The Hits Of Benny Goodman; Let's Dance; Jumpin' At The Woodside; What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?; Stompin' At The Savoy; Get Happy; Somebody Stole My Gal; You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me; ...
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, ...
He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...