For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman, who would have turned 100 on May 30, defined for most people the ...

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There's a new sound. The sound of rebellion. It's also the story of swing, and it's king, Benny Goodman. Benny Goodman. The name alone evokes a completely different era in popular music and jazz. His ...

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 ...

Too rarely, a single musical style unites listeners who crave artistic innovation with those who just wanna get down. For a decade beginning in the mid-1930s, artists such as Louis Armstrong, Benny ...

When the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, so was swing dance. A century later, “Swing!” celebrates the music and the moves of this era of jazz. The musical, featuring well-known songs by artists ...

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Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way, Goodman's ...