Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Benny Goodman Band launch into their opening number, ‘Don’t Be That Way’. The drummer pushes the beat with urgent press rolls, ...

Earlier this year Worthing audiences were treated to a re-creation of Benny Goodman’s legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. For this concert, the BBC Big Band, led by clarinettist Ken Peplowski, came ...

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In that spirit, Mosaic Records is proud to present the Classic Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (1939-1958) - a treasure trove of seven CDs, spanning nearly 20 years of Goodman's ...

Benny Goodman, like Duke Ellington, lived nine musical lives. Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, ...

He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...

Gene Krupa "stole Benny [Goodman]'s thunder," says Kennith Kimery, executive producer of the SMithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. "In the end that cost him his job." Hugh Talman, NMAH, SI When I ...

Late musician and band leader Benny Goodman, known as the “King of Swing,” lived in this Stamford, Connecticut, property from 1952 until his death in 1986. When it came to composing his music, Goodman ...

One day last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family’s Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, ...