1/12/2024 0 Comments Clarinet quartet repertoireIn a Victor recording session on March 21, 1928, he played alongside Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti in the All-Star Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret. The session resulted in the song "When I First Met Mary", which also included Glenn Miller, Harry Goodman, and Ben Pollack. His first recording pressed to disc (Victor 20394) occurred on December 9, 1926, in Chicago. In addition to clarinet, he sometimes played alto saxophone and baritone saxophone. Goodman moved to New York City and became a session musician for radio, Broadway musicals, and in studios. Two years later he joined the Ben Pollack Orchestra and made his first recordings in 1926. At fourteen he became a member of the musicians' union and worked in a band featuring Bix Beiderbecke. He entered Harrison Technical High School in Chicago in 1922. He made his professional debut in 1921 at the Central Park Theater on the West Side of Chicago. He learned quickly, becoming a strong player at an early age, and was soon playing in bands. His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists who worked in Chicago, such as Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Leon Roppolo. His father's death was "the saddest thing that ever happened in our family", Goodman said. When he was 17, his father was killed by a passing car after stepping off a streetcar. He attended the Lewis Institute ( Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high-school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band. In the summer of 1923, he met Bix Beiderbecke. He performed on Lake Michigan excursion boats, and in 1923 played at Guyon's Paradise, a local dance hall. It was the only time he could get away from his bleak neighborhood. By joining the band, he was entitled to spend two weeks at a summer camp near Chicago. During the next year Goodman joined the boys club band at Hull House, where he received lessons from director James Sylvester. Benny also received two years of instruction from the classically trained clarinetist and Chicago Symphony member, Franz Schoepp. To give his children some skills and an appreciation for music, his father enrolled ten-year-old Goodman and two of his brothers in music lessons, from 1919, at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue. On Sundays, his father took the children to free band concerts in Douglass Park, which was the first time Goodman experienced live professional performances. With little income and a large family, they moved to the Maxwell Street neighborhood, an overcrowded slum near railroad yards and factories that was populated by German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Jewish immigrants. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman's birth. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, (1873–1964), came from Kaunas. His father, David Goodman (1873–1926), came to the United States in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire. He performed nearly to the end of his life while exploring an interest in classical music. During an era of racial segregation, he led one of the first integrated jazz groups, his trio and quartet. Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Benjamin David Goodman (– June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".įrom 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States.
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