Jazz
Benny Goodman.
Benny Goodman's "How Am I to Know" was used in several Chase Bank commercials in 1991.
Jack Benny is supposed to play the violin on his show
A clarinet is a woodwind instrument. Benny Goodman used to play it.
No. Shaw retired permanently from performing in 1954, although he returned to music as a conductor in the late 1960s. You may be thinking of Benny Goodman's performances.
No, while he did play and commission classical pieces he did not write any.
He is not known for that and most likely never did but he very well could have !
I do not know about Lester Young. However I saw "Benny Goodman's b-flat clarinet" in the music instrument hall of the Metropolitan museum in NY City about 10 years ago. One would imagine it's still there in its glass case, looking really superb just like its owner used to play.
No. By the time the Goodman band was established, Dorsey was already co-leading the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with his brother Jimmy.
Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Red Nichols, Gene Krupa Orchestra
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