tailor ...

In 1936 Elman joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as a trumpet player after playing ... since it has appeared in films up to 1997 and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1987. After his work ...

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 ...