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  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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  Anita O'Day
  '''Anita O'Day''' (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer.
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• Arthur Schutt
  Arthur Schutt (Born Reading, Pennsylvania - November 21, 1902. Died San Francisco, California - January 28, 1965) was an American jazz pianist and arranger.
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• Babe Russin
  Irving "Babe" Russin (June 18, 1911 - August 4, 1984) was a tenor saxophone player. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Russin played with some of the best known jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s, including Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. He led his own band briefly in the early 1940s. He solos in the recording the Glenn Miller band made of Jerry Gray's composition, "A String of Pearls" for Bluebird Records in 1941. In 1950, Russin is credited as a musician with the backup band on two Frank Sinatra
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• Ben Pollack
  Ben Pollack (June 22, 1903 – June 7, 1971) was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James. This ability earned him the nickname "Father of Swing".
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• Ben Selvin
  Ben Selvin (March 5, 1898 – July 15, 1980), son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music.
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  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired worldwide for her deeply personal, intimate approach to singing.
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• Buddy Greco
  Buddy Greco (born Armando Greco, August 14, 1926, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American singer and pianist.
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  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók ( (Wells 1990), ) (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.
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  Carl Maria von Weber
  Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18–19 November 17864–5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
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• Charlie Chaplin
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  Charlie Christian
  Charles Henry "Charlie" Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.
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  Charlie Parker
  Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), famously called Bird, or Yardbird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the 20th century. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1903.
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  Coleman Hawkins
  Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was the first important jazz musician to use the instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn". While Hawkins is most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s,
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  Count Basie
  William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. Basie's theme songs were "One O'Clock Jump" and "April In Paris".
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• Dick McDonough
  Dick McDonough (1904-May 25, 1938) was an influential American jazz guitarist and composer. His major recordings included "Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe" with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Johnny Mercer, "Stage Fright" with Carl Kress, "Chasin' a Buck", "Feelin' No Pain", recorded in 1927 with Red Nichols, and "Chicken a la Swing".
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  Dizzy Gillespie
  John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
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  Donna Reed
  Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American film and television actress.
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• Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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  Dustin Hoffman
  Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable types of characters.
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• Freddie Greene
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  Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an influential American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.
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• George Auld
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• George Benson
  George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multi Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin'. He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
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  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – missing December 15, 1944) was an American jazz musician (trombone), arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big bands". Miller's signature recordings include In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Moonlight Serenade, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000. While traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Miller's plane disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. His body has never been found.
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  Guy Lombardo
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian, then American bandleader and violinist.
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  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983) was an American musician and bandleader. James was an instrumentalist of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work identifiable. He was one of the most popular bandleaders of the first half of the 1940s, and he continued to lead his band until just before his death, 40 years later.
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• Helen Oakley Dance
  Helen Margaret Oakley Dance, née Oakley (February 15, 1913 — May 27, 2001) was a jazz journalist, producer, historian, and musician. She is perhaps best known for production and for her biography of T-Bone Walker. She was married to critic Stanley Dance for over 50 years.
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• Herb Caen
  :For the hockey player, please see Herb Cain.
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  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky () ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
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• Ingolf Dahl
  Ingolf Dahl (June 9, 1912 – August 6, 1970) was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator.
