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 ...

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 ...

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.

101 Honeysuckle Rose / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 I'll Never Say Never Again / Benny Goodman, Helen Ward. Clarinet. 103 Somebody Stole My Gal / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 104 Frenesi / Benny Goodman.

After the success of last year’s Billy Strayhorn Festival, perhaps it was inevitable that the Music Institute of Chicago would convene a subsequent tribute to a major jazz figure. This time, the ...

Lesa Cline-Ransome, illus. by James E. Ransome. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2362-0 In 1936, the Benny Goodman Trio became the first interracial band to perform in public, with Benny ...

The clarinet, valued for its versatility, range and pure sinusoidal timbre, has enjoyed the attention of many of classical music’s greatest composers. Earning substantial credibility as a serious solo ...

Julian Milkis has a home in Naples. But the clarinet soloist lives all over the planet. Last month he was in his home city of St. Petersburg, Russia, for a slew of performance dates. Next month he ...

Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way, Goodman's ...