Jon Hancock: So Sol Hurok went down to the Manhattan room in the Hotel Pennsylvania to see ... Today, we’re examining the item that was the reason the archives at the Rose Museum were created: Benny ...

The sound of the opener is unmistakable; it's the familiar, driving urgency of Benny Goodman's clarinet ... a 1986 take on the classic "Blue Room," by what was to be Goodman's final big band, is ...

American Anthem (Norah Jones); Walton, The Death of Falstaff (Leonard Slotkin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra); The Wang Wang Blues (Benny Goodman Sextet); Movin ... (Charlie Barnett and His ...

Benny Goodman ... Fats Waller (Honeysuckle Rose), George and Ira Gershwin (The Man I Love), Irving Berlin (Blue Skies) and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Blue Room). One of the most celebrated ...

Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way ...