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 ...

Lorry Black first fell in love with Benny Goodman’s album “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert” at band camp when he was just 14 years old. Sixteen years later, Black, the associate director of ...

"That January 16 th back in 1938 was a Sunday, and a cold one," Goodman recalled in a commentary recorded 12 years later. "We didn't quite know what would happen. How we would sound. What the audience ...

Close your eyes. Think 1938. Envision New York City and Carnegie Hall. If you are a big-band swing and jazz aficionado, you either are very familiar with the 1938 recording of the "Benny Goodman ...

On January 16, 1938, Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America’s venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert – widely considered one of the most ...

The night Benny Goodman and his Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall in January 1938 is celebrated in this joyous and complete recreation from Pete Long and his Goodmen. Everything is there – the ...

CONCORD ¿ On Sunday, Jan. 16, 1938, the world of Jazz and Swing changed forever. On Sunday, Jan. 16, The Capitol Center Jazz Orchestra and New York City clarinet virtuoso Ken Peplowski will salute the ...

The winter temperature was about the same as it was in 1938, but the ticket price at Carnegie Hall has soared from $2.75 for a box seat to a top of $119. The occasion marked the 70th anniversary of ...

1 Video: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finale This September, Ken Peplowski, described by The New York Times as "Goodman Straight Up, With A Twist of Lightning," joins the CCJO to salute this ...

Martha Tilton, a popular big-band vocalist best known for her recording of “And the Angels Sing” with the Benny Goodman orchestra in 1939, has died. She was 91. Known as “Liltin’ Martha Tilton” during ...

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, ...