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, ...
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 ...
JAZZ BAND CLASSIC CONcludes ITS THIRD SEASON WITH THE MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN AND FEATURES CLARINETIST VICTOR GOINES. Swing-Era Big Band Performs at Church of the Good Shepherd near Lincoln Center on ...
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 ...