Download or read book Benny Goodman The Life and Legacy of the King of Swing written by Charles River Editors and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time." - Benny Goodman Sprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club. The grayish curtains of cigarette smoke part every once in a while to reveal a sparkling stage and tables upon tables of patrons, some incurably inebriated and others high on the fast-paced nightlife. Fabulous flappers in shimmery cocktail dresses and stylish feather headbands throw their hands up and stomp their feet to the addictive beat on the dance floor. Smartly dressed men, their hair neatly parted and slicked back, toss fistfuls of dice onto the plush green baize of the craps tables. Some hover over roulette wheels, staring intently at the spinning flashes of silver, while others finger their playing cards as they sip on tumblers of whiskey, eyeing both the river and the tower of tokens next to them. Frisky tunes, chic fashion, and American gambling are nostalgic, rose-tinted images most choose to project when visualizing the Roaring Twenties, but the other side of the coin brought an uninviting, much harsher reality that most would prefer to sweep under the rug. The first real estate bubble was on the brink of bursting, and progress was evident, but painfully slow, which gave way to yet another era of violent riots, lynchings, and other forms of oppression imposed on minorities. When the phrase "the King" is used in the context of American music, most people think of Elvis Presley, but Presley was just a baby when the title was first conferred upon Benny Goodman as the King of Swing in 1935. The Swing Era was a magical period in American history between the hedonism of the Roaring Twenties and the rebelliousness sparked by rock music beginning in the 1950s. Swing music was rooted in ragtime, blues, and jazz music that had long been popular in African American enclaves in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans. Swing took the entire nation by storm thanks in large part to Benny Goodman and his bands, earning Goodman the nearly undisputed title of the King of Swing. Goodman's life was a genuine rags-to-riches story. The son of nearly destitute Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Goodman was a musical prodigy who began playing professionally at the tender age of 13, and he was also among the first mainstream bandleaders to hire black musicians. Referring to music as "a great escape for me from the poverty," Goodman's lifelong focus was on good music, no matter who it came from. As he put it, "If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice." Goodman's popularity was so instrumental that Lionel Hampton went so far as to claim, "As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days-and they were hard days, in 1937-made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields." Apart from a few hiatuses to tend his health and his growing family, Goodman remained a consistently active musician literally right up until his death in 1986 at the age of 77. Somewhat fittingly, he died in his study with his clarinet next to him and a Brahms sonata on a music stand nearby. Benny Goodman: The Life and Legacy of the King of Swing profiles how Goodman rose from obscure beginnings to become one of 20th century music's most influential figures. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the King of Swing like never before.

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.

Download or read book Benny King of Swing written by Benny Goodman and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The King of Swing Lives On written by Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph) and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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).

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Download or read book Benny Goodman written by Donald Russell Connor and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously researched with Goodman's active participation, this book documents his recording dates, radio and television broadcasts, motion pictures, and public and private performances, citing their availability on record and audio-and videotape.

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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

Download or read book Benny Goodman king of swing written by Benny Goodman and published by . This book was released on 1984-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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 2012-10-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher jazz and swing music into the American cultural mainstream. This reputation has been perpetuated by Columbia Records' 1950 release of the concert on LP. Now, in Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, jazz scholar and musician Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Combining rigorous documentary and archival research with close analysis of the recording, Tackley strips back the accumulated layers of interpretation and meaning to assess the performance in its original context, and explore what the material has come to represent in its recorded form. Taking a complete view of the concert, she examines the rich cultural setting in which it took place, and analyzes the compositions, arrangements and performances themselves, before discussing the immediate reception, and lasting legacy and impact of this storied event and album. As the definitive study of one of the most important recordings of the twentieth-century, Benny Goodman's Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert is a must-read for all serious jazz fans, musicians and scholars.

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Download or read book Straight Ahead the Story of Stan Kenton written by Carol Easton and published by New York : William Morrow. This book was released on 1973 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Straight Ahead is the story of Stan Kenton's career as a musician, brom his first Artistry in Rhythm band in 1941, through his becoming "the greatest box-office attraction in the nation," through Progressive Jazz, the Innovations Orchestra, his becoming only the third musician elected to Down Beat's Hall of Fame (following Louis Armstrong and Glenn Miller), through the Mellophonium Band, up to the present, his twelfth band"--