In this story time, we dive into the rise of Benny Goodman and the explosive birth of the swing era. From his childhood in ...

The Kiel Municipal Band opens its 98th season April 10 with the 'Let’s Dance' spring concert at the Kiel High School Performing Arts Center.

Bandleader Benny Goodman was born 100 years ago Saturday. Raised in Chicago, Goodman rose from poverty to become a virtuoso clarinetist and the poster boy for the Swing Era. Along the way, Goodman's ...

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Title on container: The famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert. Automatic sequence. Program notes ([3] p.) by Irving Kolodin on container. Performer(s): Jazz ensembles, featuring Benny Goodman, ...

Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999. DAVID ...

IT’S a tough life for people with neat minds who like to put everything into categories. Nothing seems to want to be classified any more except, possibly, Marion Cooley’s Sunday nights at the Pierre, ...