This CD contains previously unreleased performances by Benny Goodman that were originally recorded for the Armed Forces Radio Service during 1945-46. Four selections feature...
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This CD traces the evolution of Benny Goodman's orchestra from the beginning of 1935 when they were comparatively unknown to the beginning of July when they were on the...
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The first half of this chronological release of Benny Goodman's 1931-1933 recordings is comprised of dance band performances from 1931 -- 12 selections with vocals from Paul...
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With the exception of the final two titles, all of the music on this CD is from 1934, a period when Benny Goodman first formed his big band and appeared regularly on the...
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This CD reissues the first 22 selections led by Benny Goodman, spanning a three-year period when the clarinetist developed into a greatly in-demand studio musician during...
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After a historic up-and-down, cross-country trip to Los Angeles, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra became a sensation, launching the swing era. This set has the first selections...
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This four-CD box set from the European TCB label releases for the first time the music from four Benny Goodman concerts. The great clarinetist is heard at two nostalgic...
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For this fairly rare live session (reissued on CD with one extra selection), Benny Goodman heads a nonet that includes some all-stars (trombonist George Masso, Al Klink on...
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This two-CD set from the French RCA Jazz Tribune series (a straight reissue of a two-LP set) has the first 30 recordings by Benny Goodman and His Trio and his Quartet,...
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One doesn't often think of the Goodman band as a repository for great singers, but over the course of the 1940s, the King of Swing framed the band around some vocalists who...
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The most popular band not only in jazz but in popular music at the time, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra continued to grow in strength from session to session. The Benny...
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One of the most beloved jazz groups of all time was the original Benny Goodman Quartet which featured Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa. Despite its fame, the unit...
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During 1947-49 on an irregular basis, clarinetist Benny Goodman's band recorded bebop for Capitol before he permanently switched back to swing in 1950. All of BG's small...
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This short ten-track collection of Goodman standards includes tracks like "Let's Dance," "Moonglow," "Jersey Bounce" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," but includes no...
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Here's a delightful double-disc set chronicling all the important recordings Goodman made with his big band in 1938 and 1939, the last two years of his contract with RCA...
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This Is Jazz, Vol. 4 isn't an ideal overview of Benny Goodman's seminal Columbia recordings, but it isn't bad, either. Many of the featured 16 songs are among Goodman's very...
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Two complete Camel Caravan broadcasts by Benny Goodman from 1938 are compiled on this Jazz Hour CD. In addition to the numerous performances by the orchestra, singer Martha...
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The music of the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartets (with the clarinetist, pianist Teddy Wilson, drummer Gene Krupa and sometimes vibraphonist Lionel Hampton) has been put out...
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The Best of Benny Goodman: The Capitol Years is an excellent 18-track overview of the clarinetist's stint at Capitol. He recorded for the label between 1944 and 1955, during...
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It should be embarrassing to the major labels that unauthorized European collections like this are an essential part of the American marketplace -- and that 15 years into...
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A fine all-around single CD, it sums up Benny Goodman's 1935-1939 period on Victor. During this time BG became jazz's and popular music's number one attraction, achieving...
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Although it has been superceded by the remastered, more extensively researched, and longer running Live at Carnegie Hall: 1938 Complete, this two-CD set issued in 1987 is...
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In 1978, Benny Goodman celebrated the 40th anniversary of his original pioneering Carnegie Hall concert with an anniversary performance at the palace of classical music....
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This two-CD set was originally issued as a deluxe multi-disc set in Columbia's Masterwork series and was intended as a companion piece to Goodman's best-selling Live at...
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In 1950, Benny Goodman formed a new sextet, and although he used a big band for some recordings, the small group was his main outlet for the next couple of years. This CD...
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The fifth volume of material taken from the tapes that Benny Goodman willed to Yale's Music Library is, for no particular reason, a double-CD set. Two separate and somewhat...
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The eighth volume of previously unreleased material willed by Benny Goodman to Yale continues the series with some very interesting selections. Martha Tilton gets to redo...
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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...
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A really cool CD, and one of the better Goodman volumes, despite its 16 songs being drawn from across five years (1941-46). Most of the material is instrumental (although...
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Over the course of Benny Goodman's career, the stars often lined up right and he found himself working in tandem with someone every bit as talented as he, whether it was...
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When Peggy Lee made her first recording with Benny Goodman's orchestra, she was 19 and scared to death. The result, "Elmer's Tune," is one she probably wished were lost, but...
