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, ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bandleader and clarinetist Benny ... and his brand of swing jazz helped pave the way for nearly every form of popular music that has followed since. Goodman and his orchestra played in Buffalo ...

With an ear toward the real swing thing, Goodman hired Henderson to pen arrangements for his big band. "After Benny Goodman's ... director of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. "Swing wasn't polite.

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

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

NEW HAVEN >> Benny Goodman ... his thing on classics such as “Sing, Sing, Sing,” at least if Yale has anything to do with it. The great clarinetist and bandleader died in 1986, but his ...