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Yale University Archives: Benny Goodman | Nimbus NI2714

Yale University Archives: Benny Goodman

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI2714

Barcode: 0710357271427

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 5th January 2009

Contents

Artists

Benny Goodman

Artists

Benny Goodman

About

Nineteen fifty-eight was quite a year for Benny Goodman. There had been a resurgence of interest in his big band after "The Benny Goodman Story" was released in the spring of 1956, and Benny had accepted hotel and tour dates for the first time (with a full band) in quite a while. There had been a stint at the Waldorf-Astoria, followed by more touring, a State Department-sponsored trip to the Far East in December, and a return to the Waldorf-Astoria in March 1957. Later that spring, Urbie Green fronted the band on a series of national tours that only rarely featured Benny. In early 1958, Benny put together an all-star band for the first of two "Swing into Spring" television specials; and it was immediately following that broadcast that he formed yet another band, featuring some veterans (Zoot Sims, Taft Jordan, Vernon Brown, Billy Bauer, and Arvell Shaw) and some very talented newcomers (Roy Burnes and Roland Hanna).

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