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 ...
Nearly 75 years after Benny Goodman’s legendary Carnegie Hall concert brought jazz official respectability alongside classical music, Irvin Mayfield brought the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to the same ...
Title on container: The famous 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert. Automatic sequence. Program notes ([3] p.) by Irving Kolodin on container. Performer(s): Jazz ensembles, featuring Benny Goodman, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new podcast explores an array of items from the 133-year-old hall’s archive, like Ella Fitzgerald’s glasses and an opening-night ticket. By Javier C ...
What did they think, that evening of January 16, 1938, sitting in the hallowed grounds of European musical culture, when Benny Goodman and his “Swing Orchestra” (as they were billed in the program) ...