By there seemed little new for Benny Goodman to say musically. A major success 35 years earlier and the possessor of a briliant but unchanging clarinet style, BG was performing less during this period and his big-band projects generally emphasized re-creations of the past. This attractive but routine double LP (which does not list the personnel) features Goodman in a big band mostly 4/

One of my favorite Goodman live recordings is "St. Louis Blues" found on the KING OF SWING Columbia CL Lp, with Benny and Harry James alternating solos blowing the house up while Krupa really kicks them along; the studio version here is a shorter take, dictated by the time restraints of a 10" pop 78 RPM disc (pop 78s play time topped out /5().

AVID Entertainment are proud to present a new re-mastering of the truly legendary Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert in stunning sound quality for a recording of this vintage, helped no little by the wonderful acoustics of the theatre: sections that remained unissued for /5(56).

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Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, – June 13, ) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".. In the mids, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history Born: May 30, , Chicago, Illinois, U.S.