| Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame.Among these prestigious musical masters are CMG Worldwide clients Ella Fitzgerald and Benjamin David, commonly known as Benny Goodman, who join fellow melodic revolutionaries such as Fats Waller and King Oliver for this posthumous honor.The ceremony will be held at Fredrick P.Do you want to see a picture of Benny Goodman?Maybe you would rather read a famous quote from Benny Goodman.Find out all you would want to know about Benny Goodman on the About Benny page.Visit the Official Store for books, music, videos and DVDs!Benny Goodman collection today.Download a FREE wallpaper or screen saver of Benny Goodman for your desktop.He was associated with the Austin High School Gang, having gone to school with drummer Dave Tough.Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in New York studios.Jess Stacey on piano and Gene Krupa on drums.Powered by Oxford University Press.Benny Goodman received rudimentary musical training in 1919 at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue and the next year joined the boys club band at Jane Addams's Hull House, where he received lessons from the director James Sylvester.Also important
during this period were his two years of instruction from the classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp.During these formative years, he also absorbed the music of New Orleans
musicians such as King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, and especially the clarinetists Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone, Buster Bailey, Albert Nicholas, and Barney
Bigard.In 1923, Goodman joined the musicians' union and played regularly with Murph Podalasky and Jules Herbevaux.He worked for
radio and in recording studios for Red Nichols, Ben Selvin, Ted Lewis, Johnny Green, and Paul Whiteman, and on Broadway in George Gershwin's Strike Up The
Band and Girl Crazy (both in 1930), and Richard Whiting's Free For All in 1931.Many say that swing music arrived on January 16, 1938, when Benny Goodman performed his "killer diller," at New York's Carnegie Hall.The song is a selection from National Public Radio's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th Century.Under Goodman's exacting direction, the members' playing was a model of ensemble discipline.In July 1935, after playing together in a jam session, Goodman asked Teddy Wilson to record with Krupa and himself.Benny Goodman Trio,
they recorded four classic sides of jazz chamber music.After the conclusion of the Let's Dance series in May 1935 and a disappointing reception at an engagement at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, Goodman's band embarked on its first tour under the auspices of Willard Alexander and the Music Corporation of America.The trip culminated in the now historic performance
on August 21 before a capacity crowd at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, which was broadcast nationwide to great critical and popular acclaim, and is often
cited as the beginning of the swing era.Later that year, while appearing at the Congress Hotel in Chicago, Goodman began a series of important early jazz concerts in America.In August 1936, the Benny Goodman Trio became a quartet with the
addition of Lionel Hampton.The success of these performances, attended by a large,
predominantly teenage audience, and the resultant publicity clearly demonstrated that Goodman was the "King of Swing" and a popular idol.On January 16, 1938,
Goodman brought a new level of recognition to jazz with a concert in Carnegie Hall, presenting Harry James, Ziggy Elman, Jess Stacy, Hampton, Krupa, and Wilson
from his own entourage, as well as guest soloists from the bands of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.In the same period, Goodman became the first famous jazz musician to achieve success performing classical repertory.His early training with Schoepp had
prepared him for this dual career by laying the foundation for a "legitimate" clarinet technique, which he continued to improve in later study with Reginald Kell.In
1935, he performed Mozart's Clarinet Quintet before an invited audience in the home of John Hammond, and three years later he recorded the work with the Budapest
String Quartet.In July 1940, illness forced Goodman to disband his group, and when he reformed it in October, changes in personnel gave the new band a different sound.Armed Forces Radio Service.Goodman, who retained his classic manner.In October 1949, Goodman disbanded the group on completion of his recording
contract with Capitol.The original Benny Goodman Trio was reunited for a benefit recording for Fletcher Henderson (1951) and a television appearance on NBC
(1953), and also appeared in a film based on Goodman's life, The Benny Goodman Story (1956).In the 1960s, Goodman expanded his role as jazz ambassador
with tours of South America (1961), the USSR (1962), and Japan (1964).During the 1960s and 1970s, he toured about half of each year, dividing his time between
appearances with small groups and increasingly frequent commitments to performing classical works.He was one of the five
recipients of the fifth annual Kennedy Center Honors awards in1982.Many of his recordings have been newly issued by Sunbeam, a label devoted largely to aspects
of his work.His collection of scores, recordings, and other materials was bequeathed to Yale University.His flawless solo improvisations set standards of excellence for jazz performance.He founded and directed the most
important musical organization of the swing era and helped to open a new epoch in American popular music.He was also among the first to feature black jazz players, an action that might have compromised his own career at a time
when racial integration was not a popular concept.His concerts brought a new audience and a new level of recognition to jazz.The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Oxford University Press.Copying or other reproduction is prohibited.His passion was music and his big band sound quickened the pulse of a generation ready to shrug off the Depression and dance.With clarinet in hand, Benny Goodman was transformed from a child in Chicago's impoverished Jewish ghetto into the king of swing, greeted with near pandemonium wherever his band played.Goodman led jazz into the commercial mainstream and brought with him an extraordinary group of gifted and original musicians.Band members Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton were some of the first to break the big band color barrier.Held together by the force of Goodman's personality and a willingness to put their music above all else, the Benny Goodman Band created a kingdom of swing with enthusiastic fans from coast to coast.It could have been a far different life, had destiny not intervened.Struggling to raise a family of eleven on sweatshop wages, Benny Goodman's father believed music might be a ticket out of poverty for his eldest sons.As a youth, he had frequented the jazz halls on the south side of Chicago, soaking in some of the greatest musicianship in the world.By the time he was fifteen, Goodman had dropped out of school and already established himself as a professional musician.It was then that the Ben Pollack Orchestra asked him to move to California and join the band.Goodman spent the late 1920s and early 1930s traveling the country playing in bands led by Red Nichols, Ben Selvin, and many others.In 1934, he got his first big break.These regular performances created a nationwide audience for his big band sound, and it was this audience that would eventually go wild for the Benny Goodman Band in live performances at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, the Congress Hotel in Chicago, and the Paramount Theater in New York.With the rise in popularity of beebop, came the virtual eclipse of big band and swing.Though no longer in as great demand, Benny Goodman continued to play the clarinet, forming and fronting big bands.Goodman at Big Bands
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