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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 ...

1. In 1934, after years of struggle, the American clarinetist Benny Goodman assembled a band that included Gene Krupa on drums, Bunny Berigan on trumpet and Helen Ward on vocals. A six-month gig on ...

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 ...

Benny Goodman, like Duke Ellington, lived nine musical lives. Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, ...

Gene Krupa "stole Benny [Goodman]'s thunder," says Kennith Kimery, executive producer of the SMithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. "In the end that cost him his job." Hugh Talman, NMAH, SI When I ...

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, guests Allan Vaché and Chuck Hedges on clarinet, vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, and John Sheridan on piano join the Jim Cullum Jr. Jazz Band in a tribute to the Benny Goodman ...

One day last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family’s Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, ...

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