Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way, Goodman's ...

Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny's ...

"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 ...

Ninety years ago, Benny Goodman, a white clarinetist and bandleader, breached American society’s entrenched color line like a clarinet’s high note piercing a fog of static. By revealing the racially ...

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 ...

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 ...

When John Hammond invited Goodman over for a classical jam session, they played Mozart’s clarinet concerto. This recording of the concerto was cut in 1951, almost 15 years after the first ...

Uuden Musiikin Orkesteri UMO ja Antti Sarpila konsertoivat Tampere-talolla marraskuussa 1992. Konsertti oli kunnianosoitus swingin kuninkaalle, klarinetisti Benny Goodmanille. Tietolaatikko Lets's ...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

30.05.1909: Der US-amerikanische Jazzmusiker Benny Goodman wird geboren Seine ersten professionellen Auftritte als Musiker absolviert Benny Goodman in kurzen Hosen - und verdient so viel, dass sein ...

The Benny Goodman Band launch into their opening number, ‘Don’t Be That Way’. The drummer pushes the beat with urgent press rolls, but the band are edgy, afraid of cutting loose. Then comes a ...