Swing, swing, swing : the life & times of Benny Goodman

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Before Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll, another King ruled the roost of American popular music. His name was Benny Goodman and his domain, the gilded age of Swing. Benny's concerts, records, and radio shows catapulted the hot and controversial sounds of jazz into the hearts and homes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Firestone, Ross
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, ©1993.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Goodman, Benny, > 1909-1986.
Clarinetists > United States > Biography.
Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.
Clarinettistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Musiciens de jazz > États-Unis > Biographies.
Clarinetists.
Jazz musicians.
Jazz.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The kid in short pants
  • The two Bennys
  • The free-lance years
  • Ain'tcha glad?
  • Music hall rag
  • Let's dance 1
  • Let's dance 2
  • Big band, small band
  • On the road for MCA
  • Swing is here
  • Making it
  • Return to the Palomar
  • Dancing in the aisles
  • Carnegie jump
  • Farewell blues
  • What swing really does to people
  • Contrasts
  • The changes made
  • The hour of parting
  • Benny rides again
  • Alice
  • Wartime
  • Benny's bop
  • The Kell interlude
  • Carnegie Hall revisited
  • The Benny Goodman story
  • On the road again
  • Mission to Moscow
  • September song
  • Good-bye.

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