DRUMS WEEK 2025: Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. The Benny ...

Carnegie Hall, New York City, 16 January 1938. An eager audience is keyed up with excitement, awaiting the first jazz concert at this prestigious classical music venue. At one time every drummer in ...

Lorry Black first fell in love with Benny Goodman’s album “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert” at band camp when he was just 14 years old. Sixteen years later, Black, the associate director of ...

Benny Goodman Orchestra’s 1943 concert at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site will be commemorated with a Big Band concert there featuring Simply Swing on Saturday, July 13. Dance lessons ...

TROY -- Tribute bands have long roamed through the rock 'n' roll world. Concert review "Benny Goodman: A Carnegie Hall Tribute" featuring the Brooks Tegler Orchestra When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday Where: ...

(CBS 11) - Benny Goodman is recognized today as one of the most outstanding musicians and band leaders of the big band era of late 1930s and 1940s. Through his hard work and that of his band, he ...

Eighty years ago this month, legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, made history with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman ...

Inviting the Benny Goodman band to Carnegie Hall in early 1938 had the vaguely sarcastic aura of suggesting that hungry street urchins be served dinner at the Stork Club. It was all right for them to ...

The concert opens with the familiar Goodman theme song "Let's Dance" and follows with the up-tempo "Air Mail Special" showcasing first the maestro and then Norvo, Phillips, and the rest of the band.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. And swing is coming to Naperville with the Julian Bliss Septet. The ’30s and ’40s-era swing band performs “A Tribute to Benny Goodman” at 8 p.m.

Now that Benny Goodman’s night at Carnegie Hall is largely beyond the sentimental gravitation of nostalgia and no one is left alive who can speak of it from memory, it runs the risk of becoming small.