"featured Williams (drums); John McLaughlin (guitar); and Larry Young (organ). Some jazz trios: The American group Medeski Martin & Wood offers an organ trio variation whereby the guitarist is replaced by a bassist (Chris Wood). As early as 1935, Benny Goodman recorded in a trio format, featuring himself (clarinet), Teddy Wilson (piano) and Gene Krupa (drums). The Lester Young Trio of 1946 featured Young on tenor sax, Nat King Cole on piano and Buddy Rich on drums. In 1948, pianist Herman Blount (later known as Sun Ra) briefly played in a trio with Coleman Hawkins (saxophone) and Stuff Smith (violin),"
"Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986), best known as Benny Goodman, was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the ""King of Swing"". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups 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."" Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. During an era of"
"and with Dream Theater in their album ""Black Clouds & Silver Linings"". Goodman has also been a part of Billy Cobham's Spectrum 40 tour. With The Flock With Jan Hammer As a guest artist Jerry Goodman Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist who played electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Jerry Goodman was born on March 16, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were both members of the string section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his uncle was the noted composer and jazz pianist Marty Rubenstein. Jerry was"
"Jerry Goodman Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist who played electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Jerry Goodman was born on March 16, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were both members of the string section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his uncle was the noted composer and jazz pianist Marty Rubenstein. Jerry was trained in a conservatory before he began his musical career as The Flock's roadie and subsequently as a violinist. After his 1970 appearance on John McLaughlin's album ""My Goal's Beyond"", he became a member"
"aged 67. Hymie Shertzer Herman ""Hymie"" Shertzer or Schertzer (April 22, 1909 – March 22, 1977) was an American jazz saxophonist, best known for his long-term association with Benny Goodman. Shertzer was born in New York City, began playing violin when he was nine years old and picked up saxophone when he was a teenager. He worked as a sideman for Gene Kardos at the club Birdland, then joined Benny Goodman's band, where he was the lead saxophonist until 1938, though he recorded with Goodman intermittently until the mid-1940s. He was in Tommy Dorsey's band from 1938-1940, and also recorded"
"division of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. His papers were donated to Yale University after his death. He received honorary doctorates from Union College, the University of Illinois, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Bard College, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Harvard University, and Yale University. His music appeared in the documentary """" (2010) narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman. Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986), best known as Benny Goodman, was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the ""King of Swing"". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical"
"part of Benny Goodman's Boys, the instrumental was recorded on June 23, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and was released as a 78 by Brunswick with ""Jungle Blues"". Benny Goodman's Boys consisted of Miller on trombone, Tommy Dorsey on trombone, who is not on the ""Room 1411"" recording, Dick ""Icky"" Morgan on guitar, Bud Freeman on tenor saxophone, Harry Goodman on bass and tuba, Fud Livingston on clarinet and tenor saxophone, Wingy Manone on trumpet, Jimmy McPartland on cornet, Ben Pollack on drums, Vic Briedis on piano, Harry Goodman on bass and tuba, and Benny Goodman on clarinet, saxophone, and cornet."
