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Chicago
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 ( {{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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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 ( ; 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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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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Acker Bilk
Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk MBE (born 28 January 1929, Pensford, Somerset, England) is an English clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.
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Adolphe Sax
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (November 6, 1814 – February 4, 1894) was a Belgian musical instrument designer and musician who played the flute and clarinet, and is best known for having invented the saxophone.
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
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Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey, Jr. (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international touring. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is believed to be the best-known and most often seen modern dance performance.
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Alwin Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 in Southington, Connecticut – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer.
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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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Anton Stadler
Anton Stadler (28 June 1753, Bruck an der Leitha – 15 June 1812, Vienna) was an Austrian clarinet and basset horn player for whom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote both his Quintet for Clarinet and Strings and Clarinet Concerto.
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Antony Tudor
Antony Tudor (4 April 1908 – 19 April 1987) was an English ballet choreographer, teacher and dancer.
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Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include award-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.
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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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Artie Shaw
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He is also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
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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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Benedikt Eppelsheim
Benedikt Eppelsheim is a world-renowned German maker of high- and low-voiced saxophones, the soprillo (sopranissimo) and tubax (subcontrabass), which are available exclusively from him. He also makes bass saxophones, contrabass saxophones, and contrabass clarinets.
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Benny Goodman
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
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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
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Cary Grant
Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English-American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic, and charming.
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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
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Claude Debussy
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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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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.
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David Shifrin
David Shifrin (born January 2, 1950) is an American classical clarinetist.
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Debussy
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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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Eddie Sauter
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Elia Kazan
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Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist. He also played, on a few occasions the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s. He was also the first important bass clarinet soloist in jazz, and among the earliest significant flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to using an array of extended techniques to reproduce human- and animal-like effects which almost literally made his instruments speak. Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony.
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Ernani Bernardi
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Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (November 18, 1899–March 12, 1985) was a Hungarian-born conductor and violinist.
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Frank Sinatra
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Freddie Green
Frederick William "Freddie" Green (b. March 31, 1911 – d. March 1, 1987) was an American swing jazz guitarist. He was especially noted for his sophisticated rhythm guitar in big band settings, particularly for the Count Basie orchestra, where he was part of the "All-American Rhythm Section" with Basie on piano, Jo Jones on drums, and Walter Page on bass.
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Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe (June 10, 1901 February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on the long running Broadway musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot, with book and lyrics by Lerner, both of which were made into films.
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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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 Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theater producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than eight decades.
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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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George Burns
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
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Gian Carlo Menotti
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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
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Harry Belafonte
Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (originally Belafonete; born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso," a title which he was very reluctant to accept (according to the documentary Calypso Dreams) for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O." Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration. He also worked as an actor.
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Harry James
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Heinrich Baermann
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Heinrich Grenser
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Grenser (5 March 1764 – 12 December 1813) was a German musical instrument maker.
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Helen Oakley Dance
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Henry Lazarus
Henry Lazarus (January 1, 1815 - March 6, 1895) was the leading British clarinet virtuoso of the 19th century. George Bernard Shaw wrote of Henry Lazarus:
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Herb Caen
:For the hockey player, please see Herb Cain.
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Hindemith
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Hume Cronyn
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Igor Stravinsky
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Ingolf Dahl
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Isaac Stern
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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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Iwan Müller
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Jack Brymer
John (Jack) Alexander Brymer OBE (27 January 1915 – 15 September 2003), was a British clarinettist, born in South Shields.
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Jackie Robinson
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James Cagney
James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time.
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James Stewart
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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
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Jessica Tandy
Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress.
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Jimmy Mundy
Jimmy Mundy (28 June 1907–24 April 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Earl Hines.
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Jimmy Noone
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Joe Sullivan
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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
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John H. Hammond
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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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Karl Leister
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Katherine Dunham
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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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Lena Horne
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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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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Lillian Gish
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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.
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Louis Armstrong
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Lucille Ball
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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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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Martin Fröst
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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.
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Mary Martin
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Mel Powell
Mel Powell (February 12, 1923 - April 24, 1998) was a jazz pianist and composer of classical music.
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Merce Cunningham
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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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Milenko Stefanović
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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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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in fourteen films together, including several subsequent Thin Man films.
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Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein (January 13, 1904 (Old Style: December 31, 1903)December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.
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Nigger
Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people (generally people of Sub-Saharan African descent), and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. It is a common ethnic slur. The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective , meaning the color "black".
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Pee Wee Russell
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Peggy Lee
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. His combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. A popular television performer and recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records with record sales so high the label literally stopped counting at Como's behest. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world and his popularity seemingly had no geographical or language boundaries. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Composer Ervin Drake said of him,"... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally."
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. Ray was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm & blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.
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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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Roger L. Stevens
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Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991), was a Bohemian-born pianist.
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Sabine Meyer
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Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Simeon Bellison
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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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Stanley Drucker
Stanley Drucker (born 4 February 1929, Brooklyn, New York) is an American clarinetist. Of Ukrainian ancestry, he began clarinet studies at age ten with Leon Russianoff, and remained his student for five years. He attended the High School of Music & Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, at Lincoln Square). Drucker entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, but left Curtis after one year, recruited to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. After a year, he worked with the Busch Little Symphony, organized by Adolf Busch. He then became principal clarinetist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.
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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
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Victor Borge
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Virgil Thomson
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Walter Boeykens
Knight Walter Boeykens January 6, 1938 Bornem, Belgium is a Belgian conductor and a world renowned clarinetist. Boeykens has an impressive discography including several critically acclaimed performances that are testimony to his status as one of the most notable clarinetists of the 20th century. Walter Boeykens remains active and can still be heard in concert frequently all around the world.
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William Schuman
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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.
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Yehudi Menuhin
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Ziggy Elman
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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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Goodman, Benny Filmography
- To Russia with Jazz (2011)
- Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
- Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (2008)
- Quidam dégomme (2007)
- Benny Goodman: Legends in Concert - The Last Performance (2004)
- Benny Goodman: Legends in Concert - The Last Performance (2004)
- Fanfare for America: The Composer Aaron Copland (2001)
- The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV (2000)
- The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999)
- Benny Goodman's Greatest Hits (1997)
- The Ladies Sing the Blues (1989)
- The 28th Annual Grammy Awards (1986)
- Benny Goodman: Let's Dance - A Musical Tribute (1986)
- Åke Hasselgård story (1983)
- The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1982)
- Ça va plaire (1980)
- Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not (1978)
- Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
- Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals (1974)
- Timex All Star Swing Festival (1972)
- The World of Benny Goodman (1963)
- Carnegie Hall Salutes Jack Benny (1961)
- Swing Into Spring! (1959)
- Allen in Movieland (1955)
- Star Time (1950)
- A Song Is Born (1948)
- Make Mine Music (1946)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
- The Shining Future (1944)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
- Road to Victory (1944)
- The Powers Girl (1943)
- The Gang's All Here (1943)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943)
- Upbeat in Music (1943)
- Syncopation (1942)
- Birth of the Blues (1941)
- For Auld Lang Syne (1938)
- Hollywood Hotel (1937)
- The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936)
- Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra (1929)
- Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra (1929)
Benny, Goodman Filmography
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ALBUMS
- 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
- That's A Plenty
- Beatle Street Blues
- Riffin' The Scotch
- King Porter Stopm
- Body And Soul
- Madhouse
- Moon Glow
- Avalon
- St. Louis Blues
- Don't Be That Way
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Big John Special
- Flying Home
- Memories Of You
- Wholly Cats
- Clarinet À La King
- Swedish Pastry
- Stealin' Apples
- King Porter Stomp
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Goodbye
- Let's Dance / Big John Special
- St. Louis Blues
- Roll'em
- Don't Be That Way
- Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
- Superman
- Scarecrow
- Clarinet a La King
- I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean
- Six Flats Unfurnished
- All the Cats Join' In
- Rattle and Roll
- Lonely Moments
- Undercurrent Blues
- Jersey Bounce
- Let's Dance
- Bugle Call Rag
- King Porter Stomp (1992 remastered)
- Don't Be That Way (1987 remastered)
- When Buddha Smiles
- Sing, Sing, Sing (1987 remastered)
- Big John's Special
- Get Happy (1991 remastered)
- Superman
- Oh Baby
- Goody Goody (1987 remastered)
- There's a Small Hotel (feat. Helen Ward)
- You Turned the Tables on Me (feat. Helen Ward) (1991 remastered)
- Can't Teach My Old Heart New Tricks (feat. Martha Tilton)
- This Can't Be Love (feat. Martha Tilton)
- I Thought About You
- It Never Entered My Mind
- Taking a Chance on Love (rechanneled stereo version)
- Let's Do It (feat. Peggy Lee)
- How Long Has This Been Going On (feat. Peggy Lee)
- Let's Dance
- Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
- King Porter Stomp
- Who?
