Benny Goodman's music still swings. Music. By Jesse Hamlin, Special to The Chronicle May 26, 2009. In this Feb. 1986 file photo, Jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, performs in his New York apartment.

When Benny Goodman's The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert was finally released in 1950, it became one of the first LPs to sell more than one million copies. Times have changed, but the music ...

On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman Orchestra became the first swing/jazz band ever to perform in America's citadel of high culture, previously reserved exclusively for classical music concerts.

January 31, 2000 • Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert legitimized jazz in the eyes of the music establishment. 'Sing, Sing, Sing' Listen ...

music - benny goodman and his orchestra, with martha tilton, “bei mir bist du schÖn” Benny Goodman and his Orchestra live at the famous Carnegie Hall Concert on January 16, 1938.

By 1938, clarinetist Benny Goodman was already known as "The King of Swing" — the leader of the most popular dance band in America at a time when swing jazz was America's most popular music.

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman. Source: Michael Ricci May 30, 2023. All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, ...

Goodman used his popularity and fanbase to fight against the notion of racial segregation in music, Harrison said. “When I was growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, no one really batted an eye at ...

By now it is enshrined in musical legend how Goodman, one of 12 children of a $20-a-week immigrant tailor, started playing music at age 9 with two of his brothers, and how they used instruments ...