The Hits Of Benny Goodman; Let's Dance; Jumpin' At The Woodside; What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?; Stompin' At The Savoy; Get Happy; Somebody Stole My Gal; You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me; ...

RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...

Ninety years ago, Benny Goodman, a white clarinetist and bandleader, breached American society’s entrenched color line like a clarinet’s high note piercing a fog of static. By revealing the racially ...

He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...