For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman, who would have turned 100 on May 30, defined for most people the ...

(CBS 11) - Today's blog is about the big band era of the 1930s. "Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)" is a song from the earlier years of the big bands. It was written by Louis Prima and released in 1936.

There was a time when jazz was the popular music of America. And more than any other individual, Chicago`s own Benny Goodman was responsible for it. Not because Goodman was the greatest clarinetist in ...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. And swing is coming to Naperville with the Julian Bliss Septet. The ’30s and ’40s-era swing band performs “A Tribute to Benny Goodman” at 8 p.m.

In this earnest salute to the King of Swing, clarinetist Terry Myers and his splendid Florida–based orchestra frame impressive likenesses of songs that helped make Benny Goodman a household name when ...

NEW HAVEN -- The King of Swing would be 100 this year, and if Benny Goodman were alive, he'd be pretty impressed by the birthday bash that Yale has come up with this week to celebrate the milestone.

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.