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 ...
Title on container: The famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert. Automatic sequence. Program notes ([3] p.) by Irving Kolodin on container. Performer(s): Jazz ensembles, featuring Benny Goodman, ...
Nearly 75 years after Benny Goodman’s legendary Carnegie Hall concert brought jazz official respectability alongside classical music, Irvin Mayfield brought the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to the same ...
He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...
What did they think, that evening of January 16, 1938, sitting in the hallowed grounds of European musical culture, when Benny Goodman and his “Swing Orchestra” (as they were billed in the program) ...
Title on container: The famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert. Automatic sequence. Program notes ([3] p.) by Irving Kolodin on container. Performer(s): Jazz ensembles, featuring Benny Goodman, ...