A program being webcast tonight and tomorrow night by Jazz at Lincoln Center will explore the little-known story of the 1936 formation, by clarinetist Benny Goodman, of a racially integrated jazz ...

There had been earlier examples of recording sessions that brought together white and African-American jazz musicians, but few had the public impact of Benny Goodman’s 1936 recording of “Moonglow,” ...

In the U.S. popular music business, five years amounts to a cycle, and this week a cycle was completed: Band Leader Benny Goodman returned to his native Chicago. It was from Chicago, in 1936, that ...