ROCK HALL John Doughten, a regular with the Mainstay's house band Max 'n' Friends, has put together an all-star group to pay tribute the music of the Benny Goodman Quintet Saturday at the Mainstay ...
BRIDGEWATER -- Benny Goodman's music defined and propelled the Swing Era, capturing the hearts of young people and resulting in the re-sounding success of his landmark Carnegie Hall concert. The King ...
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 ...
In the luxurious rectangular box that is the Waldorf-Astoria’s Empire Room, a wellrounded, balding businessman in spectacles put a clarinet to his lips and once again became a famous living trademark.
Benny Goodman Orchestra’s 1943 concert at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site will be commemorated with a Big Band concert there featuring Simply Swing on Saturday, July 13. Dance lessons ...