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  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones (January 31, 1894 – October 19, 1956) was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.
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• Israel Crosby
  Israel Crosby (19 January 1919–11 August 1962) was an African-American jazz double-bassist born in Chicago, Illinois, best known as member of the Ahmad Jamal trio from 1957-1962. A close contemporary to Jimmy Blanton, Crosby is less considered as a pioneer, but his interactive playing in Jamal's trio and Shearing's trio shows how easily and fluently he displayed a modern approach to jazz double bass. He is credited with taking the first recorded bass solo on his 1935 recording of 'Blues for Israel' with drummer Gene Krupa (Prestige PR 7644) when he was only 16. He died of a heart attack two months after joining the George Shearing Quintet.[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink;=ISRAEL|CROSBY&sql;=11:dzftxqt5ldfe~T1 Allmusic biography]
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  Jackie Robinson
  Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of his character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
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  Jane Addams
  Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. She was the most prominent woman of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health and world peace. She emphasized that women have a special responsibility to clean up their communities and make them better places to live, arguing they needed the vote to be effective. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy.
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  Jess Stacy
  Jess Stacy (August 11, 1904 – January 1, 1995) was an American jazz pianist who became famous during the Swing Era.
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• Jimmy Noone
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• Joe Sullivan
  Michael Joseph "Joe" '''O'Sullivan''' (November 4, 1906 – October 13, 1971) was an American jazz pianist.
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  Joe Venuti
  Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
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  Joel Selvin
  Joel Selvin is a San Francisco-based music critic and author known for his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle which ran from 1972 to 2009. Selvin has written books covering various aspects of pop music and has interviewed a large number of musical artists. Selvin has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard, Melody Maker and has written liner notes for dozens of recorded albums. He has appeared in documentaries about the music scene and has occasionally taken the stage himself as a rock and roll singer.
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  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms () (7 May 18333 April 1897), was a German composer and pianist, one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms' popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the Three Bs.
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• John H. Hammond
  John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s. In his service as a talent scout, Hammond became one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music.
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• Johnny Dodds
  Johnny Dodds (April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940) was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was also the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds. The pair worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926.
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  Joseph Urban
  Joseph Urban (May 26, 1872 – July 10, 1933) Born in Vienna, Austria, died in New York City, trained as an architect, known also for his theatrical design and his early illustrations of children's books.
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  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of making use of archival footage and photographs. Among his most notable productions are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), and (2009).
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  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein (, ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He was probably best known to the public as the longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, for conducting concerts by many of the world's leading orchestras, and for writing the music for West Side Story, Candide, Wonderful Town, and On the Town. Bernstein was the first classical music conductor to make numerous television appearances between 1954 and 1989. He had a formidable piano technique and as a composer also wrote symphonies and other concert music. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
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  Lionel Hampton
  Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
  http://wn.com/Lionel_Hampton
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  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven ( (US) or (UK); ; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.
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  Malcolm Arnold
  Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 - 23 September 2006) was an English composer and symphonist.
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  Martha Tilton
  Martha Tilton (November 14, 1915, Corpus Christi, Texas -December 8, 2006, Brentwood, California) was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. She was sometimes introduced as '''The Liltin' Miss Tilton'''.
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  Mary Lou Williams
  Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie.
  http://wn.com/Mary_Lou_Williams
• Mel Powell
  Mel Powell (February 12, 1923 - April 24, 1998) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.
  http://wn.com/Mel_Powell
• Mildred Bailey
  Mildred Bailey (February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "Mrs. Swing". Her number one hits were "Please Be Kind", "Darn That Dream", and "Says My Heart".
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• Morton Gould
  Morton Gould (December 10, 1913 – February 21, 1996) was an American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist.
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• nigger
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  Raymond Scott
  Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, 10 September 1908 — 8 February 1994), was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. He was born in Brooklyn to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants. His older brother, Mark Warnow, a conductor, violinist, and musical director for the CBS radio program Your Hit Parade, encouraged his musical career. Though Scott never scored cartoon soundtracks, his music is familiar to millions because of its adaptation by Carl Stalling in over 120 classic Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and other Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated features. Scott's melodies have also been heard in twelve Ren & Stimpy episodes (that used the original Scott recordings), while making cameos in The Simpsons, Duckman, Animaniacs, The Oblongs, and Batfink. (The only music Scott actually composed to accompany animation were three 20-second electronic commercial jingles for County Fair Bread in 1962.)
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• Reginald Kell
  Reginald Clifford Kell (8 June 19065 August 1981) was a British clarinetist.
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• Simeon Bellison
  Simeon Bellison (December 4, 1883 – May 4, 1953), born in Moscow, he was naturalised American after settling in the US in 1921.
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• Spud Murphy
  Lyle Stephanovic, better known as Spud Murphy (August 19, 1908 - August 5, 2005) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and arranger.
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• Stan Hasselgard
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  Steve Allen
  Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen ( – ) was an American television personality, musician, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best-known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on ''Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, The New Steve Allen Show'', and was a regular panel member on CBS' ''What's My Line?''
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• Ted Lewis (musician)
  Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis (June 6, 1892 – August 25, 1971), was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment" or Ted "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis.
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  Teddy Wilson
  Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist whose sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. He is considered one of the most influential jazz pianists of all time.
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  Thelonious Monk
  Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser" and "Well, You Needn't". Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1,000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.
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  Victor Borge
  Victor Borge ( ; January 3, 1909 – December 23, 2000), born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.
  http://wn.com/Victor_Borge
• Woody Herman
  Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987), known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders. His bands basically played jazz and blues, often including rather experimental material for their time.
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• Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat () (1 January 1900 – 27 October 1990) was a Spanish American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman. In New York, his was the resident orchestra at the Waldorf-Astoria before and after World War II.
  http://wn.com/Xavier_Cugat
• Ziggy Elman
  Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 – June 26, 1968), better known by the stage name Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra.
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• Zoot Sims
  John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 - March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor and soprano.
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  Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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  Illinois
  Illinois ( {{respell|-i-), is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. It is the most populous state in the Midwest region, however with 65% of its residents concentrated in the Chicago metropolitan area, most of the state has either a rural or a small town character. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and western Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is an important transportation hub; the Port of Chicago connects the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. As the "most average state", Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics, though the latter has not really been true since the early 1970s.
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  Lithuania
  Lithuania (, U.S. usually ; ), officially the Republic of Lithuania () is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest.
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  New Orleans
  New Orleans ( or , locally or ; ) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area, (New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner) has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population of 1,360,436 as of 2000.
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  Oakland, California
  Oakland () is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California. It is a major West Coast port, located on San Francisco Bay, about 8 miles (13 km) east of San Francisco. Oakland is a major hub city for the Bay Area subregion collectively called the East Bay, and it is the county seat of Alameda County. Based on United States Census Bureau estimates for 2010, Oakland is the 41st-largest city in the USA with a population of 446,901.
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  Warsaw
  Warsaw ( ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2009 was estimated at 1,711,466, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000. The city area is , with an agglomeration of (Warsaw Metro Area Obszar Metropolitalny Warszawy). Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.
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  Yale University
  Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
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• RCA Victor
• Red Nichols
• Reginald Kell
• Roll 'Em, Vol. 1
• Roll 'Em, Vol. 2
• Room 1411
• Rose Room
• Russian Empire
• Sextet
• Simeon Bellison
• Sing, Sing, Sing
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Spud Murphy
• Stage Door Canteen
• Stan Hasselgard
• Steve Allen
• Swedish Pastry
• Sweet and Lowdown
• Swing (genre)
• swing era
• Swing Into Spring
• Swing music
• symphony orchestra
• Syncopation
• Ted Lewis (musician)
• Teddy Wilson
• The Birth of Swing
• The Powers Girl
• Thelonious Monk
• Tommy Dorsey
• Undercurrent Blues
• Union Stock Yards
• V-Disc
• Victor Borge
• Victor Records
• Vocalion Records
• Wardell Gray
• Warsaw
• Woody Herman
• Wynn Nathanson
• Xavier Cugat
• Yale University
• Ziggy Elman
• Zoot Sims

