Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-inch shelf of jazz literature has been considerably increased in the last few weeks by Winthrop Sargeant's anatomy, Jazz: Hot and Hybrid, and Wilder Hobson's up-to-date critique, American Jazz Music. Last week a biography was added to the shelf-Benny Goodman's and Irving Kolodin's The Kingdom of Swing*-which reveals nearly all there is to reveal about Mr. Goodman's life and four-four time...
...interest mainly to aficionados of America's native rhythm, the Goodman biography provides a play-by-play account of the only jazz artist who, without once compromising with tinhorn commercialism, battled his way up from tootling in a synagogue to running his own band. The book also functions as a sort of Who's Who in hot music. In his 20 years in the business, Goodman has worked with or heard and known all the best players...
Expressing the University's appreciation for the gift, Jackson told Goodman and the grinding cameramen that the Library intends to get a complete collection of all available material on swing...
Seventy jazz records and two record albums, personal gifts from Benny Goodman, "King of Swing", to the University to encourage the study of swing and other types of American music, were received Saturday by Mrs. Lillian Hall, custodian of the Theatre Collection in Widener Library...
...department of theory and composition of the New York Philharmonic Scholarship School and for the past year the editor in charge of TIME'S music department (but not of this review), Winthrop Sargeant is not concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant...