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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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TOKYO — Benny Goodman, an older idol, made a few comments on the newest teen-age idols, the Beatles, at a press conference after arriving here Saturday. "The youngsters of every generation need their ...

Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999. DAVID ...

The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth reveals eclectic connections between music icons Brahms, Benny Goodman, and Dohnányi during its firsts concert of the 2025-26 season, ...