The music of Benny Goodman and his orchestra comes to life in this musical biography of the King of Swing featuring all the outstanding songs and instrumentals made famous by the immortal clarinetist.

The “King of Swing” is getting a second life on the silver screen thanks to an extensive preservation project at Yale’s Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. More than a hundred of jazz legend Benny ...

Benny Goodman was remarkable in more ways than we often realize. Obviously, his clarinet playing was extraordinary in tone, technique and soulful expression. But his musical judgment, assembly of ...

This WNYC American Music Festival program from February 19, 1941 captures the Benny Goodman Sextet in a rare and wonderful moment. This sextet represents Goodman pretty close to his prime, featuring ...

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 101 Six Flats Unfurnished / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 Idaho / Benny Goodman, Dick Haymes.

A program being webcast tonight and tomorrow night by Jazz at Lincoln Center will explore the little-known story of the 1936 formation, by clarinetist Benny Goodman, of a racially integrated jazz ...

Eighty years ago this month, legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, made history with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman ...

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, ...

Inviting the Benny Goodman band to Carnegie Hall in early 1938 had the vaguely sarcastic aura of suggesting that hungry street urchins be served dinner at the Stork Club. It was all right for them to ...

Douglas Cooper holds a conversation with Benny Goodman at his New York apartment, before his preparations for an evening flight to a European concert tour. Cooper asks Goodman about his musical entree ...