I remember very distinctly what it was like playing the clarinet part and Benny Goodman playing the lead, and it was very exciting. There are a total of 975 discs in the collection ... or working with ...

from the late 1930s when his popularity was already well established, throughout the 1950s when Benny would assemble the cream of the mainstream jazz world to be, even if it were just for one session, ...

Today recording and performance is on the RCA Victor label, recorded by Goodman and his orchestra on August 13, 1936. You can hear this song and more Benny Goodman on SIRIUS XM 73 40s Junction.

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 ...

"He was playing in smaller jazz groups by then," says Russ Connor, author of Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy. In the years after the big-band heyday, Connor adds, Goodman "had more time to ...

"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 ...

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 was crowned "The King Of Swing" after leading his 14-piece band through ... salute by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; at the Rochester International Jazz Festival in Rochester ...

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra All That Jazz, Vol. 22: From Jazz to Swing Benny Goodman, Vol. 1 (2014 Digital Remaster) ...

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 ...

Sixteen years later, Black, the associate director of the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music at UCLA, organized a tribute concert entitled “Benny Goodman: Ahead of His Time” with ...

Benny Goodman & His Orchestra All That Jazz, Vol. 22: From Jazz to Swing Benny Goodman, Vol. 1 (2014 Digital Remaster) ...