Eighty years ago, barriers were broken when Benny Goodman took a mixed race band to play jazz to Carnegie Hall. How Benny Goodman Orchestrated 'The Most Important Concert In Jazz History' By 1938, ...

Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. At one time every drummer in ...

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 ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...

On January 16, 1938, Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America’s venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert – widely considered one of the most ...

Benny Goodman, leader, clarinet; Mel Davis, John Frosk, Billy Hodges, trumpet; Rex Peer, Jack Rains, trombone; Peanuts Hucko, Al Black, Budd Johnson, Bill Slapin ...

The fifth annual John Denman Memorial Concert includes a Benny Goodman tribute by a man who has performed alongside the legendary jazz clarinetist and composer. While with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, ...

Fourteen years ago, about the time Benny Goodman was doing imitations of Ted Lewis in a Chicago vaudeville house, Paul Whiteman & band gave a jazz concert in Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall. What it lacked ...

The jazz clarinetist and bandleader dubbed the King of Swing performs his final concert in 1980 at an unassuming club in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens. Starring Benny Goodman Svend Asmussen Movie ...

CHARLESTON — The Charleston Community Band concert on Thursday, June 23 will feature one of its founding musicians, clarinetist Jayne Ozier, on "Benny Goodman: The King of Swing" medley.