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| | Benny Goodman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In early 1935, Goodman and his band were one of three bands featured on "Let's Dance", a well regarded radio show that featured various styles of dance music. | | | Many suggest that Goodman achieved the same success with jazz and swing that Elvis Presley did for rock and roll. | | | Goodman put himself into the project with a passion, cancelling a number of dates, and insisting on rehearsals being held in Carnegie Hall itself to familiarize the band with the lively acoustics of the hall. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | Goodman’s first recordings were made with the Pollack group in 1926, and give a strong example of Benny’s influences at the time including Jimmie Noone, who was then with Doc Cook and His Dreamland Orchestra and Leon Roppolo of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. | | | During this period Goodman recorded his first sides as a leader with members of the Pollack band including one 1928 date which features the only known recording of Benny on alto and baritone saxophones. | | | It was at this concert that Ben Pollack heard the young clarinetist and Benny was soon playing in Pollack& band. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -GOODMAN, BENNY |
| | Goodman's band was most successful from 1936 to 1939. | | | The music of Benny Goodman, the "King of Swing," is most closely identified with the years 1935-1945, when big bands played at dances and on the radio. | | | But Goodman was more than a bandleader and soloist; he also contributed to American musical history as a jazz clarinetist, composer, and performer of concert works for the clarinet. |
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| | Radio Hall of Fame - Benny Goodman, Music / Variety |
| | Goodman was born in Chicago on May 30, 1909 and made his professional music debut at age 11. | | | For all of Goodman’s musical innovations, perhaps the most important one came when he integrated his band in 1935 with the addition of pianist Teddy Wilson. | | | In December of 1934, the Goodman Orchestra was one of three bands hired for NBC& new three-hour music program Let’s Dance. |
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| | American Masters . Benny Goodman PBS |
| | His musical achievement reached its pinnacle in 1938, when his band blew the lid off of Carnegie Hall (the live recording of which was to become one of the best-selling jazz albums of all time). | | | With clarinet in hand, Benny Goodman was transformed from a child in Chicago's impoverished Jewish ghetto into the king of swing, greeted with near pandemonium wherever his band played. | | | Struggling to raise a family of eleven on sweatshop wages, Benny Goodman's father believed music might be a ticket out of poverty for his eldest sons. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Benny Goodman |
| | Goodman stayed with Pollack until September 1929, but also performed with Sam Lanin, Nat Shilkret, and Meyer Davis, and from 1929 to 1934 was a leading freelance musician. | | | Among the new soloists was Christian, with his long melodic lines influenced by Lester Young, who contributed most to the band, but it was the compositions and arrangements of Sauter, who had been trained at the Juilliard School, that established the band's musical character. | | | In 1947, Goodman assembled his last and most controversial traveling band (his later groups were recruited for specific engagements) to play and record arrangements in the new bop style for Capitol Records. |
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| | Benny Goodman :King of Swing |
| | Goodman organized his first band in 1932 and the second (which is the one featured on these recordings) in 1934. | | | The fourteen tracks on this remastered collection of Benny Goodman classics recorded between 1935 and 1939 contain many of the highlights of the group's recordings for the RCA Victor label. | | | Goodman is not generally thought to be the big band era's very best clarinet technician (Artie Shaw gets the nod), but Goodman had a beautiful, sweet sound and the ability to play what the dancing audience wanted to hear. |
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| | Solid! -- Benny Goodman Biography |
| | Goodman, however, caught the ear of a radio producer, who hired him for a new program, a weekly three-hour dance band marathon featuring two other orchestras, those of Xavier Cugat and Kel Murray. | | | Though the band was a critical success the public's taste in music was changing, and Goodman, realizing the inevitable, decided to pull the plug for good in late 1946. | | | Goodman also became involved in classical music, performing and guest conducting orchestras while still leading his swing outfit. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | However, what Elvis was for Rock and Roll, Benny Goodman already had been for Swing/Jazz music in the 1930s and 1940s, if not more. | | | A year later, he had another Top Ten album of re-recordings with the soundtrack album for his film biography, The Benny Goodman Story, in which he was portrayed by Steve Allen but dubbed in his own playing. | | | Unbeknownest to Goodman and his orchestra, and rather fortunately for posterity, the concert was recorded, and two copies were made: one for the Library of Congress and one for Goodman. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | Benny Goodman went on to develop a legacy so powerful that it would change the course of American music and to shape an entire musical genre. | | | Yahoo's notes on Benny Goodman, with biography, a list of record releases and audio files. | | | As a young man, he abandonded Chicago and went to New York, where he was more in demand as a sideman in various bands. |
