Long before rock stars filled stadiums, Benny Goodman sparked America's first true youth music craze. As the face of the ...

Clarinetist Benny Goodman (1909-86) is considered by jazz historians to be one of the most important musicians in all of jazz, though not all of his important achievements were strictly musical. He is ...

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 ...

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, ...

Seventy years later, that music still makes your head spin, feet move and spirits rise. The sound of Benny Goodman - the blazing clarinet soaring above a riotously rocking big band or dancing with ...

(CBS 11) - Benny Goodman is recognized today as one of the most outstanding musicians and band leaders of the big band era of late 1930s and 1940s. Through his hard work and that of his band, he ...

How many Broadway shows has Benny Goodman been in? Benny Goodman has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Benny Goodman been in? Benny Goodman has not appeared in the West End ...

Great performers occasionally become great stars because they actually are great. But stardom often reflects many simmering impulses awaiting a rallying point. When they converge, each amplifies the ...

April 21, 2016 • The small group that made a bespectacled white clarinetist a star happened to be of jazz's first racially integrated bands. Wendell Pierce and four young clarinetists tell the story ...