The sound of Benny Goodman - the blazing clarinet soaring above ... Like other music-mad Chicago kids, he fell under the spell of Louis Armstrong, clarinetist Jimmie Noone and other hot New ...

and Benny Goodman certainly fit that bill. Jon Hancock: So Sol Hurok went down to the Manhattan room in the Hotel Pennsylvania to see what all this fuss was about. And he was delighted to see that a ...

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 ...

The young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a Chicago music professor. He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by ...

Keep away from the instruments, kid!” they shouted. ”Get off the boat!” Undaunted, the lad took out his horn and started to play. Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined Bix ...

Inviting the Benny Goodman band to Carnegie Hall in early 1938 had the vaguely sarcastic aura of suggesting that hungry street urchins be served dinner at the Stork Club. It was all right for them ...

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 1940, the aspiring lyricist Alan Bergman was 15; he had a family friend who worked for NBC, and he was able to sneak into a rehearsal by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. "I heard Benny call ...

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 ...