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
- Runnin' Wild
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Body and Soul
- Goody, Goody
- Christopher Columbus
- Whispering
- Down South Camp Meeting
- Sing Me a Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)
- Moonglow
- I Found a New Baby
- Always
- You Turned the Tables on Me
- Sing, Sing, Sin
- After You've Gone
- Blue Lou
- Wrappin' It Up
- 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
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- King Porter Stomp
- Body and Soul (take 1)
- Goodbye
- I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music
- Swingtime in the Rockies
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
- Moonglow (take 1)
- Bugle Call Rag
- Jam Session
- Goodnight My Love
- I Want to Be Happy
- Rosetta
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Roll 'em
- Life Goes to a Party (take 2)
- Lullaby in Rhythm
- Wrappin' It Up
- Bumble Bee Stomp
- And the Angels Sing (feat. Martha Tilton)
- Opus 3/4
- One O'Clock Jump
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Who's Sorry Now
- Japanese Sandman
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- You Turned the Tables on Me
- St. Louis Blues
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- Rosetta
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- To Each His Own
- Doin' What Comes Naturally
- You've Made Me So Very Happy
- Spinning Wheel
- Aquarius
- Monday, Monday
- From Both Sides Now
- I'll Never Fall in Love Again
- Romeo and Juliet (Love Theme)
- Let's Dance
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- One O'Clock Jump
- Peckin'
- St. Louis Blues
- Mission to Moscow
- King Porter Stomp
- Stardust
- Don't Be That Way
- A String of Pearls
- Jersey Bounce
- The Count
- Air Mail Special
- Bumble Bee Stomp
- Solo Flight
- Goodbye
- Roll 'em
- Clarinade
- Fiesta in Blue
- Scarecrow
- Chicago
- Six Flats Unfurnished
- Undercurrent Blues
- Amapola
- Basin Street Blues
- Bugle Call Rag
- Christopher Columbus
- Goodnight My Love
- Goody Goody
- He Aint Got Rythmn
- Japanese Sandman
- King Porter Stomp
- Lazy River
- Louise
- My Melancholy Baby
- One O'Clock Jump
- Sandman
- Sing Me a Swing Song
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Smoke House Rythmn
- St. Louis Blues
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Thanks for the Memory
- The Kingdom of Swing
- King Porter Stomp
- Taking A Chance On Love
- Christopher Columbus
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Why Don't You Do Right
- Idaho
- Jersey Bounce
- Darn That Dream
- Don't Be That Way
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- Smoke Dreams
- You Turned The Tables On Me
- Goody Goody
- Moonglow
- Mission To Moscow
- I Want To Be Happy
- Bugle Call
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Thanks For The Memory
- Goodnight My Love
- After You've Gone
- Body and Soul
- Who
- Someday Sweetheart
- China Boy
- More Than You Know
- All My Life
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Too Good to Be True
- Moonglow
- Dinah
- Exactly Like You
- Vibraphone Blues
- Sweet Sue, Just You
- My Melancholy Baby
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Whispering
- Tiger Rag
- Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider
- Tea for Two
- Runnin' Wild
- Avalon
- Handfull of Keys
- The Man I Love
- Air Mail Special
- Memories of You
- Limehouse Blues
- Avalon
- Don't Be That Way
- After You've Gone
- Runnin' Wild
- Body and Soul
- My Melancholy Baby
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Big John's Special
- Lullaby of the Leaves
- Blue Lou
- And the Angels Sing
- Stealin' Apples
- She's Funny That Way
- Tiger Rag
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Dream a Little Dream of Me
- On the Alamo
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Basin Street Blues
- I Want to Be Happy
- King Porter Stomp
- The Kingdom of Swing
- St. Louis Blues
- Good Goody
- Don't Be That Way
- Down South Camp Meeting
- Bugle Call Rag
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- One O'Clock Jump
- Topsy
- He Ain't Got Rhythm
- If I Could Be With You
- Thanks for the Memory
- 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
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V Disc: A Musical Contribution by America's Best for Our Armed Forces Overseas
Released 1998
Released 1998
- Perfidia
- The Earl
- Darktown Strutters Ball
- Poor Butterfly
- Who's Sorry Now
- Tiger Rag
- Liza
- China Boy
- As Long as I Live
- Benny's Bugle
- Oomph Fah Fah
- After You've Gone
- Bugle Call Rag
- Rattle and Roll
- King Porter Stomp
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- I Want to Be Loved
- Good Enough to Keep
- King Porter Stomp
- Bugle Call Rag
- Don't Be That Way
- China Boy
- Memories Of You
- Goody Goody
- One O'Clock Jump
- GoodbyeTraccia 8
- Shine
- And The Angels Sing
- Moonglow
- Seven Come Eleven
- Let's Dance
- King Porter Stomp
- If I Could Be With You
- Goody-Goody
- Christopher Columbus
- Swingtime In The Rockies
- Down South Camp Meeting
- I Want To Be Happy
- Chloe (Song Of The Swamp)
- Sing Sing Sing (Part 1)
- Sing Sing Sing (Part 2)
- Roll ´Em
- Changes
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Life Goes To A Party
- If Dreams Come True
- Don't Be That Way
- Big John's Special
- Louise
- Let's Dance
- Opus Local 802
- Time On My Hands
- Solo Flight
- Air Mail Special
- Clarinet A La King
- A String Of Pearls
- Let's Dance (Opening Theme)
- Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
- Why Don't You Do Right? (Get Me Some Money Too!)
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Undecided
- These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
- King Porter Stomp
- Don't Be That Way
- And the Angels Sing
- Moonglow
- Avalon
- Goodbye (Closing Theme)
- Don't Be That Way
- King Porter Stomp
- Goodbye
- Oh, Lady Bee Good!
- Moonglow
- Runnin' Wild
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Topsy
- Roll'em
- Dinah
- Exactly Like You
- Sweet Sue Just You
- Bugle Call Rag
- Goody Goody
- Body and Soul
- Tiger Rag
- Love Never Went to College
- Darn That Dream
- Faithful Forever
- The Fable of the Rose
- Shake Down the Stars
- Cocoanut Grove
- The Hour of Parting
- Who Cares
- Nostalgia
- The Man I Love
- Benny Rides Again
- These Things You Left Me
- Superman
- More Than You Know
- Time on My Hands
- Intermezzo
- Something New
- When the Sune Comes Out
- The Birth of the Blues
- Clarinet a La King
- Let's Give Love a Chance
- Tangerine
- Moonlight on the Ganges
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Everything I've Got
- Mission to Moscow
- Whispering
- Benny Rides Again
- All the Things You Are
- The Earl
- You Do Something to Me
- Oh, Baby
- It Could Happen to You
- Stereo Stomp
- Benny's Bop
- Mary's Idea (take 1)
- Mary's Idea (take 2)
- Mary's Idea (take 3)
- Bye Bye Blues Bop (take 1)
- Bye Bye Blues Bop (take 2)
- There's a Small Hotel (take 1)
- There's a Small Hotel (take 2)
- There's a Small Hotel (take 3)
- Blue Views
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- Cottontop
- You Took Advantage of Me
- (Where Oh) Where Has My Little Dog Gone
- Pepper (Patsy's Idea)
- Trees
- Jersey Bounce
- El Greco
- Lover Man
- King Porter Stomp
- A String of Pearls
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- Undercurrent Blues
- Madhouse
- You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes
- House Hop
- Sing Me a Swing Song
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Swingtime in the Rockies
- These Foolish Things
- House Hop
- There's a Small Hotel
- Bugle Call Rag
- Jam Session
- Did You Mean It?
