Eighty years ago this month, legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, the King of Swing, made history with a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. On January 16, 1938 the Benny Goodman ...
NEW YORK– Lionel Hampton, an American jazz icon who pioneered the vibraphone as a jazz instrument and whose musical career spanned six decades beginning in the late 1920s, died Saturday morning of ...
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Lionel Hampton, an American jazz icon who pioneered the vibraphone as a jazz instrument and whose musical career spanned six decades beginning in the late 1920s, has died. Hampton, who played with ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents “Moonglow: The Magic of Benny Goodman” on March 4-5. On March 4-5, with “Moonglow: The Magic of Benny Goodman,” Jazz at Lincoln Center will revisit the story of The ...
Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny's ...
Jason Marsalis, right, plays the vibraphone with bassist Will Goble at the 2015 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Marsalis will perform Benny Goodman's music at Snug Harbor on Thursday, June 25, ...
NEW YORK (AP)--Lionel Hampton, the vibraphone virtuoso and standout showman whose six-decade career ranked him with the greatest names in jazz history, died Saturday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 94 ...
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