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Benny Goodman and the Swing Era /
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989Table of Contents: “…The family -- The musical apprentice -- The rise of the American dance band -- Pollack Orchestra -- Influences on Goodman -- First recordings -- The Free Lance -- Enter John Hammond -- The Free-Lance recordings -- Goodman forms a band -- First Victor records -- Making it at the Palomar -- Finally, success -- Swing-band phenomenon -- The Victor classics -- The star -- Famous Carnegie Hall Concert -- The Carnegie Hall band -- The first small-group recordings -- The Columbia Band -- The first Columbia recordings -- The Sextet -- Marriage and family -- An era ends -- Bop band -- Classical Goodman -- The last bands -- The legacy of Benny Goodman -- Selected discography.…”
Format: Book
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Swing, swing, swing : the life & times of Benny Goodman /
New York : Norton, 1993Table of Contents: “…-- 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.…”
1st ed.
Format: Book
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The ladies who sing with the band
Lanham, Maryland : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000Table of Contents:Format: Book
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Lost chords : white musicians and their contribution to jazz, 1915-1945
New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Table of Contents:Format: Book
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Fosse
[Place of publication not identified] : A production of Thirteen/WNET New York in association with Warner Vision International, Trio Network, Image Entertainment, Inc, 2001Table of Contents: “…Sing, sing, sing (composed by Benny Goodman) (1978) --…”
Format: DVD
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Thirty years with the big bands
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1987Table of Contents: “…A childhood in Larchmont -- With Fred Elizalde in Europe -- The California Ramblers, Bert Lown, Paul Whiteman, and George Olsen -- Joining Benny Goodman -- "Let's Dance" -- No pressure at all -- The end of my thirty years -- Epilogue.…”
Format: Book
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Good vibes : a life in jazz
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003Table of Contents: “…Nice Guy -- Woody Herman and the Four Brothers Band -- Bellson, Shavers, and Dorsey (again?) -- Benny Goodman : El Foggo -- Finally, a full-time bandleader -- El Foggo rides again -- Terry G. and Terry P. -- California, here I come! …”
Format: Book
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Swingin' the dream : big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1998Table of Contents: “…Just one more chance: the fall of the Jazz Age and the rise of Swing, 1929-1935 -- The crowd goes wild: the youth culture of Swing -- Swing is here: Benny Goodman and the triumph of American music -- News from the great wide world: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Black Swing bands -- Swing left: the politics of race and culture in the Swing era -- The city of Swing: New York and the dance band business in Black and White -- Swing goes to war: Glenn Miller and the popular music of World War II -- The war in jazz -- Coda and conclusion: Red scares and head scares.…”
Format: Book
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The Ella Fitzgerald companion
Westport, Connecticut : Praeger, 2004Table of Contents: “…Sy Oliver ; Buddy Bregman ; Duke Ellington ; Paul Weston ; Nelson Riddle ; Billy May ; Frank De Vol ; Marty Paich ; Bill Doggett ; Two years at Capitol ; One for Prestige, two for Reprise -- Benny, Duke, and Count. Benny Goodman and the swing era ; Duke Ellington ; Count Basie -- The principal accompanists. …”
Format: Book
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American musicians II : seventy-one portraits in jazz
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Table of Contents: “…Panassié, Delaunay et Cie (Hughes Panassié and Charles Delaunay) -- For the comfort of the people (Joe "King" Oliver) -- Ferdinand La Menthe (Jelly Roll Morton) -- Le grand Bechet (Sidney Bechet) -- The blues is a slow story (Henry "Red" Allen) -- New York drummers (Tommy Benford, Freddie Moore, Sonny Greer) -- Starting at the top (Jabbo Smith) -- Light everywhere (Adolphous "Doc" Cheatham) -- Fats (Fats Waller) -- In the wilderness (Marie Marcus) -- Sunshine always opens out (Earl Hines) -- Out here again (Mary Lou Williams) -- Coleman Hawkins -- A good one-two (Jimmy McPartland) -- Davy Tough -- Even his feet look sad (Pee Wee Russell) -- More ingredients (Bobby Hackett) -- Hodes' blues (Art Hodes) -- Benny (Benny Goodman) -- Back from Valhalla (Jess Stacy) -- Whatever happened to Mel Powell? …”
Format: Book
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Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams
Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2004Format: Book
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The creation of jazz : music, race, and culture in urban America
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1992Format: Book
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Outside and inside : race and identity in white jazz autobiography
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020Format: Book
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How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll : an alternative history of American popular music
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Format: Book
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Visions of jazz : the first century
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Table of Contents: “…Fats Waller (Comedy tonight) -- pt. 3: A popular music. Benny Goodman (The mirror of swing). Jimmie Lunceford (For listeners, too). …”
Format: Book
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The music lover's handbook ...
New York : William Morrow and Company, 1943Table of Contents: “…/ Elie Siegmeister -- Jazz, hot and hybrid / Winthrop Sargeant -- Swing that music / Louis Armstrong -- The kingdom of swing / Benny Goodman -- The relation of jazz to American music / George Gershwin -- Men of jazz / John Tasker Howard -- The American composer / Elie Siegmeister -- Concert music in Barnum's day / David Ewen -- Stephen Foster / John Tasker Howard -- Edward MacDowell ; Charles Tomlinson Griffes / Marion Bauer, Ethel Peyser -- Henry F. …”
Format: Book
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American datelines : major news stories from colonial times to the present
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2003Table of Contents: “…." -- Legendary New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson attends the opening of "Porgy and Bess," George Gershwin's farewell to Broadway -- 1936 John Steinbeck, freelancing for The San Francisco News, chronicles the plight of migrant farm laborers in California -- 1938 Irving Kolodin of The New York Sun is present when jazz comes of age at the Carnegie Hall concert of the Benny Goodman Quintet -- The one-round mauling of Max Schmeling by "The Brown Bomber," Joe Louis, is reported By The New York Journal and American's Jimmy Cannon -- The San Francisco Chronicle tells of the hysteria that followed the prank broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds."…”
1st Ill. pbk.
Format: Book