- When You and I Were Young
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- He Ain't Got Rhythm
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- I'm Like a Fish Out of Water
- Sweet Stranger
- Margie
- Farewell Blues
- Roll 'em
- Camel Hop
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The Complete Capitol Small Group Recordings of Benny Goodman 1944-1955
Released 1993
Released 1993
- When You're Smiling
- All I Do Is Dream of You
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Keep Me in Mind
- Shirley Steps Out
- Give Me Those Good Old Days
- I'm in a Cryin' Mood
- High Fa-lutin'
- That's a Plenty
- Henderson Stomp
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Behave Yourself
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- The Record Ban Blues
- Stealin' Apples
- Bedlam
- There's a Small Hotel
- (In the Land Of) Oo-Bla-Dee
- Blue Lou
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Introduction/Let's Dance
- Ridin' High
- Moten Swing
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Vibraphone Blues
- The Sheik of Araby
- Peckin'
- Sunny Disposish
- Nagasaki
- Whispers in the Dark
- St. Louis Blues
- Life Goes to a Party
- Sugar Foot Stomp (feat. Harry James)
- Moonglow
- I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
- I Hadn't Anyone 'til You
- Bumble Bee Stomp
- Down South Camp Meetin'
- That Naughty Waltz
- Sweet Leilani
- Vieni, Vieni
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Roll 'em
- Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)
- King Porter Stomp
- Avalon
- Body and Soul
- Moonglow
- Bei mir bist Du schön
- Solo Flight
- Big John Special
- Goodnight My Love
- Just Like Taking Candy From a Baby
- Busy as a Bee
- Mission to Moscow
- Flying Home
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Caprice XXVI Paganini
- Rose Room
- If I Had You
- The Hour of Parting
- Closing Theme: Goodbye
- Blue Skies
- Dear Old Southland
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- King Porter Stomp
- Goodbye
- When Buddha Smiles
- Goody, Goody
- Get Happy
- Christopher Columbus
- I Know That You Know
- Stardust
- I've Found a New Baby
- Swingtime in the Rockies
- Somebody Loves Me
- Bugle Call Rag
- 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
- King Porter Stomp
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Somebody Stole My Gal
- All the Things You Are
- Goody Goody
- Moonglow
- Clarinet a La King
- You Do Something to Me
- Bugle Call Rag
- And the Angels Sing
- Oh Baby
- Bach Goes to Town
- Goodbye
- Rose of Washington Square
- After You've Gone
- Body and Soul
- Who?
- China Boy
- Oh Lady Be Good!
- Nobody's Sweetheart
- Moonglow
- Dinah
- Exactly Like You
- Sweet Sue - Just You
- Tiger Rag
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Whispering
- Tea for Two
- Runnin' Wild
- Avalon
- Sugar
- The Blues in My Flat
- Pick-A-Rib
- Shivers
- Rose Room (In Sunny Rose-Land)
- Boy Meets Goy
- On the Alamo
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Weber and Nielsen Clarinet Concertos - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Released 1986
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
- 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 Washington Square
- Don't Be That Way
- Alexander's Ragtime Band
- I've Found a New Baby
- Sugar Foot Stamp
- And the Angels Sing
- One O'Clock Jump
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love Baby
- Get Happy
- Clarinet a La King
- Swingtime in the Rockies
- Let's Dance
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- If I Had You
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads
- Stealin' Apples
- Don't Be That Way
- Willow Weep for Me
- Big John's Special
- Body and Soul
- A String of Pearls
- Mission to Moscow
- Benny Rides Again
- The Earl
- Oh Baby!
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Ev'rything I've Got
- Whispering
- All the Things You Are
- You Do Something to Me
- It Could Happen to You
- Stereo Stomp
- Let's Dance
- Down South Camp Meetin'
- King Porter Stomp
- It's Been So Long
- Roll 'Em
- Bugle Call Rag
- Dont't Be That Way
- You Turned The Tables On Me
- Goody Goody
- Slipped Disc
- Stompin' At The Savoy
- One O'Clock Jump
- King Porter Stomp
- Have You Met Miss Jones? (instrumental)
- Limehouse Blues (instrumental)
- Shine (instrumental)
- Always
- When Buddha Smiles
- Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
- Laughing at Life
- Running Wild (instrumental)
- You Turned the Tables on Me
- Darktown Strutter's Ball
- My Gal Sal (instrumental)
- Bugle Call Rag
- Mama, That Moon Is Here Again
- Clarinet Marmalade
- Time on My Hands
- Stardust
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
- Benny Sent Me
- Everybody Loves My Baby (instrumental)
- Moonlight on the Highway
- Josephine
- Killer Diller (instrumental)
- Someday Sweetheart
- Caravan
- Goodbye
- Don't Be That Way
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Goodbye
- Christopher Columbus
- One o'Clock Jump
- Goody Goody
- Bach Goes to Town
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Roll 'em
- King Porter Stomp
- Down South Camp Meeting
- Bugle Call Rag
- If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
- St. Louis Blues
- I Want To Be Happy
- The Kingdom of Swing
- Lonely Moments
- Whistle Blues
- Shirley Steps Out
- Stealin' Apples
- Undercurrent Blues
- Shishkabop
- The Huckle-Buck
- Bop Hop
- Trees
- Dreazag
- Badlam
- In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee
- Blue Lou
- Fiesta Time
- Egg Head
- Moonglow
- Body and Soul
- It's Been So Long
- I Know That You Know
- The Glory of Love
- Stardust
- These Foolish Things
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- You Turned the Tables on Me
- Love Me or Leave Me
- Goodnight My Love
- This Year's Kisses
- Don't Be That Way
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
- And the Angels Sing
- Darn That Dream
- How High the Moon
- There'll Be Some Changes Made
- Clarinet a La King
- Taking a Chance on Love
- Let's Dance
- Stompin' at the Savoy
- Memories of You
- What'd I Say
- One O'Clock Jump
- Blue Lou
- Moonglow
- Avalon
- Get Happy
- Goodbye
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Shine
- Air Mail Special
- Slipped Disc
- Gotta Be This or That
- Where or When
- I Want to Be Happy
- After You've Gonne
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
- Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
- Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)
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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)
- 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
- 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
- Clarinetitis
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- King Porter Stomp
- Madhouse
- When Budda Smiles
- Goody Goody
- Walk, Jennie, Walk
- More Than You Know
- Moonglow
- Tea for Two
- Sing Sing Sing, Part 1: And 2
- I'm a Ding Dong Daddy
- Don't Be That Way
- Ti-Pi-Tin
- And the Angels Sing
- Flying Home
- Darn That Dream
- AC-DC Current
- Gilly
- Air Mail Special
- Pound Ridge
- Clarinet a La King
- Don't Be That Way
- Clarinet a La King
- The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
- Rose Room
- Bluebirds in the Moonlight
- Rachel's Dream
- Memories of You
- Let's Dance
- After You've Gone
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Drop Me Off in Harlem
- Sophisticated Lady
- Azure
- Caravan
- Dusk in the Desert
- Solitude
- Diminuendo in Blue
- Crescendo in Blue
- Mood Indigo
- Do Nothing 'til You Hear From Me
- Creole Love Call
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Deed I Do
- That's a Plenty
- Ballin' the Jack
- Here Comes Emily Brown
- Peg O' My Heart
- Basin Street Blues
- After You've Gone
- Ain't-cha Glad?
- Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me
- Music Hall Rag
- At the Darktown Strutters Ball
- King Porter Stomp
- Miss Brown to You
- Body and Soul
- Goody Goody
- I've Found a New Baby
- There's a Small Hotel
- Moonglow
- Vibraphone Blues
- Sugar Foot Stomp
- Where or When
- Please Be Kind
- 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
- You're Dangerous
- Yours
- Oh! Look at Me Now
- Tiger Rag
- Stompin' at the Savoy
Born: 1909-05-30
Died: 1986-06-13
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"SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN
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- Duration: 5:23
- Published: 03 Sep 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Writen by Louis Prima in 1935, This is not much of a song from WW2 but it is one of the most famous songs from the Big Band era
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Benny Goodman Orchestra Sing Sing Sing from Hollywood Hotel
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- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 30 Jan 2006
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Benny Goodman Orchestra "Sing, Sing, Sing" featuring Gene Krupa-Drums, Harry James-Trumpet from "Hollywood Hotel" film (1937)
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Benny Goodman Quartet - Moonglow
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- Duration: 6:18
- Published: 18 Jan 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Benny Goodman, clarinet; Lionel Hampton, vibes; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, drums. With George Duvivier on bass. Hey, that Lionel Hampton's gotta be the King of Swing!
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Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 10 Jul 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Artist: Peggy Lee Song: Why Don't You Do Right Album: Moments Like This Lyrics: You had plenty money, 1922 You let other women make a fool of you Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too You're sittin' there and wonderin' what it's all about You ain't got no money, they will put you out Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too If you had prepared twenty years ago You wouldn't be a-wanderin' from door to door Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too
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Stompin' At The Savoy (Benny Goodman Montage)
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- Duration: 3:18
- Published: 15 Dec 2007
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
A group of pics of Goodman and his Big Band.
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The Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)
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- Duration: 6:16
- Published: 25 Dec 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
'Sing, Sing, Sing' - Benny Goodman
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- Duration: 8:43
- Published: 16 Aug 2008
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
swing = the original punk
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Benny Goodman Quintet Live
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- Duration: 1:56
- Published: 30 Jul 2006
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
This is a performance of the Benny Goodman Quintet, featuring Benny Goodman himself, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton. I think that's all that needs to be said.
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Memories of you - Benny Goodman 1980
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- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 01 Aug 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
"Aurex Jazz Festival", Sep.3,1980 at Budokan(Tokyo,Japan) cl:Benny Goodman p:Teddy Wilson g:Eddie Duran b:Al Obidenski dr:John Markham I synchronized sound files which digitized from LP record/cassette tape except for Bewitched and Goodbye. You can watch with stereo sound. Just add "&fmt=18" at the end of URL. Like jp.youtube.com .
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King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 06 Mar 2009
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
King Porter Stomp - Benny Goodman
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"ROLL EM" BY BENNY GOODMAN
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 13 Oct 2008
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Recorded 1937
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Benny Goodman Trio (China Boy and Sheik of Araby)
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- Duration: 4:30
- Published: 20 Dec 2006
- Updated: 25 Sep 2012
lotpatrol.com Benny Goodman Trio with Gene Krupa plays China Boy and The Sheik of Araby. Download and convert youtube videos to audio or other video formats lotpatrol.com
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Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall 1938
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- Duration: 10:10
- Published: 11 Feb 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
This is a digitally remastered recording of Benny Good Man Live at Carnegie Hall. Sorry about it cuttting off at the end but the song is over 12 mins long and you tube only allows a 10 min video.
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Benny Goodman & Lionel Hampton Stealin Apples
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- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 05 Mar 2007
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Scene from 'A Song is Born' Novice Professor is BG
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Benny goodman Orchestra-Stardust
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 13 Apr 2008
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Non ho potuto resistere all'aggiungere questa versione di Stardust.Famoso standard del jazz pre-bebop,qui magnificamente eseguita dall'orchestra di Benny Goodman...non so l'anno purtroppo..
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ROSE ROOM (1939) by the Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian on guitar
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- Duration: 3:02
- Published: 11 Nov 2009
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Rose Room was one of the first studio tunes recorded 2 October 1939 by guitarist Charlie Christian after he joined the Benny Goodman Sextet. I love this and other Goodman small group tracks as they are a good introduction to jazz and swing. They are popular circa forties' era tunes, with members taking melodic solos that can be appreciated against the chord changes. These tracks initially helped me 'get' jazz, rather than being scared off by some of the less user friendly forms of it. This song was also important in helping Charlie join Goodman's group. The story goes that Charlie sat in unannounced with Goodman's group at a live performance at the Victor Hugo restaurant in Los Angeles on 16 August 1939, at the instigation of producer John Hammond, who had been hearing about Charlie's electric guitar work in Oklahoma City. (Apparently Goodman had not shown much interest in Charlie when he had auditioned briefly on acoustic guitar at a recording session earlier that day). According to Wikipedia, 'displeased at the surprise, Goodman called "Rose Room", a tune he assumed that Christian would be unfamiliar with. Unknown to Goodman, Charles had been reared on the tune, and he came in with his solo — which was to be the first of about twenty, all of them different, all unlike anything Goodman had heard before. That version of "Rose Room" lasted forty minutes; by its end, Christian was in the band. In the course of a few days, Christian went from making $2.50 a night to making <b>...</b>
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Benny Goodman Quartet 1967 - w/Gene Krupa
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- Duration: 4:45
- Published: 10 Aug 2009
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
enjoy this great piece of performance with gene krupa
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Oh, Lady Be Good - Benny Goodman 1980
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- Duration: 2:35
- Published: 26 Jul 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
"Aurex Jazz Festival", Sep.3,1980 at Budokan(Tokyo,Japan) cl:Benny Goodman p:Teddy Wilson g:Eddie Duran b:Al Obidenski dr:John Markham I synchronized sound files which digitized from LP record/cassette tape except for Bewitched and Goodbye. You can watch with stereo sound. Just add "&fmt=18" at the end of URL. Like jp.youtube.com .
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Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
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- Duration: 5:06
- Published: 06 Mar 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
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Benny Goodman-Goodbye
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- Duration: 3:26
- Published: 17 Oct 2009
- Updated: 23 Sep 2012
Goodbye was written in 1939 by Gordon Jenkins.
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Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Lionel Hampton
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- Duration: 5:22
- Published: 17 Jul 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
Sing, Sing, Sing the way it should be played.
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Copland Clarinet Concerto Benny Goodman Part 1
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- Duration: 9:04
- Published: 30 Oct 2009
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
What a nice piece-- A. Copland, Conductor LAPO
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Body and Soul - Benny Goodman 1980
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- Duration: 2:49
- Published: 24 Jul 2008
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
"Aurex Jazz Festival", Sep.3,1980 at Budokan(Tokyo,Japan) cl:Benny Goodman p:Teddy Wilson g:Eddie Duran b:Al Obidenski dr:John Markham I synchronized sound files which digitized from LP record/cassette tape except for Bewitched and Goodbye. You can watch with stereo sound. Just add "&fmt=18" at the end of URL. Like jp.youtube.com .
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| Benny Goodman | |
|---|---|
 from the film Stage Door Canteen (1943) |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Benjamin David Goodman |
| Also known as | "King of Swing", "The Professor", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "Swing's Senior Statesman" |
| Born | (1909-05-30)May 30, 1909 |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 1986(1986-06-13) (aged 77) |
| Genres | Swing, big band |
| Occupations | Musician, bandleader, songwriter |
| Instruments | Clarinet |
| Years active | 1926–1986 |
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman[1] (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".
In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."[2]
Goodman's bands launched the careers of many major names in jazz, and during an era of segregation, he also led one of the first well-known racially-integrated jazz groups. Goodman continued to perform to nearly the end of his life, including exploring his interest in classical music.
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Childhood and early years[link]
Goodman was born in Chicago, the ninth of twelve children of poor Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire,[1] who lived in the Maxwell Street neighborhood. His father was David Goodman, a tailor from Warsaw; his mother was Dora Grisinsky[1] (from Kaunas, Lithuania). His parents met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Benny was born.[3]
When Benny was 10, his father enrolled him and two of his older brothers in music lessons at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue. The next year he joined the boys club band at Jane Addams' Hull House, where he received lessons from director James Sylvester. He also received two years of instruction from the classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp.[4] His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists working in Chicago, notably Johnny Dodds, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Noone.[3] Goodman learned quickly, becoming a strong player at an early age: he was soon playing professionally in various bands.
