Other Versions Spinner Recommendations Spinner Reviews Spinner Close Ad About Discogs Chevron Down About Us Blog App Careers API Change Log Help Is Here Chevron Down Help Support Forum Keyboard Shortcuts Database Guidelines Discogs Shipping Join In Chevron Down Get Started Contribute Add Release Contributor List Help Translate Discogs Events Advertise With Us Follow Us Facebook Square Facebook Twitter Twitter Youtube Youtube Instagram Instagram Mixcloud Mixcloud Soundcloud Soundcloud Pinterest Pinterest 2021 Discogs Manage Preferences Cookie Policy Terms of Service Privacy Policy California Privacy Notice Accessibility Statement Globe Deutsch English Espaol Franais Italiano Portugus (Brasil) Русский Caret Down.Here are Gene, Benny, Hamp, Teddy and Slam in all their swinging glory playing Avalon, Moonglow, Ding Dong Daddy and more.One is a fabulous Stan Kenton concert from 1962, the other a Pearl Bailey special featuring Ellington, Basie, Ella, Torme, Kenton, a wild Lionel Hampton segement and much much more.Coming in the near future, in response to request, are more CDs in our download shop, including the ultra-rare Jazz Rhythms of Gene Krupa.
There were and are several Goodman tributes, including a BBC Radio Centenary episode, concerts by Paquito DRivera, the Boston Symphony and a Lincoln Center Jazz for Young People show entitled Who is Benny Goodman. And Schoenberg, by the way, paid tribute to BG, and Lester Young, via several, recent WGBO radio programs. While all this is great stuff, it seems to me that there should be more, given the scope of Benny Goodmans fame and more than substantial contributions. But memories fade as time goes on, so maybe we should be thankful for any tributes at all. Though I dont like getting involved in the personal lives of any celebrity, the Goodman personality, or lack of it, is just so darn amusing and very, very public, that it just cannot be ignored. One of Goodmans sidemen told Benny the news about TDs tragic and unexpected death. Benny, I hate to tell you this bad news, the sideman related, but Tommy Dorsey just died. In line with the 100th birthday business, this seems like an appropriate time to retell it. For an unpublished author writing about someone relatively forgotten back then, the project was an uphill battle from the start. Still, I forged ahead, and though a good deal of the book was a compilation of edited, previously published materials, I obviously had to get some first-person interviews to give the project some credibility. When I started, I had no publisher and not much of anything else, other than my credentials as a drummer and newspaper editor, but players like Teddy Wilson, Eddie Wasserman, Carmen Leggio, John Bunch, Charlie Ventura, and later, Mel Torme (who wrote a wonderful introduction to the book, where he revealed that Gene was, in fact, Goodmans absolute, favorite drummer of all time) were just marvelous to me. Goodmans office number was listed, and having heard all the stories about this strange guy through the years, and the fact that he remained one of my musical idols, I really had to get some serious courage going before I dialed the phone. Im writing a book about Gene Krupa, I told her, and I was just wonderingnext to setting up an interview with God, how difficult would it be to set a time to do a five-minute phone interview with Mr. Goodman. You played with Gene at the very beginning of his career, and you played with him at the very end. Maybe you could explain the difference in how he accompanied you through the years. As you know, he started with me and then formed his own band, which was rather successful. Benny Goodman The Ultimate Collection Rare Tv Special OfHere it is: BennyTube.com includes the newsreel footage from JATPHelsinki1953, Avalon and I Got Rhythm with the Goodman Trio from the Peggy Lee tv special of the late 1950s, a couple of bonus tracks from the other Swing Into Spring tv special with Benny and Red Norvo in a small group, and the original theatrical trailer to The Benny Goodman Story. So famous was Shaw that he was pegged to co-star in this 1939 opus, coincidently the same year Gene Krupa made his film debut as a leader. This is a pristine print of this real rarity, which stars Lana Turner, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson and the great Shaw band, featuring a certain worlds greatest drummer. Benny Goodman The Ultimate Collection Rare Movie Stardancer GetsThe plot A movie stardancer gets pregnant just before shes supposed to star in a new film, and the film studio institutes a nationwide collegiate search for someone to replace her. No matter. Shaw is fabulous, as is the band, and though hes no Sir Larry, hes not bad.
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