When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...

Lorry Black first fell in love with Benny Goodman’s album “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert” at band camp when he was just 14 years old.

Benny Goodman, Terry Gibbs, Al Jolson, George Gershwin & Bill Charlap. by Joe Dimino February 23, 2025. Tune in for the 894th show, a jazz-filled hour celebrating the legendary artists featured in ...

On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman Orchestra became the first swing/jazz band ever to perform in America's citadel of high culture, previously reserved exclusively for classical music concerts.

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 … ...

To celebrate Benny Goodman 's innovative style, Riverwalk Jazz has assembled performances and stories from our stable of jazz greats drawn into his orbit—Lionel Hampton, Doc Cheatham, Helen Ward —and ...

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s ...

A program being webcast tonight and tomorrow night by Jazz at Lincoln Center will explore the little-known story of the 1936 formation, by clarinetist Benny Goodman, of a racially integrated jazz ...

Count Basie (search), Ella Fitzgerald (search) and Benny Goodman (search) head this year's class of 12 inductees to the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, which opened last fall at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Music; From one jazz master to another: Dan Block pays tribute to Benny Goodman. Published: ; Jul. 30, 2009, 6:57 p.m.

When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...