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 ...

Ninety years ago, Benny Goodman, a white clarinetist and bandleader, breached American society’s entrenched color line like a clarinet’s high note piercing a fog of static. By revealing the racially ...

101 Let's Dance / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 Ridin' High / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 103 Nice Work If You Can Get It / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 104 Vibraphone Blues / Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton.

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. 101 Six Flats Unfurnished / Benny Goodman. Clarinet. 102 Idaho / Benny Goodman, Dick Haymes.

After the success of last year’s Billy Strayhorn Festival, perhaps it was inevitable that the Music Institute of Chicago would convene a subsequent tribute to a major jazz figure. This time, the ...

Benny Goodman rose from poverty in a Chicago tenement to become one of the biggest stars of the swing era, earning the nickname “King of Swing.” His music attracted a huge teenage following and helped ...

Benny Goodman, like Duke Ellington, lived nine musical lives. Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, ...

The clarinet, valued for its versatility, range and pure sinusoidal timbre, has enjoyed the attention of many of classical music’s greatest composers. Earning substantial credibility as a serious solo ...

Julian Milkis has a home in Naples. But the clarinet soloist lives all over the planet. Last month he was in his home city of St. Petersburg, Russia, for a slew of performance dates. Next month he ...

Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters. Bettmann / Corbis In the hierarchy of musical instruments, the clarinet tends to ...