Goodman attended Lewis Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high school sophomore, while also playing the clarinet in a dance hall band. (He was awarded an honorary LL.D. from IIT in 1968.) When Goodman was 16, he joined one of Chicago's top bands, the Ben Pollack Orchestra, with which he made his first recordings in 1926.[3]
He made his first record on Vocalion under his own name two years later. Goodman recorded with the regular Pollack band and smaller groups drawn from the orchestra through 1929. The side sessions produced scores of sides recorded for the various dimestore record labels under an array of group names, including Mills' Musical Clowns, Goody's Good Timers, The Hotsy Totsy Gang, Jimmy Backen's Toe Ticklers, Dixie Daisies, and Kentucky Grasshoppers.
Goodman's father, David, was a working-class immigrant about whom Benny said (interview, Downbeat, February 8, 1956); "...Pop worked in the stockyards, shoveling lard in its unrefined state. He had those boots, and he'd come home at the end of the day exhausted, stinking to high heaven, and when he walked in it made me sick. I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand the idea of Pop every day standing in that stuff, shoveling it around".
On December 9, 1926, David Goodman was killed in a traffic accident. Benny had recently joined the Pollack band and was urging his father to retire, since he and his brother (Harry) were now doing well as professional musicians. According to James Lincoln Collier, "Pop looked Benny in the eye and said, 'Benny, you take care of yourself, I'll take care of myself.'" Collier continues: "It was an unhappy choice. Not long afterwards, as he was stepping down from a streetcar—according to one story—he was struck by a car. He never regained consciousness and died in the hospital the next day. It was a bitter blow to the family, and it haunted Benny to the end that his father had not lived to see the success he, and some of the others, made of themselves."[5] "Benny described his father's death as 'the saddest thing that ever happened in our family.'"[6]
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Goodman left for New York City and became a successful session musician during the late 1920s and early 1930s (mostly with Ben Pollack's band between 1926 and 1929). A notable March 21, 1928 Victor session found Goodman alongside Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra, directed by Nat Shilkret.[7][8][9] He played with the nationally known bands of Ben Selvin, Red Nichols, Isham Jones (although he is not on any of Jones's records), and Ted Lewis. He recorded sides for Brunswick under the name Bennie Goodman's Boys, a band that featured Glenn Miller. In 1928, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller wrote the instrumental "Room 1411", which was released as a Brunswick 78.[10] He also recorded musical soundtracks for movie shorts; fans believe that Benny Goodman's clarinet can be heard on the soundtrack of One A. M., a Charlie Chaplin comedy re-released to theaters in 1934.
During this period as a successful session musician, John Hammond arranged for a series of jazz sides recorded for and issued on Columbia starting in 1933 and continuing until his signing with Victor in 1935, during his success on radio. There were also a number of commercial studio sides recorded for Melotone Records between late 1930 and mid-1931 under Goodman's name. The all-star Columbia sides featured Jack Teagarden, Joe Sullivan, Dick McDonough, Arthur Schutt, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Coleman Hawkins (for 1 session), and vocalists Jack Teagarden and Mildred Bailey, and the first two recorded vocals by a young Billie Holiday.
In 1934 Goodman auditioned for NBC's Let's Dance, a well-regarded three-hour weekly radio program that featured various styles of dance music. His familiar theme song by that title was based on Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber. Since he needed new arrangements every week for the show, his agent, John Hammond, suggested that he purchase "hot" (swing) arrangements from Fletcher Henderson, an African-American musician from Atlanta who had New York's most popular African-American band in the 1920s and early 1930s.[3]
Goodman, a wise businessman, helped Henderson in 1929 when the stock market crashed. He purchased all of Henderson's song books, and hired Henderson's band members to teach his musicians how to play the music.[11]
In early 1935, Goodman and his band were one of three bands (the others were Xavier Cugat and "Kel Murray" [r.n. Murray Kellner]) featured on Let's Dance where they played arrangements by Henderson along with hits such as "Get Happy" and "Jingle Bells" from composer and arranger Spud Murphy.[12] Goodman's portion of the program from New York, at 12:30 a.m. Eastern Time, aired too late to attract a large East Coast audience. However, unknown to him, the time slot gave him an avid following on the West Coast (they heard him at 9:30 p.m. Pacific Time). He and his band remained on Let's Dance until May of that year when a strike by employees of the series' sponsor, Nabisco, forced the cancellation of the radio show. An engagement was booked at Manhattan's Roosevelt Grill (filling in for Guy Lombardo), but the crowd there expected 'sweet' music and Goodman's band was unsuccessful.[13] The band set out on a tour of America in May 1935, but was still poorly received. By August 1935, Goodman found himself with a band that was nearly broke, disillusioned and ready to quit.
Catalyst for the Swing era[link]
In July 1935, a record of the Goodman band playing the Henderson arrangements of "King Porter Stomp" backed with "Sometimes I'm Happy", Victor 78 25090, had been released to ecstatic reviews in both Down Beat and Melody Maker.[14] In Pittsburgh at the Stanley Theater some of the kids danced in the aisles.[15] This had made little impact on the band's tour until August 19 when they arrived in Oakland to play at McFadden's Ballroom.[16] There, Goodman and his artists Gene Krupa, Bunny Berigan, and Helen Ward found a large crowd of young dancers, raving and cheering the hot music they had heard on the Let's Dance radio show.[17] Herb Caen wrote that "from the first note, the place was in an uproar."[18] One night later, at Pismo Beach, the show was another flop, and the band thought the overwhelming reception in Oakland had been a fluke.[13]
The next night, August 21, 1935 at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, Goodman and his band began a three-week engagement. On top of the Let's Dance airplay, Al Jarvis had been playing Goodman records on KFWB radio, and Los Angeles fans were primed to hear him in person.[19] Goodman started the evening with stock arrangements, but after an indifferent response, began the second set with the arrangements by Fletcher Henderson and Spud Murphy. According to Willard Alexander, the band's booking agent, Krupa said "If we're gonna die, Benny, let's die playing our own thing."[20] The crowd broke into cheers and applause. News reports spread word of the enthusiastic dancing and exciting new music that was happening. Over the course of the engagement, the "Jitterbug" began to appear as a new dance craze,[21] and radio broadcasts carried the band's performances across the nation.[13]
The Palomar engagement was such a marked success it is often exaggeratedly described as the beginning of the swing era.[13] Donald Clarke wrote "It is clear in retrospect that the Swing Era had been waiting to happen, but it was Goodman and his band that touched it off."[13]
In November 1935 Goodman accepted an invitation to play in Chicago at the Joseph Urban Room at the Congress Hotel. His stay there extended to six months and his popularity was cemented by nationwide radio broadcasts over NBC affiliate stations. While in Chicago, the band recorded If I Could Be With You, Stompin' At The Savoy, and Goody, Goody.[13] Goodman also played three special concerts produced by jazz aficionado and Chicago socialite Helen Oakley. These "Rhythm Club" concerts at the Congress Hotel included sets in which Goodman and Krupa sat in with Fletcher Henderson's band, perhaps the first racially integrated big band appearance before a paying audience in the United States.[13] Goodman and Krupa played in a trio with Teddy Wilson on piano. Both combinations were well-received, and Wilson stayed on.
In his 1935–1936 radio broadcasts from Chicago, Goodman was introduced as the "Rajah of Rhythm."[20] Slingerland Drum Company had been calling Krupa the "King of Swing" as part of a sales campaign, but shortly after Goodman and crew left Chicago in May 1936 to spend the summer filming The Big Broadcast of 1937 in Hollywood, the title "King of Swing" was applied to Goodman by the media.[13] Goodman left record company RCA for Columbia, following his agent and soon to be brother-in-law John Hammond.
