GET HAPPY: The Benny Goodman Big Band Sessions, 1934-36 Episode 5
Welcome to this series of three friends talking about music they love. The Benny Goodman band of 1937-8 has justifiably been the recipient of so much acclaim and analysis over the years that the music which led up to its achievement has been largely passed over. Not only are the recordings of 1934-36 worthy of another critical listen, in some ways they contain music equal to and, to our ears, sometimes superior to that of the band that climaxed at Carnegie Hall in January 1938. We start our comments by focusing on the rhythm section and then the band in general, and after that, we range very widely into all sorts of Goodmania. But opinions aside, please join us for some wonderful music (including many unissued and/or rare items) in-between all of the blather! Loren Schoenberg Hal Smith Nick Rossi
About Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially. From 1935 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectab...
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