Results for "Benny Goodman"

Article: Album Review

Benny Goodman: 40th Anniversary Concert (Live at Carnegie Hall)

by Graham L. Flanagan
June 13, 2008

One autumn day in 1978, a sprightly 69-year-old Benny Goodman decided on a whim that he wanted to 'book' Carnegie Hall for a gig commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the landmark performance held and so famously-recorded there for the Columbia label in 1938. That show registered as the first official full-length jazz program ever held at ...

News: Music Industry

The New Yorker's 100 Essential Jazz Albums

May 15, 2008

While finishing “Bird-Watcher," a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a ...

Video

All The Cats Join In

Featuring the music of Benny Goodman
Duration: 4:55
April 1, 2008

Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (joined by the Pied Pipers) provide the swinging soundtrack to this 1946 animated cartoon from the Disney Studios.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Benny Goodman: The Essential & With Benny in Mind

by Ken Dryden
January 6, 2008

Benny Goodman The Essential Benny Goodman Columbia/Bluebird/Legacy 2007 Allan Vaché With Benny in Mind Arbors 2006 By the time of his death in 1987, clarinetist Benny Goodman was firmly ...

Album

Swing Is The Thing / A Decade Of Classic Recording 1932-1942

By Benny Goodman

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2007

Video

Airmail Special

Featuring the music of Benny Goodman
Duration: 8:02
May 30, 2007

Benny Goodman plays one of his signature songs in this clip from the 1982 North Sea Jazz Festival. Benny Goodman - Clarinet Scott Hamilton - Tenor Warren Vache - Cornet Chris Flory - Guitar Phil Flanagan - Bass John Bunch - Piano Mel Lewis - Drums

Album

Carnegie Hall, January 16Th, 1938 - The Complete Concert

By Benny Goodman

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2006

Album

Vol. III / All The Cats Join In

By Benny Goodman

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2006

Video

Rose's Room

Featuring the music of Benny Goodman
Duration: 7:15
September 29, 2006

Goodman's band gives a lecture about chord changes and demonstrates musically after a brief discussion.

Article: Profile

Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend

by Greg Thomas
February 10, 2006

Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...