At the end of June 1936, Goodman went to Hollywood, where, on June 30, 1936 his band began CBS's "Camel Caravan," its third, and, according to Connor and Hicks, its greatest of them all, sponsored radio show, co-starring Goodman and his old boss Nat Shilkret.[7][8] By spring, 1936, bandleader Fletcher Henderson was writing arrangements for Goodman's band. He would disband his own group in 1939 and become a full-time arranger for Goodman. Other noteworthy arrangers in the Goodman band were Jimmy Mundy, 1935 to 1939 (overlapping with Henderson) and Eddie Sauter, the 1940s.
Carnegie Hall concert[link]
| “ | In bringing jazz to Carnegie, [Benny Goodman was], in effect, smuggling American contraband into the halls of European high culture, and Goodman and his 15 men pull[ed] it off with the audacity and precision of Ocean's Eleven. | ” |
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In late 1937, Goodman's publicist Wynn Nathanson attempted a publicity stunt by suggesting Goodman and his band should play Carnegie Hall in New York City. If this concert were to take place, then Benny Goodman would be the first jazz bandleader to perform at Carnegie Hall. "Benny Goodman was initially hesitant about the concert, fearing for the worst; however, when his film Hollywood Hotel opened to rave reviews and giant lines, he threw himself into the work. He gave up several dates and insisted on holding rehearsals inside Carnegie Hall to familiarize the band with the lively acoustics."[23]
The concert was the evening of January 16, 1938. It sold out weeks before, with the capacity 2,760 seats going for the top price of US$2.75 a seat, for the time a very high price.[23] The concert began with three contemporary numbers from the Goodman band—"Don't Be That Way," "Sometimes I'm Happy," and "One O'Clock Jump." They then played a history of jazz, starting with a Dixieland quartet performing "Sensation Rag." Once again, initial crowd reaction, though polite, was tepid. Then came a jam session on "Honeysuckle Rose" featuring members of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands as guests. (The surprise of the session: Goodman handing a solo to Basie's guitarist Freddie Green who was never a featured soloist but earned his reputation as the best rhythm guitarist in the genre—he responded with a striking round of chord improvisations.) As the concert went on, things livened up. The Goodman band and quartet took over the stage and performed the numbers that had already made them famous. Some later trio and quartet numbers were well-received, and a vocal on "Loch Lomond" by Martha Tilton provoked five curtain calls and cries for an encore. The encore forced Goodman to make his only audience announcement for the night, stating that they had no encore prepared but that Martha would return shortly with another number.[24]
By the time the band got to the climactic piece "Sing, Sing, Sing", success was assured. This performance featured playing by tenor saxophonist Babe Russin, trumpeter Harry James, and Benny Goodman, backed by drummer Gene Krupa. When Goodman finished his solo, he unexpectedly gave a solo to pianist Jess Stacy. "At the Carnegie Hall concert, after the usual theatrics, Jess Stacy was allowed to solo and, given the venue, what followed was appropriate," wrote David Rickert. "Used to just playing rhythm on the tune, he was unprepared for a turn in the spotlight, but what came out of his fingers was a graceful, impressionistic marvel with classical flourishes, yet still managed to swing. It was the best thing he ever did, and it's ironic that such a layered, nuanced performance came at the end of such a chaotic, bombastic tune."[25]
This concert has been regarded as one of the most significant in jazz history. After years of work by musicians from all over the country, jazz had finally been accepted by mainstream audiences. Recordings were made of this concert, but even by the technology of the day the equipment used was not of the finest quality. Acetate recordings of the concert were made, and aluminum studio masters were also cut.[23]
| “ | The recording was produced by Albert Marx as a special gift for his wife, Helen Ward and a second set for Benny. He contracted Artists Recording Studio to make 2 sets. Artists Recording only had 2 turntables so they farmed out the second set to Raymond Scott's recording studio.
[...] It was Benny's sister-in-law who found the recordings in Benny's apartment [in 1950] and brought them to Benny's attention. |
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Goodman took the newly discovered recording to his record company, Columbia, and a selection was issued on LP. These recordings have not been out of print since they were first issued. In early 1998, the aluminum masters were rediscovered and a new CD set of the concert was released based on these masters. The album released based on those masters went on to be one of the best selling live jazz albums of all time.[citation needed]
Charlie Christian[link]
Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams[27] was a good friend of both Columbia records producer John Hammond and Benny Goodman. She first suggested to John Hammond that he see Charlie Christian.[28]
Charlie Christian was playing at the Ritz in Oklahoma City where [...] John Hammond heard him in 1939. Hammond recommended him to Benny Goodman, but the band leader wasn't interested. The idea of an electrified guitar didn't appeal, and Goodman didn't care for Christian's flashy style of dressing. Reportedly, Hammond personally installed Christian onstage during a break in a Goodman concert in Beverly Hills. Irritated to see Christian among the band, Goodman struck up "Rose Room", not expecting the guitarist to know the tune. What followed amazed everyone who heard the 45-minute performance.[29]
Charlie was a hit on the electric guitar and remained in the Benny Goodman Sextet for two years (1939–1941). He wrote many of the group's head arrangements (some of which Goodman took credit for) and was an inspiration to all. The sextet made him famous and provided him with a steady income while Charlie worked on legitimizing, popularizing, revolutionizing, and standardizing the electric guitar as a jazz instrument.[30]
Charlie Christian's recordings and rehearsal dubs made with Benny Goodman in the early forties are widely known and were released by Columbia.
Beyond swing[link]
Goodman continued his meteoric rise throughout the late 1930s with his big band, his trio and quartet, and a sextet. By the mid-1940s, however, big bands lost a lot of their popularity. In 1941, ASCAP had a licensing war with music publishers. In 1942 to 1944 and 1948, the musician's union went on strike against the major record labels in the United States, and singers took the spot in popularity that the big bands once enjoyed. During this strike, the United States War Department approached the union and requested the production of the V-Disc, a set of records containing new and fresh music for soldiers to listen to.[31] Also, by the late 1940s, swing was no longer the dominant mode of jazz musicians.[32]
Bebop, Cool Jazz[link]
By the 1940s, jazz musicians were borrowing advanced ideas from classical music. The recordings Goodman made in bop style for Capitol Records were highly praised by jazz critics. When Goodman was starting a bebop band, he hired Buddy Greco, Zoot Sims, Wardell Gray and a few other modern players.[33]
| “ | Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams had been a favorite of Benny's since she first appeared on the national scene in 1936 [...]. [A]s Goodman warily approached the music of [Charlie] Parker and [Dizzy] Gillespie, he turned to Williams for musical guidance. [...] Pianist Mel Powell was the first to introduce the new music to Benny in 1945, and kept him abreast to what was happening around 52nd Street. | ” |
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Goodman enjoyed the bebop and cool jazz that was beginning to arrive in the 1940s. When Goodman heard Thelonious Monk, a celebrated pianist and accompanist to bop players Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke, he remarked, "I like it, I like that very much. I like the piece and I like the way he played it. [...] I think he's got a sense of humor and he's got some good things there."[33]
| “ | Benny had heard this Swedish clarinet player named Stan Hasselgard playing bebop, and he loved it ... So he started a bebop band. But after a year and a half, he became frustrated. He eventually reformed his band and went back to playing Fletcher Henderson arrangements. Benny was a swing player and decided to concentrate on what he does best. | ” |
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By 1953, Goodman completely changed his mind about bebop. "Maybe bop has done more to set music back for years than anything [...] Basically it's all wrong. It's not even knowing the scales. [...] Bop was mostly publicity and people figuring angles."[35]
Forays into classical repertoire[link]
Goodman's first classical recording dates from April 25, 1938 when he recorded Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, with the Budapest Quartet. After his bop period, Goodman furthered his interest in classical music written for the clarinet, and frequently met with top classical clarinetists of the day. In 1946, he met Ingolf Dahl, an emigre classical composer on the faculty of the University of Southern California, who was then musical director of the Victor Borge show. They played chamber music together (Brahms, Milhaud, Hindemith, Debussy) and in 1948 Goodman played in the world premiere performance of Dahl's Concerto a Tre.[36]
In 1949, when he was 40, Goodman decided to study with Reginald Kell, one of the world's leading classical clarinetists. To do so, he had to change his entire technique: instead of holding the mouthpiece between his front teeth and lower lip, as he had done since he first took a clarinet in hand 30 years earlier, Goodman learned to adjust his embouchure to the use of both lips and even to use new fingering techniques. He had his old finger calluses removed and started to learn how to play his clarinet again—almost from scratch.[37]
Goodman commissioned and premiered works by leading composers for clarinet and symphony orchestra that are now part of the standard repertoire, namely Contrasts by Béla Bartók, Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 115 by Malcolm Arnold, Derivations for Clarinet and Band by Morton Gould, and Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. While Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs was commissioned for Woody Herman's big band, it was premiered by Goodman. Woody Herman was the dedicatee (1945) and first performer (1946) of Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto, but many years later Stravinsky made another recording, this time with Benny Goodman as the soloist.[38]
He made a further recording of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, in July 1956 with the Boston Symphony String Quartet, at the Berkshire Festival; on the same occasion he also recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Charles Munch. He also recorded the clarinet concertos of Weber and Carl Nielsen.[3]
Other recordings of classical repertoire by Goodman are:[39]
- Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet by Claude Debussy
- Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat by Johannes Brahms
- Rondo from Grand Duo Concertant in E flat by Weber, and
- An arrangement by Simeon Bellison of Beethoven's Variations on a theme from Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
Touring with Armstrong[link]
After forays outside of swing, Goodman started a new band in 1953. According to Donald Clarke, this was not a happy time for Goodman.
