What is a great biography about Benny Goodman?”
Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman (Paperback) by Ross Firestone List Price: $35.00 Price: $35.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping From Publishers Weekly Firestone ( The Man in Me ) strikes the right chords in this exceptionally fine biography of the King of Swing, Benny Goodman (1909-1986). With a social historian’s command of events and places, he vividly chronicles his subject’s ascent, beginning with his split from his brother’s Chicago band just before the Crash of 1929. Firestone illuminates the recordings, club dates, tours and players in the clarinetist and bandleader’s surprisingly rocky career. Full, revealing reports describe Goodman’s popular appearances at the Paramount Theater and Carnegie Hall in New York City during the 1930s; his integrated bands, which crossed the racial lines in the movies as well as in the music business; his conflicts with record executive John Hammond Sr.; and his steadfast support of his bandmembers, incl
