Now that Benny Goodman’s night at Carnegie Hall is largely beyond the sentimental gravitation of nostalgia and no one is left alive who can speak of it from memory, it runs the risk of becoming small.

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 ...

Lorry Black first fell in love with Benny Goodman’s album “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert” at band camp when he was just 14 years old. Sixteen years later, Black, the associate director of ...

For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman, who would have turned 100 on May 30, defined for most people the ...

This week Richard Steele and I are taking a look at the artistry and influence of Chicagoan Benny Goodman. Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman would have been 103 years old on May 30th and he remains for ...

Those looking to preview some of the most interesting jazz offerings due to arrive in any given year know that New York's Winter Jazzfest is the place to do it. For more than a decade, this annual ...

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, ...

Guest host Bob Wilber made no apologies, announcing at the start of the Lincoln Center concert that it took three clarinetists to pay homage to the King of Swing and conjure up the sound and ...

TOKYO — Benny Goodman, an older idol, made a few comments on the newest teen-age idols, the Beatles, at a press conference after arriving here Saturday. "The youngsters of every generation need their ...

One day last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family’s Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, ...