| “ | In 1953 Goodman re-formed his classic band for an expensive tour with Louis Armstrong’s All Stars that turned into a famous disaster. He managed to insult Armstrong at the beginning; then he was appalled at the vaudeville aspects of Louis’s act [...] a contradiction of everything Goodman stood for. | ” |
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Movies[link]
Benny Goodman's band appeared as a specialty act in major musical features, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Hollywood Hotel (1938), Syncopation (1942), The Powers Girl (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Gang's All Here (1943), Sweet and Lowdown (1944) and A Song Is Born (1948). Goodman's only starring feature was Sweet and Lowdown (1944).
Goodman's success story was told in the 1955 motion picture The Benny Goodman Story[41] with Steve Allen and Donna Reed. A Universal-International production, it was a follow up to 1954's successful The Glenn Miller Story. The screenplay was heavily fictionalized, but the music was the real draw. Many of Goodman's professional colleagues appear in the film, including Ben Pollack, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and Harry James.
Personality and influence[link]
Goodman was regarded by some as a demanding taskmaster, by others an arrogant and eccentric martinet. Many musicians spoke of "The Ray",[42] Goodman's trademark glare that he bestowed on a musician who failed to perform to his demanding standards. Guitarist Allan Reuss incurred the maestro's displeasure on one occasion, and Goodman relegated him to the rear of the bandstand, where his contribution would be totally drowned out by the other musicians. Vocalists Anita O'Day and Helen Forrest spoke bitterly of their experiences singing with Goodman.[43] "The twenty or so months I spent with Benny felt like twenty years," said Forrest. "When I look back, they seem like a life sentence." At the same time, there are reports that he privately funded several college educations and was sometimes very generous, though always secretly. When a friend once asked him why, he reportedly said, "Well, if they knew about it, everyone would come to me with their hand out."[44]
| "As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days—and they were hard days, in 1937—made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields." |
| —Lionel Hampton on Benny Goodman[45] |
Goodman is also responsible for a significant step in racial integration in America. In the early 1930s, black and white jazz musicians could not play together in most clubs or concerts. In the Southern states, racial segregation was enforced by the Jim Crow laws. Benny Goodman broke with tradition by hiring Teddy Wilson to play with him and drummer Gene Krupa in the Benny Goodman Trio. In 1936, he added Lionel Hampton on vibes to form the Benny Goodman Quartet; in 1939 he added pioneering jazz guitarist Charlie Christian to his band and small ensembles, who played with him until his death from tuberculosis less than three years later. This integration in music happened ten years before Jackie Robinson became the first black American to enter Major League Baseball. "[Goodman's] popularity was such that he could remain financially viable without touring the South, where he would have been subject to arrest for violating Jim Crow laws."[46] According to Jazz by Ken Burns, when someone asked him why he "played with that nigger" (referring to Teddy Wilson), Goodman replied, "I'll knock you out if you use that word around me again".
John Hammond and Alice Goodman[link]
One of Benny Goodman's closest friends off and on, from the 1930s onward was celebrated Columbia records producer John H. Hammond, who influenced Goodman's move from RCA to the newly created Columbia records in 1939.[3]
Benny Goodman dated John H. Hammond's sister Alice Frances Hammond (1913–1978) for three months. She had previously been married to British politician George Duckworth, from whom she obtained a divorce. She and Goodman married on March 14, 1942. They had two daughters, Benjie and Rachel.[3]
Both daughters studied music, though neither became the musical prodigy Goodman was.
Hammond had encouraged Goodman to integrate his band, persuading him to employ pianist Teddy Wilson. But Hammond's tendency to interfere in the musical affairs of Goodman's and other bands led to Goodman pulling away from him. In 1953 they had another falling-out during Goodman's ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong, which was produced by John Hammond.[3]
Goodman appeared on a 1975 PBS salute to Hammond but remained at a distance. In the 1980s, following the death of Alice Goodman, John Hammond and Benny Goodman, both by then elderly, reconciled. On June 25, 1985, Goodman appeared at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City for "A Tribute to John Hammond".[47]
Later years[link]
After winning numerous polls over the years as best jazz clarinetist, Goodman was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1957.
Goodman continued to play on records and in small groups. One exception to this pattern was a collaboration with George Benson in the 1970s. The two met when they taped a PBS salute to John Hammond and re-created some of the famous Goodman-Charlie Christian duets.[3]
Benson later appeared on several tracks of a Goodman album released as "Seven Come Eleven." In general Goodman continued to play in the swing style he was most known for. He did, however, practice and perform classical clarinet pieces and commissioned compositions for clarinet. Periodically he would organize a new band and play a jazz festival or go on an international tour.
Despite increasing health problems, he continued to play until his death from a heart attack in New York City in 1986 at the age of 77, in his home at Manhattan House, 200 East 66th Street. A longtime resident of Pound Ridge, New York, Benny Goodman is interred in the Long Ridge Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut. The same year, Goodman was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.[48] Benny Goodman's musical papers were donated to Yale University after his death.[4]
He is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in the radio division.[49]
His music was featured in the 2010 documentary Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.[50][51][52]
Discography[link]
(This discography combines LP and CD reissues of Goodman recordings under the dates of the original 78 rpm recordings through about 1950)
- A Jazz Holiday (1928, Decca)
- Benny Goodman and the Giants of Swing (1929, Prestige)
- BG and Big Tea in NYC (1929, GRP)
- Swinging 34 Vols. 1 & 2 (1934, Melodean)
- Sing, Sing, Sing (1935, Bluebird)
- The Birth of Swing (1935, Bluebird)
- Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet Sessions, Vol. 1: After You've Gone (1935, Bluebird)
- Stomping at the Savoy (1935, Bluebird)
- Air Play (1936, Doctor Jazz)
- Roll 'Em, Vol. 1 (1937, Columbia)
- Roll 'Em, Vol. 2 (1937, CBS)
- From Spirituals to Swing (1938, Vanguard)
- The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Vols. 1, 2, & 3 (Live) (1938, Columbia)
- Mozart Clarinet Quintet (with Budapest String Quartet) (1938, Victor)
- Ciribiribin (Live) (1939, Giants of Jazz)
- Swingin' Down the Lane (Live) (1939, Giants of Jazz)
- Featuring Charlie Christian (1939, Columbia)
- Eddie Sauter Arrangements (1940, Columbia)
- Swing Into Spring (1941, Columbia)
- Undercurrent Blues (1947, Blue Note)
- Swedish Pastry (1948, Dragon)
- The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (1950, Columbia)
- Sextet (1950, Columbia)
- BG in Hi-fi (1954, Capitol)
- The Benny Goodman Story Volume 1 (1955?, Decca)
- Mozart Clarinet concerto (with Boston symphomy) (1956)
- The Great Benny Goodman (1956, Columbia)
- Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman (1957, Harmony)
- Benny in Brussels Vols. 1 & 2 (1958, Columbia)
- In Stockholm 1959 (1959, Phontastic)
- The Benny Goodman Treasure Chest (1959, MGM)
- Texaco's Swing into Spring 59 (1959, Cunningham & Walsh, Inc.)
