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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 was remarkable in more ways than we often realize. Obviously, his clarinet playing was extraordinary in tone, technique and soulful expression. But his musical judgment, assembly of ...

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 had already broken new ground when he performed with his jazz and swing band in Carnegie Hall on January 16, 1938. The prestigious venue famous for hosting great classical musicians was ...

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 ...

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