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| | Bluebird Jazz |
| | Goodman added to his band electric guitarist Charlie Christian, an improviser as innovative as Goodman at his peak. | | | Goodman first made sides with such brilliant African-American instrumentalists as Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, and Frankie Newton, and then, within a few weeks, backed two vocalists?Bessie Smith, on her last record date, and Billie Holiday on her first. | | | But the most important association for Goodman, which began in fall 1933, was with a young record reviewer and aspiring producer, John Hammond, who persuaded Goodman to record the hot jazz that he knew him to be capable of. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | 1955 saw the release of the feature film The Benny Goodman Story, in which the musician was portrayed by comedian Steve Allen (who, despite his talents in other formats, was not entirely convincing in his mime of playing the clarinet). | | | Born to Russian immigrant parents, Benny Goodnam exhibited such remarkable musical aptitude as a child that he joined his first professional band at the age of 14. | | | The Benny Goodman Orchestra had a shaky begining due to personnel problems, but by the time its first tour reached California in August of 1935 the band had become immensely popular. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | Benny appeared in Radio Shows such as his popular show "Let's Dance", the "Camel Caravan," and the "Victor Borge Show," and a biography was written about him in 1939 entitled "The Kingdom of Swing." Benny made an impressive amount of records at this time of his career. | | | Benny Goodman spent many years studying classical music, and frequently played with small chamber groups and became a virtuouso clarinet soloist with symphony orchestras under conductors such as Bernstein, Toscanini and Ormandy. | | | Benny Goodman's last studio recordings were made in January 1986. |
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| | American BigBands - Page 2 "G" Bands |
| | Benny should also be remembered for forming the "personality" concept in big band swing. | | | It was with Benny's band that the sidemen were given public exposure as soloists. | | | At the start, when Benny's orchestra was little known, it was basically a dance band, ocassionally playing some 'hot' music. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | In fact, not many Chicagoans had heard of Benny Goodman and his orchestra or their new music called "swing." By the end of the Congress engagement on May 23, 1936, however, there was little doubt that something momentous had happened in the Urban Room. | | | During Goodman’s six-month stay at the Congress, he and his band continued to record for RCA Victor's Bluebird label. | | | For the next decade, Benny Goodman and his orchestra set the style and the standards for the big bands that dominated America’s popular music. |
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| | Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing" |
| | Goodman grew weary of the loud, crazy music that he was forced to play, due in large part to Krupa's showmanship. | | | Goodman's solo features some intelligent reworking of the melody and an almost sinister tone, yet not lacking in sophistication. | | | On the last of these, Krupa takes his longest solo (Goodman seems to start his solo on accident before Krupa restates the theme, but he also does it at the Carnegie Hall Concert) before the full band comes in to bring the piece to the end of the first section. |
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| | _The Carnegie Hall Concert_ |
| | Because Goodman had used musicians from a variety of bands, contract difficulties made it virtually impossible to issue a recording. | | | We were at the recreation of the Goodman Carnegie Hall concert presented by the New Columbia Swing Band on January 16, 1998, exactly sixty years after the original. | | | We sat in the front row during the concert, where, it was very apparent, that all the musicians involved worked hard on the music and were really having fun. |
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| | Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials |
| | At age 14, Benny helped to support his family with musical performances at local dance halls. | | | He ventured to New York where he organized his first big band, a 12-piece creation which auditioned successfully for Billy Rose's new Music Hall which led to a recording contract with Columbia records. | | | Upon learning that the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue was lending instruments and giving music lessons for 25 cents a week, he enrolled Benny, where he learned to play the clarinet. |
