Benny Goodman: News Report of His Death - June 13, 1986

Legendary Swing musician, Benny Goodman, has died. He was 77 years old.
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".
From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing big bands in the United States. 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."
Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. During an era of racial segregation, he led one of the first integrated jazz groups, his trio and quartet. He performed nearly to the end of his life while exploring an interest in classical music.

[@TheTerryE]

One of the greatest of all time. Imagine the death of a jazz musician leading the network nightly news in 2024. Wouldn't happen and that's sad.

[@jimdrake-writer]

In the 1970s I was fortunate to interview Goodman and Artie Shaw, among other great clarinetists. Both had begun as sax players, and were seated next to each other in the studio orchestras of the World Broadcasting Company's studios. Co-founder and principal conductor Gus Haenschen said that Shaw, who was a self-taught on both instruments, was as great a sax player as he was a clarinetist--but Goodman, Haenschen said, "had one of the worst sax tones, almost like a student trying to learn to play a sax, but he himself couldn't hear how bad it was." Goodman described Shaw as "a nut, or wanted to give that impression," and Shaw described Goodman as "an idiot savant whose mind is limited to a wooden tube with springs and keys and holes in it."

[@corduerorose9747]

38 years later RIP

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

As a harmonic player since ten (I'm 72), I know that Goodman influenced blues playing by later harp players.

[@corduerorose9747]

Please do naya rivera on July 13 and Kelly Preston on the 12th

[@bunnyboi254]

This s super sad