The Benny Goodman Centennial is in full swing with the complete Yale recordings offered for the first time ever. Goodman, born in 1909, left thousands of [more]
Ever wonder what the best-selling early jazz recordings were? A remarkable series of 100 CDs that form the Jazz in the Charts program reissues all of the [more]
Strange as it may seem, it used to be common for jazz recordings to make it on the best-seller charts. Many of the hits are still known today while some are [more]
The Jazz in the Charts series, which is imported from Europe, is a most unique reissue series. In all it consists of 100 CDs that contain every hit jazz [more]
The Big Band Era ended in 1946, but the music still lives on. Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw and Harry [more]
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Sleep; Sometimes I'm Happy; Rosetta; Dark Shadows; Tea for Two; Deacon and the Elder; I Want to Be Happy; Someone to [more]
The Fabulous Benny Goodman is part of RCA's 1999 Fabulous series, which compiles hits and highlights from the RCA recordings of famous swing and big-band artists, like Benny [more]
Benny Goodman's volume in the Ken Burns Jazz series ranges from one of his first recording appearances, on a 1927 side by Ben Pollack, all the way to the late '50s. Of the 22 tracks, [more]
Benny Goodman was enjoying a much deserved retirement when he was contacted by PBS, who wanted to create a program on his life and music. A feature of that [more]
One of Benny Goodman's greatest combos was the sextet that he led in 1945. With Red Norvo on vibes, either Teddy Wilson or Mel Powell on piano and the humming bass solos [more]
Much more coherent than the first LP in this series (R 139615), Volume II consists of 16 of Benny Goodman's studio recordings for Columbia that date from late 1939 through [more]
A really cool CD, and one of the better Goodman volumes, despite its 16 songs being drawn from across five years (1941-1946). Most of the material is instrumental [more]
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Let's Dance; Bugle Call Rag; On the Sunny Side of the Street; 'Deed I Do; Who Cares; Blue Skies; I Want a [more]
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Happy Session Blues; Autumn Nocturne; Oh Baby; What a Diff'rence a Day Made; Oh Gee, Oh Joy; The Earl; More [more]
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans; There is No Greater Love; [more]
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It's All Right With Me; Willow Weep for Me; My Little Grass Shack; Too Many Tears; Easy to Love; Who; Sweet Leilani; Song of the [more]
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Vol. 9 (TT: 74:18): After You've Gone; Body and Soul; Nice Work If You Can Get It; The World is Waiting for the Sunrise; [more]
"The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn't gone out yet." —Whitney Ballient in The New Yorker, 12/28/77
Late in his life, Benny Goodman willed his private tapes to Yale University. Over time, ten CDs were put out of previously [more]
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" [more]