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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
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entertainment · American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986) · composer · conductor · bandleader · clarinetist · jazz musician · saxophonist · film actor · recording artist · orchestra leader · also Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman, Goodman
Born 30 May 1909 · Died 13 June 1986 · Q46755
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘They slammed their M16s against his skull’: inside the film about Amy Goodman’s fearless reporting
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2024· 3 entries
insider.si.edu: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
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Jazz: Benny Goodman: The King of Swing
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WQXR: Benny Goodman’s Clarinet
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2022· 3 entries
Released album “This is Benny Goodman”.
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Released album “The Complete Happy Session Sessions (Restauración 2022)”.
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Released album “Absolutely The Best”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “House Hop”.
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Released album “Moon Glow”.
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2018· 1 entry
NPR: Benny Goodman - King Of Swing And So Much More
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2015· 2 entries
Yale Environment 360: Preserving the 'King of Swing' on film: Rare footage shows Benny Goodman backstage and at home
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Released album “All that Jazz, Vol. 33: Benny Goodman – The Essentials, Vol. 2: Live at Basin Street”.
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2009· 1 entry
WSHU news: Benny Goodman: Forever The King Of Swing
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2005· 1 entry
NPR: Tribute to Benny Goodman
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Malipiero / Debussy / Ravel / Shulman”.
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Released album “New Sextet Sessions”.
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2002· 2 entries
Jazz: Benny Goodman: The Swing Master
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Released album “I Grandi Del Jazz - Benny Goodman - Verve Jazz Masters 33”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Let's Dance”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Ain't Misbehavin'”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman Trio & Quartet 1935/1938”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Mozart at Tanglewood”.
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Benny Goodman with Arturo Toscanini, Béla Bartók, Joseph Szigeti, Earl Wild”.
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Released album “Yale Recordings, Volume 10: The Original Benny Goodman Quartet”.
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Released album “The jazz masters 100 años de Swing”.
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Released album “The Classics”.
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1995· 2 entries
Released album “The Yale University Music Library - Benny Goodman - Volumes 9 and 10”.
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Released album “In Moscow 1962”.
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1993· 4 entries
Released album “Yale Recordings, Volume 8: Recordings From Benny Goodman's Private Collection”.
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Released album “Giants of the Big Band Era: Benny Goodman”.
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Released album “Collection”.
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Released album “The King Swings”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Contrasts / Mikrokosmos (excerpts)”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “His Orchestra and his Combos 1941 - 1955”.
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Released album “String Quartets 19, KV 465 & 20, KV 499 / Clarinet Quintet KV 581”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Benny In Brussels”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman in Stockholm 1959”.
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1987· 5 entries
Released album “King of Jazz”.
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Released album “Compact Jazz: Benny Goodman”.
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Released album “The Big Band Sound”.
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Released album “Roll ’Em, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet Sessions, Volume 1: After You've Gone”.
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1986· 11 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1986).
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Of a heart attack while taking a nap at his apartment in Manhattan House
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Died 1986-06-13.
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Released album “Benny Goodman Collector's Edition: Compositions & Collaborations”.
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Released album “The Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet Sessions, Vol.1: After You've Gone”.
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Released album “Что может сделать лунный свет”.
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Released album “The King of Swing”.
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Released album “Как глубок океан”.
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Released album “Clarinet Concertos”.
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Released album “Clarinet Concerto and Quintet”.
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Released album “Air Play”.
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1985· 2 entries
Goodman appeared at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City for "A Tribute to John Hammond"
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Released album “Benny Goodman plays Classics”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman and Friends”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “The Best of Newhouse - Jerry Newhouse Presents Benny Goodman, His Orchestra, Trio & Quartet 1938-39”.
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Released album “The Legendary Benny Goodman”.
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 4”.
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Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Volume VII / 1938-1939”.
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Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Volume VIII 1936-1939”.
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Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Vol. VI / 1938”.
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1979· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman on V-Disc Vol.2”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Volume V / 1937-1938”.
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Released album “Big City Swing”.
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1977· 4 entries
Released album “Swingtime - 1938”.
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Released album “A Legendary Performer”.
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Released album “All of Me”.
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Released album “20 Greatest Hits”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Vol. IV / 1936-1937”.
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Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Vol III / 1936”.
