Benny Goodman

Author : Ross Firestone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393311686
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing, Swing, Swing written by Ross Firestone and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Elvis and rock & roll, Benny Goodman--the King of Swing--ruled American popular music. In this intimate biography, Firestone illuminates Goodman's enormous impact on American music and culture, offering a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at this complicated, difficult jazz superstar. Photos.

Author : James Lincoln Collier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195067767
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman and the Swing Era written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the rags-to-riches career of the clarinetist and his role in popularizing jazz music in the post-Depression 1930s, assesses his elusive personality, and reevaluates dozens of his landmark recordings

Author : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 082342362X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson written by Lesa Cline-Ransome and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teddy Wilson and Benny Goodman broke the color barrier in entertainment when they formed the Benny Goodman Trio with Gene Krupa. Here is the story of how two musical prodigies from very different backgrounds grew up, were brought together by the love of music, and helped to create the jazz style known as swing.

Author : Catherine Tackley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195398300
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert written by Catherine Tackley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Through discussions of the cultural context, the performance itself, and its reception and response, Tackley shows why Goodman's 1938 concert remains one of the most significant events in American music history.

Author : Jeffrey Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195358148
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uncrowned King of Swing written by Jeffrey Magee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing," then Fletcher Henderson was the power behind the throne. Now Jeffrey Magee offers a fascinating account of Henderson's musical career, throwing new light on the emergence of modern jazz and the world that created it. Drawing on an unprecedented combination of sources, including sound recordings and hundreds of scores that have been available only since Goodman's death, Magee illuminates Henderson's musical output, from his early work as a New York bandleader, to his pivotal role in building the Kingdom of Swing. He shows how Henderson, standing at the forefront of the New York jazz scene during the 1920s and '30s, assembled the era's best musicians, simultaneously preserving jazz's distinctiveness and performing popular dance music that reached a wide audience. Magee reveals how, in Henderson's largely segregated musical world, black and white musicians worked together to establish jazz, how Henderson's style rose out of collaborations with many key players, how these players deftly combined improvised and written music, and how their work negotiated artistic and commercial impulses. Whether placing Henderson's life in the context of the Harlem Renaissance or describing how the savvy use of network radio made the Henderson-Goodman style a national standard, Jeffrey Magee brings to life a monumental musician who helped to shape an era. "An invaluable survey of Henderson's life and music." --Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times "Magee has written an important book, illuminating an era too often reduced to its most familiar names. Goodman might have been the King of Swing, but Henderson here emerges as that kingdom's chief architect." --Boston Globe "Excellent.... Jazz fans have waited 30 years for a trained musicologist...to evaluate Henderson's strengths and weaknesses and attempt to place him in the history of American music." --Will Friedwald, New York Sun

Author : Jon Hancock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956240408
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman written by Jon Hancock and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benny Goodman
Publisher : ARC Music Group
ISBN 13 : 9780793549429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman's Clarinet Method written by Benny Goodman and published by ARC Music Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instrumental Jazz). This book, written by Benny Goodman himself, has been out of print for many years. It teaches the beginning student clarinet tone, style, technique and musicianship. It covers such basics as assembling and tuning the clarinet, proper position, scales, expression and many exercises. Features 11 tunes and includes a biography of his career up to 1940.

Author : Benny Goodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780685148686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Swing written by Benny Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Russell Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman written by Donald Russell Connor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing fans, jazz scholars, and collectors will delight in this book's coverage of newly discovered recordings, broadcasts, and engagements of Benny Goodman, the famed clarinetist, unearthed since Connor's Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy (Scarecrow, 1988).

Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612283454
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benny Goodman written by Joanne Mattern and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benny Goodman was born into a family so poor that they often did not have enough to eat. However, Benny’s father made sure there was enough money for music lessons. From his early days as a preteen sensation in Chicago’s music scene, Benny rose to become one of the most important figures in jazz music. He was the first jazz artist to perform at New York’s famous Carnegie Hall and made swing music popular all over the world. Along the way, Benny helped integrate big bands by performing with African–American musicians at a time when prejudice ruled society. Follow the amazing story of America’s own “King of Swing” and learn amazing facts about jazz history in this biography.