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Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing".

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  • FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Berkshire Gateway to Feature Phil Woods, Freddie Bryant, ...

    News Source: All ABout Jazz | 1 day ago
    2013-06-18 Berkshires Jazz, Inc. today announced the second annual Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend, bringing marquee performers and local jazz musicians to downtown Lee, Massachusetts, July 25-28. In collaboration with Berkshire Gateway Preservation,
  • Take Five With Dr. Joseph D. Howell

    News Source: All About Jazz | 5 days ago
    June 15, 2013 Meet Joseph David Howell: Dr. Joseph D. Howell has gone from being a mostly self- taught musician from a poor small-town family to earning a Doctor of Musical Arts from a prestigious conservatory. Today he professionally performs,
  • Music Theatre Guild goes ‘Girl Crazy' at Scherr

    News Source: Thousand Oaks Acorn | 7 days ago
    Music Theatre Guild goes Girl Crazy' at Scherr Conejo Valley theater fans are in for a treat on Sunday when Musical Theatre Guild presents George and Ira Gershwin's classic 1930 musical comedy Girl Crazy at the Civic Arts Plaza's Scherr Forum. The
  • That old black magic

    News Source: The Hindu | 11 days ago
    Seventeen years after Ella Fitzgerald passed away, the author still finds himself in thrall to a certain kind of singing. Summer journeys to Niagara and to other places aggravate all our cares/We'll save our fares!/I've a cosy little flat in what is
  • Inventive Britten concert at S.F. Conservatory of Music

    News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 14 days ago
    This Like most composers, Benjamin Britten left an extensive paper trail that included not only completed works but sketches, fragments, juvenilia and more...But the evening's real novelty, which came after intermission, was a beguiling bit of
  • PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jazz This Week: Red Baraat, Two Times True, St. Louis Big ...

    News Source: All ABout Jazz | 19 days ago
    2013-05-31 While it's not a very busy week for touring jazz musicians visiting St. Louis, as usual our local musicians and bands stand ready with a plethora of performances of their own...Tonight, alumni of the music programs at Parkway West High
  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman

    News Source: All ABout Jazz | 20 days ago
    Benny Goodman Published: 2013-05-30 All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman,
  • The music world loses a great jazz champion - Jean Bach

    News Source: Telegram & Gazette | 20 days ago
    This has been attributed to Oscar Wilde , Mae West and Gary Oldman ...She was Jean Bach , a beauty in her 90s who reigned over the jazz and music world from her adorable Washington Square Mews house and then moved upstairs to One Fifth Avenue,


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