"Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert of January 16 th, 1938, historically, is the most important concert in jazz history," says Phil Schaap, curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

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 ...

Benny Goodman: The King of Swing. by Monk Rowe September 28, 2024. Benny Goodman played a marvelous clarinet and his bands sold a ton of records while packing audiences into dance halls and ...

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.

Benny Goodman Week culminated on Friday, January 19th at the Harris Center in Folsom with a sold-out concert featuring Goodman band veteran Ken Peplowski and the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra ...

"Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert of January 16 th, 1938, historically, is the most important concert in jazz history," says Phil Schaap, curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

”I decided,” says Benny Goodman, ”to go and see my old apartment building. I haven`t been there for many years.” Chez Goodman, circa 1920, stands […] Skip to content.

A onetime stomping ground of Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing” bandleader, is for sale in Pacific Palisades at $6.195 million. The 1920s Spanish-style house is set on a third of an acre along ...

"Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert of January 16 th, 1938, historically, is the most important concert in jazz history," says Phil Schaap, curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center.