"Ziggy Elman Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 – June 26, 1968), known professionally as Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his group Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. Elman was born in Philadelphia, but his family settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey when he was four. His father was a violinist who had hoped Elman would play violin. Although he did learn to play violin, he preferred brass instruments. He began playing for Jewish weddings and nightclubs at age 15. In 1932 made his first recording, playing the trombone. At some"
"Johnny Guarnieri John Albert ""Johnny"" Guarnieri (March 23, 1917 – January 7, 1985) was an American jazz and stride pianist, born in New York City. Guarnieri joined the George Hall orchestra in 1937. He is perhaps best known for his big band stints with Benny Goodman in 1939 and with Artie Shaw in 1940. Guarnieri is also noted for his embellishment and juxtaposition of jazz with classical piano, such as Scarlatti and Beethoven. Throughout the 1940s Guarnieri was a busy sideman, recording with artists such as Charlie Christian, Cozy Cole, Ike Quebec, Charlie Kennedy, Hank D'Amico and Ben Webster. He"
"included a blonde 1959 ES-350T, which in his later years he no longer owned. He played a cherry sunburst Gibson ES-137 Classic in concerts and while touring. In October 2007, Beecher performed as a special guest of the Rib House Band at the Bridgeport Rib House in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. Franny Beecher was the lead guitarist in the Benny Goodman Orchestra in 1948-49. He appeared on The Toast of the Town show (which later became The Ed Sullivan Show) on CBS television with the Benny Goodman band in December, 1948. He is featured on two Benny Goodman albums, ""Modern Benny"" on"
"terminology describing Jewishness being a strike as well as African heritage. Benny Goodman was a vital Jewish American to the progression of Jazz to where it is today. His jazz concert in the Carnegie Hall in 1938 was the first ever to be played there. The concert was described by 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."" Goodman was leading a band named King of Swing, which was integrated. This was a big deal at the time as it was during segregation. However,"
"Benny Goodman orchestra. In the 1970s, he continued performing in house orchestras and lounges in Las Vegas. He also recorded with Louie Bellson, Bill Watrous, and Supersax. It was not until 1975 that Fontana recorded an album as an ensemble co-leader. He shared the billing for this record, ""The Hanna-Fontana Band: Live at Concord"" (Concord Jazz) with drummer Jake Hanna. Fontana toured in Japan with this ensemble. In 1978 he was featured on the jazz trombone recording ""Bobby Knight's Great American Trombone Company"", with Charles Loper, Lew McCreary, Frank Rosolino, Phil Teele, and Bobby Knight. In the 1980s, he appeared"
"Hymie Shertzer Herman ""Hymie"" Shertzer or Schertzer (April 22, 1909 – March 22, 1977) was an American jazz saxophonist, best known for his long-term association with Benny Goodman. Shertzer was born in New York City, began playing violin when he was nine years old and picked up saxophone when he was a teenager. He worked as a sideman for Gene Kardos at the club Birdland, then joined Benny Goodman's band, where he was the lead saxophonist until 1938, though he recorded with Goodman intermittently until the mid-1940s. He was in Tommy Dorsey's band from 1938-1940, and also recorded in the"
"The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings is a 1997 compilation 3-CD set of sessions led by jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, and recorded for the RCA Victor label between 1935 and 1939. Writing for ""Allmusic"" Scott Yanow called it ""Classic music with many exciting moments from the King of Swing and his famous sidemen"". ""JazzTimes"" writer Jack Sohmer stated ""From a strictly musical point of view, the importance of these recordings cannot be overestimated. Goodman was then, as he is still now remembered, the prevailing master of swinging, inventive, hot clarinet and he"
"end of the year. After Ellington added more personnel in 1928, Carney's main instrument became the baritone saxophone. He was a dominant figure on the baritone in jazz, with no serious rivals on the instrument until the advent of bebop in the mid-1940s. Within the overall sound of the Ellington band, Carney's baritone was often employed to play parts of harmonies that were above the obvious low pitching of the instrument; this altered the textures of the band's sound. In January 1938, Carney was invited to play with Benny Goodman's band at Carnegie Hall. Recordings from this event were released"
