Benny Goodman's January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert is considered the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music, held right in that throne room of musical respectability, Carnegie Hall. The 1950-vintage three-album set from the concert only solidified its reputation, and an earlier CD release derived from the LP master was a choice entry in the Goodman catalog for more than ten years. For the 1999 release, p...   [ read more ]

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In so many ways these small-group recordings by bandleader and clarinetist extraordinaire Benny Goodman from 1935-1939 are his most satisfying. Here, along with pianist Teddy Wilson and drummer Gene Krupa, Goodman got to the essence of his trademark brand of hot swing. The first four sides here are with that trio and they are simply glorious. As the years passed, Goodman added and subtracted members, who included vocalists Helen Humes and Martha Tilton, Lionel Hampton, drummer {$...   [ read more ]

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