Goodman, Benny Filmography

• Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
• Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008)
• From Shtetl to Swing (2005)
• The Great American Songbook (2003)
• Fanfare for America: The Composer Aaron Copland (2001)
• The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
• Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley (1999)
• The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
• Benny Goodman's Greatest Hits (1997)
• Benny Goodman: Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing (1993)
• (1992-05-22) (1992)
• The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
• Benny Goodman: Let's Dance - A Musical Tribute (1986)
• The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (1986)
• Åke Hasselgård story (1983)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982)
• Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978)
• (1979-03-08) (1975)
• Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
• Timex All Star Swing Festival (1972)
• (1971-03-04) (1971)
• Masterpieces and Music (1966)
• (1965-03-22) (1965)
• Borge & Company (1965)
• The World of Benny Goodman (1963)
• (1965-10-13) (1963)
• (1962-07-22) (1962)
• Till Autumn (1962)
• (#2.1) (1962)
• (1966-11-16) (1962)
• Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (1961)
• Holiday in Music (1960)
• See America with Ed Sullivan: Chicago (1960)
• (#13.38) (1960)
• Swing Into Spring! (1959)
• (1959-12-17) (1959)
• (#1.14) (1958)
• (1958-07-06) (1958)
• No Science (1958)
• Crescendo (1957)
• (#10.21) (1957)
• (1957-10-19) (1957)
• (#1.14) (1956)
• (#4.22) (1956)
• Allen in Movieland (1955)
• (1950-10-22) (1950)
• Star Time (1950)
• A Song Is Born (1948)
• Make Mine Music (1946)
• Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
• Road to Victory (1944)
• Upbeat in Music (1943)
• The Powers Girl (1943)
• The Gang's All Here (1943)
• Stage Door Canteen (1943)
• Syncopation (1942)
• Birth of the Blues (1941)
• For Auld Lang Syne (1938)
• Hollywood Hotel (1937)

Benny Goodman

Releases by album:

Sextet | Sing, Sing, Sing | Ain't Misbehavin' | The Birth of Swing (1935-1936) (disc 1) | Swing Time | Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Quintet | Weber and Nielsen Clarinet Concertos - Chicago Symphony Orchestra | The big band sound | Yale Recordings, Volume 8: Recordings From Benny Goodman's Private Collection | Yale Recordings, Volume 10: The Original Benny Goodman Quartet | The Benny Goodman Yale Archives - Vol.1 | Goodnight My Love | B.G. in Hi-Fi |

Album releases

Sextet (Released 2010)

• Lullaby Of The Leaves
• Temptation Rag
• How Am I To Know
• Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
• I'll Never Be The Same
• Farewell Blues
• Undecided
• I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
• East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
• Four Or Five Times
• Under A Blanket Of Blue
• Bye Bye Blues

Sing, Sing, Sing (Released 2005)

• Sing, Sing, Sing
• Popcorn Man
• Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
• I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
• Bach Goes To Town
• And The Angels Sing
• Who'll buy my bublitchki (The pretzel vendor song)
• Stealin' Apples
• Rose Room
• Flying Home
• Darn That Dream
• Zaggin' With Zig
• Busy As A Bee
• Boy Meets Goy
• Wholly Cats
• Benny Rides Again
• Taking A Chance On Love
• Superman

Ain't Misbehavin' (Released 1999)

• Lady Be Good
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Makin' Whopee
• I've Got It Bad
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• All of Me
• Darn That Dream
• Alone Together
• Limehouse Blues

The Birth of Swing (1935-1936) (disc 1) (Released 1991)

• Hunkadola, Take 1
• Hunkadola, Take 2
• I'm Livin' in a Great Big Way
• Hooray for Love
• The Dixieland Band
• Japanese Sandman
• You're a Heavenly Thing
• Restless
• Always
• Get Rhythm in Your Feet
• Ballad in Blue
• Blue Skies
• Dear Old Southland
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• King Porter Stomp
• The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
• Jingle Bells
• Santa Claus Came in the Spring
• Good-Bye
• Madhouse, Take 1
• Madhouse, Take 2
• Sandman
• Yankee Doodle Never Went to Town
• No Other One