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| | Milt Bernhart |
| | He was mumbling that he didn't understand what Benny was so mad about. | | | I guess I had never heard that Las Vegas is such a bastion of Jim Crow-ism, but I was certain that Benny would not allow a star of his band to be restricted in such a demeaning way. | | | Bill Kratt, the manager, is at a total loss as far as an explanation of Benny's outburst is concerned. |
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| | Benny Goodman Swing Big Band Leader - 1956 |
| | Benny says he's enjoying tremendously playing with such artists as Jim Maxwell, Mel Davis and Fern Caron on trumpets, Urbil Green and Rex Peer on trombones, Budd Johnson, Walt Levinsky, Al Black and Sol Schlinger on saxophones, Hank Jones on piano, Irv Manning on bass, Steve Jordan on guitar and Mousie on drums. | | | It makes you wonder how it was possible to be without Benny's music for so long. | | | Then, In quick contrast, Benny presents Mitzie Cottle, the in most refreshing band singer I believe I've ever seen or heard. |
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| | Benny Goodman - Verve Records |
| | Though Goodman broke up his band at the end of the Forties, he never stopped practicing, and whenever he assembled groups to make tours, he was always in good form. | | | As popular music turned away from big bands and jazz, Goodman’s position in the entertainment world diminished. | | | He also hired the best musicians he could find and put together a number of superb musical organizations. |
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| | Benny Goodman's Boys |
| | These are Benny Goodman's first records under his own name. | | | The January of 1928 session was released as Benny Goodman's Boys with Jim and Glenn. |
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| | Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Benny Goodman |
| | When the band got to California, though, crowds of people were lining up waiting to hear Goodman and his band. | | | The band was able to make its first extended tour because of the popularity of the radio show. | | | His first clarinet was borrowed from Chicago's Kehelah Jacob Synagogue in order to play in the boys' band there. |
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| | Benny Goodman -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | American jazz singer who performed with a number of prominent big bands during the late 1930s and early '40s, including those led by Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James; she embarked on a long and successful solo career in 1944 and recorded her last album, Now and Forever, in 1983 (b. | | | In the early 1930s two bands made important contributions to jazz: Bennie Moten's, with the recordings of Toby,Lafayette, and Prince of Wails, and the Casa Loma Orchestra, with Casa Loma Stomp and San Sue Strut. | | | Discusses various musicians she performed and recorded with, including Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman. |
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| | Songbirds: Peggy Lee |
| | I suspect that Benny always had in the back of his mind the fact that his great success had come as the leader of a great dance band, and without the dance audiences, it would have not happened. | | | All songs recorded for Columbia Records between August 15, 1941 and July 30, 1943, except the last three tracks on disc two which were recorded for Capitol Records between September 12 and December 2, 1947. | | | The two songs show strong similarity in delivery and in the pervasive use of celeste, a musical instrument that is otherwise absent in Lee-Goodman efforts. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | During this time the Benny Goodman Trio featured Gene Krupa (drums) and Teddy Wilson (piano) who was the first black musician to play with a white band. | | | Since the mid 1930's Benny Goodmans swing band has been a main stay for dance music. | | | As time went on the Trio picked up other jazz masters like Lionel Hampton (vibraphone) and Charlie Christian (guitar). |
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| | The Benny Goodman Story (1955) |
| | Maybe it's just a jazz-lover's point of view; Benny Goodman is my favourite artist, and is the man who inspired me to take up the clarinet. | | | Steve Allen comes across as a likable Goodman, and manages to look the part. | | | Plot Summary: Bio of swing band leader Benny Goodman from age 10 (1919) to his landmark Carnegie Hall band concert in 1938... |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | Benny grew up listening to New Orleans Jazz and studying the styles of Joe (“King”) Oliver, Freddie Keppard and Louis Armstrong. | | | Schoeppe was a classical instructor from the Chicago Musical College and a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who hated jazz and instilled in all his students (who included Jimmy Noone and Buster Bailey) a respect for classical musicianship. | | | A child prodigy, Benny played on stage at the age of twelve. |
