Clarinetist Benny Goodman (1909-86) is considered by jazz historians to be one of the most important musicians in all of jazz, though not all of his important achievements were strictly musical. He is ...

just before Billie Holiday revolutionized jazz singing. Talk about passing the torch! We’re looking at the many singers that worked with Benny Goodman and his Orchestra this hour. The mid-to ...

Benny Goodman, the Chicago-born Big Band ”King of Swing” who introduced jazz to Carnegie Hall and the Soviet Union and was the first musician to bring blacks into a white orchestra, died ...

More than a hundred of jazz legend Benny Goodman ... in the Ben Pollack Orchestra. Goodman formed his own big band in 1934 and, according to the library’s online guide to the collection, “achieved ...

"Benny Goodman ... at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center and another planned later this week by the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra. At a 30 th anniversary celebration in 1968, Goodman insisted that ...

The goals of the Stan Rubin Orchestra are simple ... spanning over 50 years, Benny Goodman became synonymous with swing and jazz orchestras, renown for his talents as a bandleader, conductor ...

Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, braced by enormous self-confidence at age 20, Goodman went out ...

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

"Whispering" has the clarinetist in a playful mood and "Memories of You" and "Body and Soul" are vintage Goodman. "Don't Get Around Much Any More" gives Wootton a chance to show his stuff and ...

Eighty years ago, barriers were broken when Benny ... Jazz at Lincoln Center and another planned later this week by the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra. At a 30 th anniversary celebration in 1968 ...

author of Living with Jazz. "And that was one huge blow to Benny, because Benny was very close to his father." Integrating The Band Goodman went on to have a huge impact on American culture beyond ...