Topic: Benny Goodman

Old-time radio convention meets for last time

0 . For one weekend a year, the ghosts and survivors of Jack Benny, Benny Goodman, Goodman Ace and hundreds of other legends of the old days of ...

Self-published Author Releases HOW I MET…

Self-published Author Releases HOW I MET.... . New book contains author's experiences with celebrated people. Grand Prairie, TX (PRWEB) May 17...
This documentary from Germany's Konstanze Burkard recounts a cultural exchange trip to the USSR made by American jazz musician Benny Goodman and...
In the centennial year of her birth, The Root took a look at the long and varied career of one of jazz's unsung female piano virtuosos. We're...
Jazz24.org, a Tacoma-based Internet jazz radio station, recently compiled this latest list of definitive jazz tracks: The jazz 100. Thousands of...

An entertaining doorstop

0 View Larger Image Frank The Voice (Doubleday; 786 pages; $35) . If ever a show-business figure was destined to be the subject of a diligent...

The big band era

The Big Band era was a period of American musical history that featured a sub-genre of the only uniquely American musical form: Many people mark the beginning of the Big Band era with the appearance of Benny Goodman and his orchestra in ...

Band reviews: Garbage

Like the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys and Marilyn Manson , she probably chose the name for maximum shock and disgust from the older generation. Anyhow, the opinion of one old guy who still yearns for Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Count Basie ...

The greatest jazz drummers

There were drummers before them, most notably Warren 'Baby' Dodds,younger brother of clarinettist Johnny Dodds, and Arthur James 'Zutty' Singleton; and alongside them legends such as Jo Jones and Art Blakey, and later Philly Jo Jones and Elvin Jones; and after ...
In a time when radio is filled with R&B, rap, country and rock, Louis Prima Jr.'s head hears only swing, the music from a golden age of big names...