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 ...

The “King of Swing” is getting a second life on the silver screen thanks to an extensive preservation project at Yale’s Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. More than a hundred of jazz legend Benny ...

Benny Goodman, a complex man who was loved by many, disliked by others and always in command, kept his music refreshingly vibrant and honest, as befit the Swing Era’s renowned King of Swing. Benny’s ...

Now that Benny Goodman’s night at Carnegie Hall is largely beyond the sentimental gravitation of nostalgia and no one is left alive who can speak of it from memory, it runs the risk of becoming small.

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 101 Six Flats Unfurnished / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 Idaho / Benny Goodman, Dick Haymes.

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, ...

A program being webcast tonight and tomorrow night by Jazz at Lincoln Center will explore the little-known story of the 1936 formation, by clarinetist Benny Goodman, of a racially integrated jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...