"musical instrument, described in the novel, and is performed by Patrick Stewart in the director's cut of the film. Emmett Chapman Emmett Chapman (born September 28, 1936) is an American jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of the Chapman Stick family of instruments. Chapman started his career as a guitarist, recording and performing in the late 1960s. He played with Barney Kessel and Tim Buckley before leading his own band. In 1969, Chapman modified his homemade nine-string ""Freedom Guitar"" to accommodate his ""Free Hands"" tapping method. Although some guitarists had done two-handed tapping"
"era was from “the King of Swing” Benny Goodman's performance at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21, 1935, bringing the music to the rest of the country. The 1930s also became the era of other great soloists: the tenor saxists Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry and Lester Young; the alto saxists Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges; the drummers Chick Webb, Gene Krupa, Cozy Cole and Sid Catlett; the pianists Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson; the trumpeters Roy Eldridge, Bunny Berigan, and Rex Stewart. Music experimentation has always been popular in America. Developments in dance orchestras and jazz music"
"classic style. Benny Goodman Today Benny Goodman Today is a jazz compilation album by Benny Goodman. It was released in 1970 and features big band and small group selections recorded during a concert in Stockholm, Sweden. It was released in the United States on the London Records label (London SPB 21, 2-LP set) as a ""phase 4 stereo spectacular"". The album, as issued, has a few shortcomings, among them a failure to list the band personnel, despite a double gatefold album with an included booklet full of band photos. And some of the band arrangements are new, and rather uncharacteristic"
"two nations after the Cuban missile crisis and the end of that phase of the Cold War; both visits were part of efforts to normalize relations between the United States and the USSR. The Bolshoi Ballet came to the United States, and the Benny Goodman Orchestra toured the USSR. Members of the band included Jimmy Knepper, Jerry Dodgion, and Turk Van Lake (Vanig Hovsepian). Goodman was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After winning polls as best jazz clarinetist, Goodman was inducted into the ""Down Beat"" Jazz Hall of Fame in 1957. He was a member of the radio"
"Jess Stacy Jesse Alexandria Stacy (August 11, 1904 – January 1, 1995) was an American jazz pianist who gained prominence during the swing era. He is perhaps best known for his years with the Benny Goodman band during the late 1930s, particularly his performance at Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert in 1938. Stacy was born in Bird's Point, Missouri, a small town across the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois. His first piano teacher was Mabel Irene Bailey, who played piano for silent movies. In 1918 Stacy moved to Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He eceived his only formal music training with Clyde Brandt,"
"Goodman's tenor sax player Jerry Jerome and then-local bassist Oscar Pettiford. Taking multiple solos, Christian shows much the same improvisational skills later captured on the Minton's and Monroe's recordings in 1941, suggesting that he had already matured as a musician. The Minneapolis recordings include ""Stardust"", ""Tea for Two"", and ""I've Got Rhythm"", the latter a favorite of bop composers and jammers. Further examples of Christian's bebop playing can be heard in a series of recordings made at Minton's Playhouse, an after-hours club located in the Hotel Cecil, at 210 West 118th Street in Harlem, by Jerry Newman, a student at"
"Orchestra With Ben Webster With Trio Johnny Guarnieri John Albert ""Johnny"" Guarnieri (March 23, 1917 – January 7, 1985) was an American jazz and stride pianist, born in New York City. Guarnieri joined the George Hall orchestra in 1937. He is perhaps best known for his big band stints with Benny Goodman in 1939 and with Artie Shaw in 1940. Guarnieri is also noted for his embellishment and juxtaposition of jazz with classical piano, such as Scarlatti and Beethoven. Throughout the 1940s Guarnieri was a busy sideman, recording with artists such as Charlie Christian, Cozy Cole, Ike Quebec, Charlie Kennedy,"
"leaving the New York City Ballet Orchestra in 1986. Many of his students became prominent clarinetists themselves and teachers in the United States and other countries. Former students currently occupy chairs in the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Milwaukee Symphony and include noted soloist Jon Manasse and jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern, who initially studied saxophone in the same building that Weber taught in, only to become mesmerized by the sound of the clarinet playing coming from Weber's studio. The jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman also studied under Weber, who claimed Goodman never paid him and took his best reeds."