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The 1937 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra are still considered one of the top big bands ever. With a trumpet section featuring Harry James, Ziggy Elman, and Chris Griffin;...
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The addition of Harry James to Benny Goodman & His Orchestra in January 1937 gave Benny Goodman one of the greatest trumpet sections ever with James, Ziggy Elman, and Chris...
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Benny Goodman was busy during the three-and-a-half-month period covered by this CD, cutting 22 selections for Victor including "Margie," "Bumble Bee Stomp," "My Honey's...
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Intercontinental's Golden Hits is a budget-priced collection of re-recordings of such hits as "Stardust," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "How High the Moon," "Don't Be That Way,"...
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This first volume in a series of broadcasts originating from the Madhattan Ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City date from the fall of 1937. The transcription...
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This entry from Sunbeam's 12-LP series of Benny Goodman broadcasts from late 1937 is highlighted by "One O'Clock Jump," the trio's "Body and Soul" and the quartet's "Sweet...
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When one thinks of Benny Goodman's small groups, it is generally his original Trio and Quartet (with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa) or his sextet with Charlie...
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"One O'Clock Jump," "Basin Street Blues," "Star Dust," "Anything for You" and "Thanks for the Memory" are among the highlights of this Benny Goodman anthology. ~ Jason...
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This live CD featuring Benny Goodman leading a tentet (sometimes reduced to a sextet or septet) with vibraphonist Red Norvo, trombonist Bill Harris, trumpeter Jack Sheldon,...
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This four-CD set is a treasure trove of wartime Benny Goodman activity, containing 68 tracks recorded or released on behalf of the Navy V-Disc program. In addition to the...
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During the period covered by this CD, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra reached the height of their success with their historic January 12, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert. Shortly...
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This is one of the more unusual live CDs by Benny Goodman, recorded in December 1956 over two days in Bangkok, Thailand. He leads a 13-piece group, which includes Budd...
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Although Benny Goodman came to fame as leader of a big swinging orchestra, from nearly the beginning he always allocated some time to playing with smaller groups. On July...
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By virtue of both its content and the implication of its title, Air Play is the perfect companion disc to Columbia's double-disc On the Air set. Drawn from the personal...
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On this all-around excellent CD, Benny Goodman performs a dozen selections (mostly Fletcher Henderson arrangements) with a big band filled with sympathetic players in 1954...
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This 11-song CD (and LP) is a kind of "best-of" Benny Goodman's work on the London label, for which he recorded during the 1970s. Confined to a small group setting (with a...
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Goodman leads a big band again for the majority of this album with few surprises. The instrumentals (all standards except for the recent "Stereo Stomp") are fine but the...
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Consumer advisory: In 1955, Universal Pictures released The Benny Goodman Story, starring Steve Allen. Goodman himself played the music in the film (which consisted of...
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Although the cover gives the impression that this Hep compilation features clarinetists Benny Goodman and Stan Hasselgård together with tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray, the...
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Best of the Big Bands is a solid 16-track collection that contains a smattering of Goodman's familiar work, including "Riffin' the Scotch," "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't...
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The 1992 Benny Goodman disc entitled Best of the Big Bands contains 16-tracks from Goodman's Columbia big-band recordings, including such staples "What's New?," "How High...
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Two broadcasts of Benny Goodman's Camel Caravan radio shows, minus most of the commercials, and singer Martha Tilton (who was ill) are featured on this CD compilation....
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Columbia's Greatest Hits is a solid collection boasting the most familiar versions of such Benny Goodman hits as "Let's Dance," "Clarinet a La King," "Jersey Bounce,"...
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More recent Goodman material, recorded in 1970 with a specially assembled big band on one of his periodic State Department tours. There's nothing particularly great here,...
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A 1960 reissue featuring the classic swing material by the Benny Goodman orchestra. It's since been supplanted by better remastered and more authoritative and comprehensive...
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In his will, Benny Goodman gave to Yale not only all of his band arrangements (over 1, 500) but 400 ten-inch master tapes of unreleased studio and concert recordings. Some...
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The second CD to be compiled from the valuable tapes that Benny Goodman willed to Yale features one of his strongest groups from the '50s, a septet with trumpeter Ruby...
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The third volume in this important series taken from tapes willed by Benny Goodman to the Yale Music Library focuses on the big band he took to Europe in 1958, a tour that...
