When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...

The Legacy Of The Benny Goodman Quartet WBGO and Jazz at Lincoln Center. April 21, 2016 • The small group that made a bespectacled white clarinetist a star happened to be of jazz's first ...

Radio & Podcasts Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap. by Joe Dimino February 23, 2025. Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary ...

When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...

Lorry Black first fell in love with Benny Goodman’s album “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert” at band camp when he was just 14 years old.

Benny Goodman’s Clarinet Late in his career, jazz musician Benny Goodman favored a Parisian “licorice stick” as his instrument of choice ...

To celebrate Benny Goodman 's innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward —and ...

On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman Orchestra became the first swing/jazz band ever to perform in America's citadel of high culture, previously reserved exclusively for classical music concerts.

”I decided,” says Benny Goodman, ”to go and see my old apartment building. ... Chicago and New York, culminating in 1938 with an unprecedented jazz concert in prissy Carnegie Hall.

When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...