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 ...
Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.
Benny Goodman, leader, clarinet; Mel Davis, John Frosk, Billy Hodges, trumpet; Rex Peer, Jack Rains, trombone; Peanuts Hucko, Al Black, Budd Johnson, Bill Slapin ...
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 ...
DECATUR — Remember the Benny Goodman clarinet sound? A young, remarkably accomplished Dave Bennett is bringing it to Decatur. Bennett leads a quartet into the Decatur Club for a Juvae Jazz Society ...