The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at July 3, 1863: At Gettysburg, Union troops in the 1st West Virginia ...

Chalkias found an unlikely second stage: dimly-lit clubs filled with Greek emigres and curious outsiders. Among those drawn to his performances were jazz legends Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.

Fans in Greece are paying their respects to clarinetist Petroloukas Chalkias, whose hypnotic, note-bending performances over the course of seven decades made him a hero of mountain folk music.

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By the mid-1940s, PoPsie had married a showgirl and was ready to settle down in New York. He told Benny Goodman that he was interested in photography and Goodman gave him his first camera as a wedding ...

RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...

The native of East Orange, N.J., is credited with more than 300 cover shots for Sports Illustrated over a 58-year span, including 40 years as the primary photographer for the magazine's famed Swimsuit ...

Benny Goodman, the famed “King of Swing,” lived in this Stamford, Conn., New England Colonial from 1952 until his death in 1986.

Over the years, Roseland hosted legendary acts like Benny Goodman (May 5, 1938), Tommy Dorsey (Feb. 7, 1939), Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller (Feb. 14, 1939), Louis Armstrong (Nov. 11, 1942), Frank ...

A photographer Wolff was employed at a music store owned by Milt Gabler, another American Jewish jazz aficionado and small label owner. Gabler would offer essential help to Blue Note in its early ...

CHARLESTON — The Charleston Community Band concert on Thursday, June 23 will feature one of its founding musicians, clarinetist Jayne Ozier, on "Benny Goodman: The King of Swing" medley.