"age 16 at the Wurlitzer Music Store with the intention of becoming a clarinet player. Only later did she also learn to play the tenor and baritone saxophone. Latto met Benny Goodman personally in 1943, and she acknowledges the active role he played as her mentor. He introduced her to the jazz scene in the New York area by inviting her to attend band rehearsals and shows, where she met many of the band's musicians backstage. According to Zena Latto, Lester Young helped her purchase her first tenor saxophone, a Conn, the same brand he used. In an interview from"
"jazz, beginning with the New Orleans players in the 1910s. It remained a signature instrument of jazz music through much of the big band era into the 1940s. American players Alphonse Picou, Larry Shields, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Sidney Bechet were all pioneers of the instrument in jazz. The B soprano was the most common instrument, but a few early jazz musicians such as Louis Nelson Delisle and Alcide Nunez preferred the C soprano, and many New Orleans jazz brass bands have used E soprano. Swing clarinetists such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman led successful big"
"bankrupt. He later worked in a music store and taught trumpet to some up-and-coming musicians. He died in 1968 at 54 and was buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. With Benny Goodman With Tommy Dorsey Ziggy Elman Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 – June 26, 1968), known professionally as Ziggy Elman, was an American jazz trumpeter associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his group Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. Elman was born in Philadelphia, but his family settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey when he was four. His father was a violinist who"
"Bud Freeman Lawrence ""Bud"" Freeman (April 13, 1906 – March 15, 1991) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer, known mainly for playing the tenor saxophone, but also able at the clarinet. He had a smooth and full tenor sax style with a heavy robust swing. He was one of the most influential and important jazz tenor saxophonists of the big band era. His major recordings were ""The Eel"", ""Tillie's Downtown Now"", ""Crazeology"", ""The Buzzard"", and ""After Awhile"", composed with Benny Goodman. Freeman was born on April 13, 1906, in Chicago. In 1922, he and some friends from high"
"the clarinetist Achille Baquet played and recorded in Durante's Original New Orleans Jazz Band (1918–1920); the second was the violinist Arthur Hand, who led The California Ramblers, which, from 1922 to 1925, included the trumpeter Bill Moore, who was billed as the Hot Hawaiian; the third was Ben Bernie, whose band from 1925 to 1928 also featured Moore. Goodman became the fourth by bringing in Teddy Wilson on piano in 1935 and Lionel Hampton on vibraphone in 1936. Goodman hired Christian to play with the newly formed Goodman Sextet in September 1939. It has been claimed that Goodman was initially"
"Billy Hart With Keith Jarrett With Leroy Jenkins With Pat Metheny With Paul Motian With Roswell Rudd & The Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Clifford Thornton & The Jazz Composers Orchestra With Randy Weston With Matt Wilson With Dane Belany With Michel Benita General references Inline citations Dewey Redman Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett. Redman played tenor saxophone, though he occasionally played alto saxophone, the Chinese ""suona"" (which he called a musette), and clarinet. His son is saxophonist"
"Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald; his arrangements can be heard on Fitzgerald's album ""Lullabies of Birdland"". He and Yank Lawson formed the Lawson-Haggart Band, and they also led the World's Greatest Jazz Band from 1968–1978. He appeared at jazz festivals until his death on December 2, 1998 in Venice, Florida. Bob Haggart Robert Sherwood Haggart (March 13, 1914 – December 2, 1998) was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer, and arranger. Although he is associated with dixieland, he was one of the finest rhythm bassists of the Swing Era. In 1935, Haggart became a member of the Bob Crosby"
"release. The higher quality metal masters were used for subsequent CD remasters. According to ""Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert"" at jitterbuzz.com: ""There never would have been a recording of the concert if Albert Marx had not taken the initiative. Marx was married to Helen Ward, who was Benny's vocalist from 1934-1937. He decided to record the concert as an anniversary present for Helen. Two copies were ordered, one for Helen and one for Benny. At the time, recording technology was still in a fairly primitive state. Only three RCA 44BX microphones were used, one above the conductor's podium and"
"Boomie Richman Abraham Samuel ""Boomie"" Richman (born April 2, 1922 in Brockton, Massachusetts) was a jazz tenor saxophone player. He was noted for playing with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra at the height of the Big Band era. Richman played a Selmer Tenor Mark VI saxophone. He used a baritone reed with a wide flare, and his tone was described on more than one occasion as, ""a very expensive sound."" He also played the clarinet, bass clarinet, piccolo, and flute. Bands Richman played with included Mugsy Spanier, Les Elgart, George Paxton and His Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. He played"
"jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt and the jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman, by listening to a friend’s records of these musicians. He also listened to the tango music of Ástor Piazzolla's Orquesta Típica on Radio Splendid. Arriving in Buenos Aires in 1947, he studied medicine for five years until music took over his life and he became part of the bop generation centred on the ""Bop Club Argentino"". This venue was frequented by the Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri, the Argentine pianist Lalo Schifrin and Rubén López Furst. It was here that the first attempts to development modern"