Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Benny Goodman Band launch into their opening number, 'Don't Be That Way'. The drummer pushes the beat with urgent press rolls, ...

Long before rock stars filled stadiums, Benny Goodman sparked America's first true youth music craze. As the face of the Swing Era, he transformed jazz into a national phenomenon and introduced many ...

IT’S a tough life for people with neat minds who like to put everything into categories. Nothing seems to want to be classified any more except, possibly, Marion Cooley’s Sunday nights at the Pierre, ...