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| | Goodman, Benny. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | (Benjamin David Goodman), 1909–86, American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b. | | | He also achieved success playing classical music for clarinet, particularly with the Budapest String Quartet. | | | Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Morton Gould wrote music for him. |
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| | Amazon.com: Benny Goodman: Books: D. Russell Connor |
| | Meticulously researched with Goodman's participation, the book documents his recording dates, radio and television broadcasts, motion pictures, and public and private performances, citing their availability on record and audio- and videotape. | | | Hitherto unpublished photographs show Goodman in his last recording session and in his final concert. | | | His two earlier authorized works on Benny Goodman, "BG--On the Record" and "BG--Off The Rcord", are now collectors' items. |
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| | Amazon.com: Benny Goodman - Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing: DVD: Benny Goodman |
| | They also whitewash Benny's severe personality problems, which only got worse as he aged. | | | This documentary reveals in an excelent manner in only one hour what minds Clarinet and swing music in the hands and body of this virtuose man called Benny Goodman. | | | This biography includes rare, never-before-seen performance footage from the '20s and '30s, studio rehearsal footage from the '50s, home movies, rare audio tracks, and video footage of Goodman recounting his own life. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Benny Goodman Story [Soundtrack]: Music |
| | Seriously, I never get bored of listening to the Benny Goodman Story. | | | Customers who bought music by Benny Goodman also bought music by these artists: | | | I honestly love this C.D and if your thinking of buying this DO NOT HESITATE, it's a wonderful CD, and at the price it couldn't be better. |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | After resigning in 1929, Goodman worked with Red Nichols, as a studio musician, and then leading his own band at Bill Rose Music Hall (where he had a weekly NBC broadcast). | | | While his later orchestras, which included Cootie Williams, Billy Butterfield, Lou McGarity, Jimmy Maxwell, Charlie Queener, Aaron Sachs, Red Norvo, John Best, Peanuts Hucko, Frank Beach, and singer Peggy Lee, continued to be successful, Goodman drifted toward clarinet playing (in classical music, especially). | | | Goodman made a 1962 tour of Russia for the US State Department, appeared in two feature films A Song is Born (1947) and The Benny Goodman Story (1955), toured Europe through the '70s, and even returned to Carnegie Hall for a 40-year anniversary of his original performance. |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Benny Goodman |
| | He made several films (playing himself on the soundtrack of The Benny Goodman Story in which actor Steve Allen played Goodman) and was also an accomplished classical clarinettist, commissioning new pieces from Bartok, Hindemith and Copland. | | | The Birth of Swing (Bluebird ND 90601) 3CD set | | | From his earliest years as a childhood prodigy until well into his seventies, Benny Goodman was the most technically accomplished clarinettist in jazz. |
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| | Benny Goodman : Alternate Goodman, Vol. 3 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | The third of 12 LPs put out by the Swedish label Phontastic (like the others) is comprised of alternate takes and rare studio recordings by the Benny Goodman Orchestra. | | | There are two sextet tracks with trumpeter Cootie Williams, Count Basie and guitarist Charlie Christian, a few Helen Forrest vocals and some advanced instrumentals. | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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| | MSN Encarta - Benny Goodman |
| | Benny Goodman (1909-1986), American jazz clarinetist and orchestra leader, known for his technical virtuosity and the melodic inventiveness of his improvisations. | | | With the American music critic Irving Kolodin he wrote his autobiography, The Kingdom of Swing (1939). | | | Goodman appeared in several motion pictures, including The Benny Goodman Story (1956). |
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| | Goodman, Benny - definition of Goodman, Benny by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Benny Goodman - United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including Black as well as White musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) | | | Goodman, Benny - definition of Goodman, Benny by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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| | RadioLovers.com - Benny Goodman |
| | Click on the Links below to listen for free online: | | | Free Old time Radio Shows - Benny Goodman | | | For more information about copyrights for Old Time Radio shows, |
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| | Benny Goodman |
| | A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will be directed to the Benny Goodman Foundation. | | | Benny Goodman’s Selmer clarinet with case, pitched in Bb, series 10G, serial #Y2830, manufactured in 1974. |
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