News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
For many people, band leader Benny Goodman symbolizes the Swing Era, which dominated the music scene in the 1930s and '40s. Influenced by musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Goodman introduced white audiences to a musical form pioneered by black...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 6 months ago
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 innovations changed the landscape of American music...On a "V-Disc" created for the troops overseas, he...