Benny Goodman News

Those who came to the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts Tuesday evening hoping to hear light-hearted banter from Woody Allen, the famous film director and comic actor, may have left a little disappointed.

Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli will keep the New Year's weekend celebration alive with his stellar jazz guitar performances at The Division Street Grill in Peekskill January 2nd 2010 at 7:30 and 9:30p.m. Jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli has played with everyone from Zoot Sims and Benny Goodman to Doc Severinsen on The Tonight Show, where he honed his ...

Tickets for the 1:30 p.m. performance are $30 for members of the Craven Arts Council & Gallery and $35 for nonmembers.

Steve Allen is usually remembered as the original host of the "Tonight Show," although he wrote thousands of songs and authored more than 50 books.

The Somerset County Vocational & Technical Schools Foundation will present a Jazz Concert-Tribute to Benny Goodman on Saturday, January 16 at 8 pm.

Ita s the music that gave a generation a lift out of the Dirty a 30s, so ita s sure to get you back in the swing in the post-Christmas slump.

Leo J. "Lee" O'Connor was an extremely talented musician, performing with many of the legends of the big band era, but he was also known as a "gentleman," according to his sister, Mildred Boyle of Altoona.

Maybe it's because his star burned so brightly so long ago. Maybe it's because he was white and Jewish.

Laurel Gross has written features for The New York Times and is a former arts and entertainment editor at The New York Post and Variety.

When students at Marvin Stamm 's school in Tennessee reached seventh grade, they had a choice of either playing in the band or singing in the chorus and taking art.

Carrboro Triangle Jazz Orchestra The ArtsCenter - Resurrecting tunes from the 1930s and '40s, the Triangle Jazz Orchestra delivers swing slickly and smoothly.

Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 9:34 a.m. If you could line up Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton and Duke Ellington and demand they identify the best jazz violinist in the world, there's no doubt they'd agree: it's Svend Asmussen.

Rekindle old memories while making new ones with a special one-night-only performance by Dave Bennett performing "A Benny Goodman Holiday Tribute." The show will be held at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Dec.

WITH all the multi-disc jazz boxes that have come out in recent years - the complete Miles Davis on Columbia, the complete Charlie Parker on Savoy, the complete Duke Ellington on RCA and so on - it's hard to believe that any significant tapes by any major musician might still be languishing undiscovered in a record company's archives.

For nearly half a century, the greater Lawndale area was the vibrant, spirited center of Jewish life in Chicago.

Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, wea ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it.

In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is taking notice.

Once, as they were jamming, Duke Ellington 's drummer Sam Woodyard called out to Danish violinist Svend Asmussen, "Man, you play your ass off," to which The Fiddling Viking replied, with that charmingly naively innocent wit so typical of his homeland, "From now on then my name is only Mussen." There is just one Svend Asmussen and today, at the age ...

Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 P.M. Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes & Noble on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, October 30th, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with saxophonist, epic composer and jazz legend, Benny Golson Time: ...

Benny Goodman strolled down New York's Second Avenue one recent morning, covering the nine blocks between his apartment and a health club, where he swims each day, in about ten minutes.