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, ...

Eighty years ago this month, legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, made history with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman ...

Inviting the Benny Goodman band to Carnegie Hall in early 1938 had the vaguely sarcastic aura of suggesting that hungry street urchins be served dinner at the Stork Club. It was all right for them to ...

Cal Collins, 68, a jazz guitar virtuoso and featured member of Benny Goodman’s band in the late 1970s, died Sunday of liver failure at his home in Dillsboro, Ind. Born in Medora, Ind., Collins was ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...