The clarinet, valued for its versatility, range and pure sinusoidal timbre, has enjoyed the attention of many of classical music’s greatest composers. Earning substantial credibility as a serious solo ...

RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...

Benny Goodman, like Duke Ellington, lived nine musical lives. Goodman started recording in 1926 with Ben Pollack, and by the late 1920s was already established as a jazz clarinet virtuoso. In 1929, ...

He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...

DECATUR — Remember the Benny Goodman clarinet sound? A young, remarkably accomplished Dave Bennett is bringing it to Decatur. Bennett leads a quartet into the Decatur Club for a Juvae Jazz Society ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This clarinet was made by ...

Goodman played the clarinet even "during the commercial breaks of the World Series," according to one of his daughters. Bettmann / Corbis In the hierarchy of musical instruments, the clarinet tends to ...