American Anthem (Norah Jones); Walton, The Death of Falstaff (Leonard Slotkin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra); The Wang Wang Blues (Benny Goodman Sextet); Movin ... (Charlie Barnett and His ...

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 ...

Benny Goodman ... Fats Waller (Honeysuckle Rose), George and Ira Gershwin (The Man I Love), Irving Berlin (Blue Skies) and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Blue Room). One of the most celebrated ...

In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras led by drummer Chick Webb and clarinetist Benny Goodman rose to prominence with the arrangements of Edgar Sampson and Fletcher Henderson. After launching the careers ...

Case closed: two minutes later, Benny Goodman had joined ... A year later, with underwriting from Hammond, Goodman formed his first band, which opened at Billy Rose’s Music Hall in New York ...