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This fourth volume of material culled from the tapes willed by Benny Goodman to The Yale University Music Library contains a variety of big-band performances taken from no...
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This is the first of eight double LPs that contain all of Benny Goodman's output for Victor during his remarkable 1935-39 period. After recording "King Porter Stomp" and...
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The fourth of eight volumes (all are two-LP sets) documenting Benny Goodman's highly influential Victor studio sides, the 1936-37 period covered by this set found BG's...
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It was during the period covered by this two-fer that Benny Goodman played his famous Carnegie Hall concert and his orchestra reached its peak. This fifth of eight two-LP...
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This sixth of eight two-LP sets documenting Benny Goodman's Victor studio recordings finds BG in his post-Gene Krupa era. The classic trumpet section of Harry James, Ziggy...
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The seventh volume of music taken from the hundreds of tapes that Benny Goodman willed to Yale University covers a period of time when The King of Swing used pickup...
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This three-CD set includes all of the Benny Goodman big band's recordings from April 1935 through November 1936, a period when the orchestra became the most popular and...
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One of the most interesting bands led by Benny Goodman after the end of the swing era was the forgotten septet featured on this CD. It was essentially a sextet co-led by...
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The music on this CD has been reissued several times, including once previously on a Bluebird CD. This was the first full reunion in the studios of the Benny Goodman Quartet...
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This valuable CD contains performances from 1943-46 originally recorded for World War II servicemen. VJC has fleshed out the original recordings with alternate takes and...
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This is a really cool mid-price collection, the first of two assembling all of the Goodman band's work with Harry James. There are 21 tracks, covering a 13-month period that...
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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 of...
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This second of two CDs reissuing all of Benny Goodman's Trio and Quartet recordings for Victor starts out with eight performances co-starring the magical team of...
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CD reissue of some early '30s material that doesn't feature clarinetist Benny Goodman in a leadership role. Instead, he's in bands under the direction of Red Nichols, Arthur...
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16 Most Requested Songs is a midline-priced collection that spotlights many of Goodman's best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records, including "Let's...
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You can't tell from the album cover or the annotations, but this import CD presents 22 recordings from an eight-month period in Benny Goodman's career, December 1940-August...
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For his 1959 European tour, clarinetist Benny Goodman led one of his finest postwar bands, a ten-piece with such notables as trumpeter Jack Sheldon, trombonist Bill Harris,...
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In the days before he was the King of Swing, Benny Goodman had a struggling band that played hot jazz like a small combo; they were too wild and loud for the ballrooms that...
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GRP's Swingsation sampler may not satisfy collectors and hardcore fans, who already have these 14 featured songs on original albums or comprehensive collections....
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The Complete Captiol Trios is a long-overdue reissue of the five trio sessions Benny Goodman led for Capitol Records. The five sessions are easily broken down into two...
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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...
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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" party to the...
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This CD traces Benny Goodman & His Orchestra during their final Victor recordings and their first sessions for the Columbia label. The band did not change all that much...
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To a certain extent, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra were treading water during this period. Harry James and Teddy Wilson both departed to lead their own bands in early 1939...
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1939 was most significant in Benny Goodman's history for the discovery of electric guitarist Charlie Christian, who became a part of the clarinetist's new sextet with Lionel...
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These live airchecks follow Goodman through a regrouping period after the 1938-39 defections, through his group's temporary disbandment, and then through another regrouping...
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Falling in Love With Benny Goodman is part of RCA's mid-line Falling in Love With series, which focuses on romantic highlights from classic big-band, swing, and jazz...
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This album features live recordings from 1937 and 1938, when Benny Goodman's quartet was one of the most popular bands in the world. Partially fueled by Goodman's...
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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...
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The Benny Goodman library hasn't been well treated by RCA-BMG, especially in the area of mid-priced compilations -- there were too many reissues done in the late '80s and...
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One of the greatest concerts ever captured on record is in itself a turning point in the way jazz is judged by outsiders. Never before had a full jazz concert been held at...
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Benny Goodman's The King of Swing is part of RCA's mid-line series Bluebird's Best. This is a solid collection of original hits Goodman recorded for Bluebird in the mid- to...
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What makes the Benny Goodman chapter in the RCA/Bluebird Centennial Collection series worthwhile is, in this case, the bonus DVD. While every volume in the series has one,...
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