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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington and Benjamin David ("Benny"') Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money-making veterans. Last week the Duke and Benny both made off-beat appearances...
...Benny Goodman made a long-heralded appearance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall as clarinet soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in Mozart's rippling Concerto in A Major, Debussy's First Rhapsody. No one should have been surprised. Trained in his youth by a Chicago Symphony clarinetist, Franz Schoepp, Benny Goodman can tootle with the two or three best in the world. Critics could find little fault with his playing of Mozart and Debussy-unless it was a slight excess of refinement and dignity...
...Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke by John Hammond, who is billed as "America's Greatest Jazz Authority." They're wrong, he's the second greatest. I'm the greatest ... Bela Bartok's Contrasts For Violin, Piano, and Clarinet, features Bartok, Szigeti, and Benny Goodman. This is awfully interesting stuff besides giving a pretty good idea of Benny's all round musical ability (COLUMBIA...
...full team is as follows: Left End Kuhn (Adams) Left Tackle Goodman (Kirkland) Left Guard May (Adams) Center Loomis (Winthrop) Right Guard Lowell (Winthrop) Right Trackle Healy (Loverett) Right End Murphy (Lowell) Back Santosuosso (Dudley) Back Culliton (Adams) Back Addington (Kirkland) Back Broderick (Dunster...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES: Four sides by Benny Goodman have finally come out on COLUMBIA, and they're everything you could ask for. First coupling is by the band: Nobody, and Henderson Stomp. Nobody is a swell pop tune sung by Helen Forest, who seems to be more and more influenced by Billie Holiday. The arrangement is very good; ideal for dancing. Henderson is typical orchestration by the arranger for whom the tune was named. Very unpretentious stuff, but the kind that really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny...