Benny Goodman

How To Use Benny Goodman In A Sentence

• It was recorded by the Haydn Quartet in 1905, Benny Goodman in 1935, and Les Paul multitracked it in 1951. Paul Morley's Showing Off… | Music
• According to jazz historian Leonard Feather, “Joe Marsala was responsible in his quiet and unpublicized way for more attempts at breaking down segregation in jazz than Benny Goodman.” A Renegade History of the United States
• Benny Goodman, the clarinet player who looked like a banker but whose sound swooped and soared like a bird, led a band that sparked a worldwide craze in the 30s.
• During the interwar years, it would have seemed absurd to separate the two, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman appeared on Broadway, Fats Waller and Ellington wrote extensively for the theater, and thousands of show tunes made their way into the jazz canon. New Duo For Jazz, Theater
• Benny Goodman, the clarinet player who looked like a banker but whose sound swooped and soared like a bird, led a band that sparked a worldwide craze in the 30s.
• Benny Goodman, who commissioned the work, saunters through it proprietorially.
• He went on to write arrangements for Count Basie and Benny Goodman, then forged an octette alliance with drummer Kenny Clarke. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 202
• And I liked that convention in Los Angeles, when we had the Benny Goodman reunion band play, and Louise forgot the words to ‘And the Angels Sing’ and Somebody on the Trumpet Section foozled Elman's solo so badly that a few members in the audience were seen slowly slipping to the floor.
• Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee. Intimate History