Swing Time (Released 1991)

• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Basin Street Blues
• Stompin' at the Savoy
• Swingtime in the Rockies
• Pick Yourself Up
• He Ain't Got Rhythm
• Roll 'em
• One O'Clock Jump
• Ooooo-Oh Boom
• Undecided
• A Smo-o-oth One
• The Man I Love
• King Porte Stomp
• All Star Strut
• Royal Flush
• Rosetta

Mozart Clarinet Concerto and Quintet (Released 1987)

• Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K. 622: I. Allegro
• Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K. 622: II. Adagio
• Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K. 622: III. Rondo. Allegro
• Clarinet Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola & Cello in A major, K. 581 "Stadler Quintet": I. Allegro
• Clarinet Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola & Cello in A major, K. 581 "Stadler Quintet": II. Larghetto
• Clarinet Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola & Cello in A major, K. 581 "Stadler Quintet": III. Minuetto
• Clarinet Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola & Cello in A major, K. 581 "Stadler Quintet": IV. Allegretto con variazioni

Weber and Nielsen Clarinet Concertos - Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Released 1986)

• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73 - Allegero
• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73 - Adagio ma non troppo
• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73 - Rondo: Allegretto
• Nielsen Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57
• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74 - Allegro
• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74 - Andante con moto
• Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74 - Alla polacca

The big band sound

• Let's Dance
• King Porter Stomp
• Christopher Columbus
• Sing, Sing, Sing
• You Turned the Tables on Me
• Bugle Call Rag
• It Had to Be You
• Bach Goes to Town
• There's a Small Hotel
• Rose of Washinton Square

Yale Recordings, Volume 8: Recordings From Benny Goodman's Private Collection

• It's All Right With Me
• Willow Weep for Me
• My Little Grass Shack
• Too Many Tears
• Easy to Love
• Who
• Sweet Leilani
• Song of the Islands
• The Moon of Manakoora
• On the Beach at Waikiki
• Blue Hawaii
• Bei mir bist Du schön
• Gershwin (medley)
• Rodgers and Hart (medley)

Yale Recordings, Volume 10: The Original Benny Goodman Quartet

• Dearest
• Together
• Who Cares
• September Song
• Just One of Those Things
• Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses
• Oh Gee! Oh Joy!
• Bernie's Tune
• East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
• Four Once More
• Liza
• But Not for Me
• Somebody Loves Me
• It's All Right With Me

The Benny Goodman Yale Archives - Vol.1

• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Macedonia Lullaby
• Soft Lights and Sweet Music
• Broadway
• Marching and Swinging
• Batunga Train
• Cherokee
• Slipped Disc
• Diga Diga Doo
• Lullaby in Rhythm
• Don't Blame Me
• Blue Room

Goodnight My Love

• Goodnight My Love
• Sometimes I'm Happy
• Goody Goody
• Christopher Columbus
• I Want to Be Happy
• Thanks for the Memory
• Don't Be the Way
• Goodbye
• These Foolish Things Remind Me of You
• Smoke Get in Your Eyes
• Amapola
• Perfidia
• Lazy River
• Corn Silk
• I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
• Yours
• Oh! Look at Me Now
• Tiger Rag
• Stompin' at the Savoy
• You're Dangerous

B.G. in Hi-Fi

• Let's Dance
• Airmail Special
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• Get Happy
• Slipped Disc
• Jersey Bounce
• When I Grow Too Old to Dream
• You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
• Blue Lou
• Jumpin' at the Woodside
• Stompin' at the Savoy
• Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today
• Rose Room
• What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
• Rock Rimmon
• You're a Sweetheart
• Somebody Stole My Gal
• (I Would Do) Anything for You
• Big John's Special
• Let's Dance

Born: 1909-05-30

Died: 1986-06-13