Benny Goodman
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Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
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![Goodman's swing fans in Oakland, California, in 1940[24]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Oakland%2C_California._Hot_Jazz_Recreation._A_crowd_of_young_people_at_the_concert_of_the_Benny_Goodman_Band_which_took..._-_NARA_-_532264_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Oakland%2C_California._Hot_Jazz_Recreation._A_crowd_of_young_people_at_the_concert_of_the_Benny_Goodman_Band_which_took..._-_NARA_-_532264_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Goodman's swing fans in Oakland, California, in 1940[24]
Goodman with Christian in a recording studio, April 1941
Goodman in Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Goodman (third from left) with some of his former musicians, seated around piano left to right: Vernon Brown, George Auld, Gene Krupa, Clint Neagley, Ziggy Elman, Israel Crosby and Teddy Wilson (at piano); 1952
Goodman in concert in Nuremberg, West Germany (1971)
Goodman's star on Hollywood Walk of FameAwards 3
In their orbit 5
Nearby in musicians 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 1986 · aged 77
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