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Benny Goodman

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 29: Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro – Sonny Stitt – JJ Johnson (1946 – 1950)

    Sep 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Goodman, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, jazz at 100, JJ Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Tadd Dameron

    Tadd Dameron – Fats Navarro In the past several hours of Jazz at 100, we have featured the music of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Max Roach. In this hour, we will continue to present bebop innovators – pianist/composer Tadd Dameron and his frequent (but short-lived) collaborator Fats Navarro, […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 21: The Swing Era Big Bands (1936 – 1941)

    Jul 21st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Swing Era, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman

    Artie Shaw In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the very dance-oriented swinging music of the Big Bands was the most popular music around. Never had jazz been more central to mass culture. Just over the horizon were the draft of 1940 that eventually conscripted 10 million men, making it increasingly difficult to field top […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 20: Small Groups – Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, John Kirby (1934 – 1941)

    Jul 14th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Goodman, Charlie Chistian, Gene Krupa, John Kirby Django Reinhardt, Lional Hampton, Stephane Grappelli, Teddy Wilson

    Django Reinhardt In the last hour we heard from prominent Swing Era soloists Chu Berry, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges and Lester Young, featured in small group settings. Continuing in the small group vein, in this hour we’ll hear from the Benny Goodman Trio, Quartet and sextet, Django Reinhardt and le Quintette Du Hot Club de […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 15: Chick Webb & Benny Goodman (1933 – 1938)

    Jun 9th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, jazz at 100

    Benny Goodman  – Chick Webb In the mid-1930s, jazz orchestras led by drummer Chick Webb and clarinetist Benny Goodman rose to prominence with the arrangements of Edgar Sampson and Fletcher Henderson. After launching the careers of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan, Webb succumbed to spinal tuberculosis in 1939, at age 34. Goodman launched the careers […]

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