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 ...

Legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman has more than eighty albums to his name. Unlike many Goodman records, Ken Burns' JAZZ Series: Benny Goodman... Benny Goodman: 'Ken Burns' Jazz Series: Benny Goodman ...

In the luxurious rectangular box that is the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room, a wellrounded, balding businessman in spectacles put a clarinet to his lips and once again became a famous living trademark.

Dedicated to all the wonderful jazz musicians and pop stars from the first half of the 20th century, ranging from Bing Crosby to Jelly Roll Morton, and of course the one and only “King of Swing”, ...

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, ...

The clarinet, valued for its versatility, range and pure sinusoidal timbre, has enjoyed the attention of many of classical music’s greatest composers. Earning substantial credibility as a serious solo ...

In the U.S. popular music business, five years amounts to a cycle, and this week a cycle was completed: Band Leader Benny Goodman returned to his native Chicago. It was from Chicago, in 1936, that ...

Legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman has more than eighty albums to his name. Unlike many Goodman records, Ken Burns' JAZZ Series: Benny Goodman... [MUSIC] A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the ...