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, ...

Let's Dance; I've Found a New Baby; Send in the Clowns; Loch Lomond; Star Dust; I Love a Piano; Roll 'em; King Porter Stomp; Rocky Raccoon; Yesterday; That's a Plenty; How High the Moon; Moonglow; ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

Pianist Kenny Werner encourages his students to achieve “effortless mastery,” and creates this sense of weightlessness in his own music by endowing his complex improvisations with meditative, songlike ...