- Swing With Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (1960s?, Columbia/Harmony)
- Benny Goodman in Moscow (1962, RCA Victor)
- Benny Goodman Today (London Records of (1970) Canada Ltd.)
- Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (1977)
- Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall; 40th Anniversary Concert (1978)
- Live! Benny Let's Dance (1986)
- The King Swings Star Line
- Pure Gold (1992)
- 1935–1938 (1998)
- Portrait of Benny Goodman (Portrait Series) (1998)
- Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert '38 (1998)
- Bill Dodge All-star Recording (1999)
- 1941–1955 His Orchestra and His (1999)
- Live at Carnegie Hall (1999)
- Carnegie Hall: The Complete Concert (2006) Remastered again
Noted sidemen[link]
- Noni Bernardi (1911–2006), big-band musician and member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council, 1961–93
Notes[link]
- ^ a b c "Biography". Benny Goodman – The Official Website of the King of Swing. Estate of Benny Goodman. http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography2.html. Retrieved November 5, 2010.
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r443459
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Firestone 1993,[page needed]
- ^ a b "JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography—Benny Goodman". PBS. January 8, 2001. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_goodman_benny.htm. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Collier, James Lincoln (1989). Benny Goodman and the Swing Era. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505278-1. [page needed]
- ^ Firestone 1993, pg. 42.
- ^ a b Conner, D. Russell; Hicks, Warren W. (1969) [1958 as BG-Off the Record]. BG on the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman (2nd ed.). New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House. [page needed]
- ^ a b Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Niel Shell and Barbara Shilkret, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5128-8
- ^ Stockdale, Robert L., Tommy Dorsey on the Side, Studies in Jazz, No. 19, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1995.
- ^ Red Hot Jazz website, Benny Goodman's Boys: http://www.redhotjazz.com/bgb.html
- ^ Charters, Murray. "The road to Carnegie Hall". Brantford Expositor, 2009.
- ^ The Independent, August 29, 2005. Obituaries. Spud Murphy: Big-band composer and arranger. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Clarke, Donald. The Rise and Fall of Popular Music (A polemical history). Chapter 9: The Swing Era Begins. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 134.
- ^ Benny Goodman and the Swing Era. James Lincoln. page 163 This information is attributed to writer and historian James T. Maher
- ^ "Historic Sweet's Ballroom". Archived from the original on July 23, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070723130918/http://www.historicsweetsballroom.com/pages/info_pages/Information.PDF. Retrieved July 6, 2010. Originally a dance studio built in 1923, it was managed by Bill Sweet and turned into one of Oakland's best ballrooms. The ballroom was known as McFadden's in the 1930s and as Sands Ballroom in the 1970s. In his book Benny Goodman and the Swing Era on page 164, Collier lists both a "McFadden's Ballroom in San Francisco" and "Sweet's in Oakland" as separate engagements for Goodman, with Pismo Beach in between. However, there was never a McFadden's or Sweet's Ballroom in San Francisco, and the length of the trip to Pismo Beach was not at all convenient. While Oakland and San Francisco are about 15 miles (24 km) apart, Pismo Beach is more than 235 miles (378 km) south from both of them. Once in Pismo Beach, Los Angeles is only 175 miles (282 km) away continuing southerly and easterly. Pismo Beach was a logical place for Goodman to play while traveling from Oakland to L.A.
- ^ Selvin, Joel. San Francisco, the musical history tour, Chronicle Books, 1996, p. 138. ISBN 0-8118-1007-0
- ^ SFGate.com. May 26, 2009. Benny Goodman's music still swings. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday, Da Capo Press, 2006, p. 36. ISBN 0-306-81491-9
- ^ a b Spink, George. TuxedoJunction.net. Benny Goodman. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- ^ BBC (March 22, 2006). "Jitterbug". http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A8240438. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Will Friedwald (November 20, 2006). "Arts and Letters: Peplowski Blows Back to His Roots". http://www.nysun.com/arts/peplowski-blows-back-to-his-roots/43821/. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ a b c Mike Joyce. "The 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert". http://www.jitterbuzz.com/carcon.html. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ "insert booklet", "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert" Sony 199 2 CD reissue .
- ^ David Rickert (January 31, 2005). "Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"". http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16281. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 366.
- ^ Mary Lou Williams: "Swinger with a Mission", by Catherine O'Neill, "Books & Arts," 12/7/79
- ^ Charles Christian: Musician
- ^ Texas Monthly: Texas Music Source
- ^ Biography2
- ^ Big Band Era Recording Ban Of 1942
- ^ Jazz History Time Line[dead link]
- ^ a b c Schoenberg, Loren (1995). "Liner Notes". Benny Goodman: Undercurrent Blues. Capitol
- ^ Post-Gazette. May 8, 2005. Nate Guidry. A Life in Tune: New works trumpet Doc Wilson's longevity on the music scene
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 354.
- ^ Anthony Linick, The Lives of Ingolf Dahl (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2008), 159–61, 253, 273
- ^ Current Biography (1962). The H. W. Wilson Company. Benny Goodman
- ^ Three Cheers for Yeh!
- ^ Available on compact disc: Benny Goodman—Clarinet Classics, Pavilion Records Ltd. Pearl GEM0057
- ^ Donald Clarke. "The Rise and Fall of Popular Music". http://www.musicwebinternational.com/RiseandFall/nine.htm. Retrieved February 30, 2007. [dead link]
- ^ IMDb: The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
- ^ Firestone 1993, p. 173.
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 296, 301–302, 401.
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 296, 301–302, 401
- ^ Firestone 1993, pp. 183–184.
- ^ NNDB.com, webpage: Benny Goodman.
- ^ John S. Wilson (June 29, 1985). "JAZZ FESTIVAL; BENNY GOODMAN JOINS JOHN HAMMOND TRIBUTE". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E5D91E39F93AA15755C0A963948260. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". The Recording Academy. http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards/. Retrieved April 2, 2007.
- ^ "NAB Hall of Fame". National Association of Broadcasters. http://www.nab.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Awards7&CONTENTID=11047&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm. Retrieved May 3, 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Kenneth Turan (November 19, 2010). "Movie review: 'Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story'". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/19/entertainment/la-et-jews-baseball-20101119. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ "Film". Jewsandbaseball.com. http://www.jewsandbaseball.com/film1.html. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ Scott Barancik (July 7, 2010). "New film explores our love affair with baseball". Jewish Baseball News. http://www.jewishbaseballnews.com/tag/kevin-youkilis/page/2/. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
References[link]
- Firestone, Ross (1993). Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-03371-6.
External links[link]
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- Benny Goodman official site
- Benny Goodman web biography with audio
- Benny Goodman scores, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Benny Goodman papers (the bulk of the musician's estate) in Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University
- Benny Goodman Audio Collection, Institute of Jazz Studies, Dana Library, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.
- Benny Goodman biography
- the Benny Goodman Sextet performing live in 1950 as regulars on the DuMont network TV series Star Time
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| Name | Goodman, Benny |
| Alternative names | Goodman, Benjamin David |
| Short description | Jazz clarinetist |
| Date of birth | May 30, 1909 |
| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Date of death | June 13, 1986 |
| Place of death | New York City, New York, United States |
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