Benny Goodman

Also known as Benjamin David Goodman, Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman

American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)

OverviewAI-generated

Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman in Chicago in 1909, was an American composer, conductor, bandleader, and clarinetist. He worked in the jazz and swing genres, beginning his professional career in 1926. His musical output included recordings for Bluebird Records, Capitol Records, Chess Records, and Columbia Records. Notable works associated with him include *The kingdom of swing*, *Benny, king of swing*, and *The fabulous swing collection*.

Goodman received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honors, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died of a myocardial infarction in New York City in 1986.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1909
Died: 1986
Works: 55

Top works

The kingdom of swing
National Symphony Orchestra, 11th season, 3rd special concert
Benny, king of swing
The fabulous swing collection
Carnegie Hall jazz concert

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Film & TV

Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA

The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with the orchestras of Bix Beiderbecke, Jules Herbuveaux, Arnold Johnson and Ben Pollack, and also played in Broadway theater orchestras. He began to lead his own orchestras in 1934 at the Billy Rose…

Known for

Charlie Parker: Bird Songs — Self (archive footage)2022
Legends in Concert: Benny Goodman2004
Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett2001
Jazz — Self (archive footage)2001
The Sid Caesar Collection: The Magic of Live TV — Self (archive footage)2000
Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion2000
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing — Self (archive footage)1993
Åke Hasselgård story1983
Mitzi... What's Hot, What's Not — Self1978
The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1909
Active to: 1986

bandleaderbig bandclarinetistclassicalcomposerjazz

Discography

Member of

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 750,770
Total plays: 7,579,255

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

<tt>emcee</tt>: The MCMC Hammer
· 2013 · cited 12,249x
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note
· 1997 · cited 11,897x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,231x
Difference-in-differences with variation in treatment timing
· 2021 · cited 6,817x
The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
· 1989 · cited 6,458x

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Music

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Official website

Home - Benny Goodman

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Encyclopedic overview

Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".

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 'respectable' music."

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