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1975· 5 entries
Released album “The 1930’s – Volume 1”.
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Released album “The Complete Benny Goodman, Vol. II / 1935-1936”.
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Goodman appeared on a 1975 PBS tribute to Hammond but remained at a distance.
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Released album “The Complete Goodman, Vol. 1 - 1935”.
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Released album “Pure Gold”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman and Helen Forrest: The Original Recordings of the 1940s”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “1926-31”.
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Released album “Trio And Quartet 'Vol 2'”.
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Released album “From Broadway To Paris”.
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1972· 4 entries
Released album “Vol. 4”.
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Released album “Ted Lewis and His Band featuring Benny Goodman”.
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Was a soloist with the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series
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Released album “The Rare BG 1927-29”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Benny Goodman Today”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 And 2”.
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Released album “The Best of Benny Goodman”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Hello Benny!”.
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1962· 2 entries
In 1962, the Benny Goodman Orchestra toured the Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange program between the two nations after the Cuban Missile Crisis and the end of that phase of the Cold War; both visits were part of efforts to normalize relations between the United States and the USSR.
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The Benny Goodman Orchestra toured the Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange program between the two nations after the Cuban Missile Crisis and the end of that phase of the Cold War; both visits were part of effort
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1960· 3 entries
Released album “Sing Sing Sing”.
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Performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with conductor Alfredo Antonini at the Lewisohn Stadium in New York City
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Released album “Swing, Swing, Swing”.
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1959· 1 entry
Released album “The Benny Goodman Treasure Chest”.
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1958· 6 entries
Released album “Benny Goodman Plays World Favorites”.
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Released album “Benny Rides Again!”.
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Released album “Benny in Brussels Volume 1”.
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Released album “Swing Into Spring”.
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Released album “The Benny Goodman Sextet”.
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Released album “Benny In Brussels Volume 2”.
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1956· 3 entries
Released album “The Benny Goodman Story, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Benny Goodman plays selections from the Benny Goodman story”.
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Released album “The Great Benny Goodman”.
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1955· 2 entries
Released album “The Benny Goodman Story, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Benny Goodman Combos”.
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “Classics In Jazz”.
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Released album “B.G. in Hi-Fi”.
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1953· 1 entry
Said, "Maybe bop has done more to set music back for years than anything
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1952· 2 entries
Released album “On the Air (1937-38)”.
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Released album “Easy Does It!”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “Session for Six”.
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1949· 1 entry
Studied with clarinetist Reginald Kell, requiring a change in technique: "instead of holding the mouthpiece between his front teeth and lower lip, as he had done since he first took a clarinet in hand 30 years earlier
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1948· 2 entries
The musicians' union went on strike against the major record labels in the United States, and singers acquired the popularity that the big bands had once enjoyed
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“For Every Man There's a Woman”
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1941· 3 entries
“I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)”
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“Somebody Else Is Taking My Place”
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ASCAP had a licensing war with music publishers
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1939· 2 entries
And recommended him to Goodman, but Goodman was uninterested in electric guitar and was put off by Christian's taste in gaudy clothing
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Pianist and arranger Mary Lou Williams suggested to John Hammond, who was responsible for finding new talent for Goodman, that he see guitarist Charlie Christian
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1938· 2 entries
Released album “A Swing Session With Benny Goodman”.
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Is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music
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1936· 1 entry
His band began CBS's Camel Caravan, its third and (according to Connor and Hicks) its greatest sponsored radio show, co-starring Goodman and his former boss Nathaniel Shilkret
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1935· 1 entry
"King Porter Stomp" was released with "Sometimes I'm Happy" on the B-side, both arranged by Henderson and recorded on July 1
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1934· 1 entry
Had top ten hits with "Ain't Cha Glad
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1928· 2 entries
Played alongside Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret
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Goodman and Miller wrote "Room 1411", Miller's first known composition, which was released as a Brunswick 78
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1926· 1 entry
Joined the Ben Pollack Orchestra and made his first recordings
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1924· 1 entry
As a high school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band
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1923· 1 entry
Played at Guyon's Paradise, a local dance hall
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1921· 1 entry
At the Central Park Theater on the West Side of Chicago
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-05-30.
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1892· 1 entry
From Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor
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