Every successful big band leader featured brilliant soloists: Count Basie had Lester Young, Fletcher Henderson had Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman had Gene Krupa. But the Maestro, Duke Ellington ...

Called “Benny Meets Duke,” the concert will feature Ellington material as it was arranged for and performed by the Benny Goodman Orchestra in the Swing Era of the 1930s and ’40s. It’s ...

but also members of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands. Rachel Edelson, Benny Goodman's daughter and Sacramento-based college professor, remembers her father and his legacy 80 years after ...

Joya Sherrill, who sang with Duke Ellington as a teenager, toured the Soviet Union with Benny Goodman and was one of the first African-American performers to host a children’s television show ...

The sound of Benny Goodman - the blazing clarinet soaring ... Goodman's historic 1938 jazz concert at Carnegie Hall (where Duke Ellington, who'd been swinging his way all along, premiered his ...

Edward Kennedy (“Duke”) Ellington and Benjamin David (“Benny”‘) Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money ...

This photograph records an iconic moment amongst three jazz greats, in which Ella Fitzgerald performs while Duke Ellington (on left) and Benny Goodman (center) listen and watch with admiration and joy ...

Discover how the Cold War and Civil Rights movement collided when America asked Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman to travel as cultural ambassadors and combat ...

Helen Oakley Dance, jazz historian, promoter and record producer who worked with many of the legendary names in the business including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jane Harvey, the jazz vocalist who performed with the likes of Desi Arnaz, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, has died. She was 88. A spokesman for Harvey says the singer died ...