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This exploitation went beyond caricature: it concerned the music, too. Benefiting from what black musicians had created, numerous white bands gradually began developing a slightly straiter-laced form of jazz. It was the acme of Swing, with the rise of...
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He shared recording time and stage space with stellar fellow jazz cats such as clarinetist Benny Goodman, drummer Roy Haynes and fellow bassist Charles Mingus, as well as free jazz trailblazers such as saxophonist Albert Ayler and cornet player Don...
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 19: Wendy Goodman and Ben Goodman attend the NY Filmmaker Party at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at The Bowery Hotel on April 19, 2011 in New York City. View Photo »
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We loved the music of the big bands — Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman. We loved to dance, and we did a lot of it ... We went to the nightclubs in the late '30s and early'40s if we could afford it.
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"But she always stood by me," he said. Looking back on their lives, the couple said the early days of their marriage were during hard times. They remember having to save up for a month to buy tickets to go listen to jazz musician Benny Goodman when he...
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I haven’t seen it yet, but they would never do that (coming from someone who used to work in the photo dept. of their sister mag Time). Linar’e is the clear winner. daJudge: Anyway, Jon Abby, to foment my misery, I guess I’ll listen to some Dixieland...
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Long Island 's Swingtime Big Band dips into the great American songbook to perform a program of classic love songs made famous by bands led by Glenn Miller , Duke Ellington , Count Basie , Harry James and Benny Goodman , among others. The band's...
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an admirer of musicians who were great executors, who were very articulate and glib and facile and played torrents of notes, like Benny Goodman. And Les himself was a speed demon on guitar, and yet never lost the value of a simple melody--and the compelling allure of a melody by itself: That's major stu...
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And come back to Jazz Central on Monday night (2/13) for a swingfest with guitarist/banjoist Kent Saunders and bassist Gary Raynor. Saunders, often appearing with the Wolverines, has an amazing history performing with Oscar Peterson, George Shearing,...
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The two married, raising their four children in New York City while summering at a bucolic compound in Stamford, Conn. Pete Seeger taught music to Carly’s West Village kindergarten. George Gershwin and Benny Goodman were family friends, and Richard...
About Benny Goodman
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Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman". Full Article
