Results for "Benny Goodman"

Carsten Dahl / Mads Vinding / Alex Riel: In Our Own Sweet Way

by Chris Mosey
June 24, 2009

After Paris, Copenhagen was the European refuge for American jazz musicians fleeing racial and sometimes political oppression in their homeland in the postwar years. Ben Webster is buried there (in the same cemetery as Søren Kierkegaard), Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin locked horns there. Such greats created a solid local scene, which continues to produce some ...

"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2009

With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...

Marian McPartland: Living Through the History

by Maxwell Chandler
June 1, 2009

Marian McPartland, whose personal artistic history is deeply entwined with that of jazz, continues writing, touring and educating. Following her muse, she has encountered a who's who of jazz while leaving her own indelible mark on the music. Her radio program, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, is the longest running show on National Public Radio, and she ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Benny Goodman

May 30, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Benny Goodman's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Benny GoodmanBenjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny\'s mother never ...

Memories of You

Featuring the music of Benny Goodman
Duration: 3:23
May 30, 2009

Gary Burton: Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
May 25, 2009

"I got started in Nashville and knew a lot of the country musicians. I got my first record contract from Chet Atkins who saw me playing in a local club in Nashville and who decided to talk to RCA and get them to offer me a long-term contract," says this renowned musician born in a small ...

'King of Swing' Benny Goodman Would Be 100

May 22, 2009

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 swing era that dominated popular American music for much of the 1930s and 1940s. From Carnegie Hall and New York's exclusive ...

Chris Flory: For You

by Ken Dryden
May 15, 2009

Guitarist Chris Flory has predominately performed in bop and swing settings, having worked with Benny Goodman, Bob Wilber, Ruby Braff and Scott Hamilton. But though he has long had a love for blues, aside from appearing as a sideman on a date by Duke Robillard, he has had few opportunities to record extensively in the genre. ...

Sanofi-Aventis Jazzfest 2009 - A Salute Benny Goodman on June 6th

May 14, 2009

Sanofi-aventis Jazzfest 2009 to salute Benny Goodman on June 6 at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey MADISON, NJ -- The metropolitan areas only major main stream jazz festival this summer will take place on the campus of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey on June 5 and 6 featuring a celebration of the centennial of ...

Zoot Sims: With Bucky Pizzarelli

by Andrew Velez
May 14, 2009

This Zoot Sims-Bucky Pizzarelli set of duets is now 33 years old but there's nary a sign of cobwebs here on a session in which the mutual pleasure of these two pros is happily apparent. If it contained only their bossa-flavored take on Michel Legrand's “Watch What Happens," it would be well worth the price. As ...