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 ...

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 ...

The “King of Swing” is getting a second life on the silver screen thanks to an extensive preservation project at Yale’s Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. More than a hundred of jazz legend Benny ...

(CBS 11) - Today's blog is about the big band era of the 1930s. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)" is a song from the earlier years of the big bands. It was written by Louis Prima and released in 1936.

This video examines how Benny Goodman’s innovations in rhythm, arrangement, and performance reshaped the foundation of modern ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. And swing is coming to Naperville with the Julian Bliss Septet. The ’30s and ’40s-era swing band performs “A Tribute to Benny Goodman” at 8 p.m.

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.

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 ...

NEW HAVEN -- The King of Swing would be 100 this year, and if Benny Goodman were alive, he'd be pretty impressed by the birthday bash that Yale has come up with this week to celebrate the milestone.

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 ...