Benny Goodman Audio & Video
Tue, 15 Apr 2008
Here and Now for Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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[34:51]..." really and and -- he thinks oh. Do Kenny G and Benny Goodman had equal value and don't get jazz musicians started on and finally. But undecided -- aren't even the right questions his book"...
[37:05]..." the right stuff even like a Glenn Miller even even Glenn Miller Benny Goodman I mean in the big band era. There were people who felt. Get real jazz was played by is six or seven"...
[37:38]..." acceptable the modern music that followed which seem very abstract compared to Benny Goodman England Miller. Wasn't considered the real stuff by the big -- France. Then when we come to accept Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk"...
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Sat, 22 Mar 2008
NPR: 03-22-2008 Music
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[34:58]..." on all the time he was implement my first influence he had Benny Goodman he would help that's -- answer fine he had. -- you really -- it probably World War -- music was really what"...
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Thu, 13 Mar 2008
Jerry Williams, Talk Show Legend Part I
[description] Hear from the authors of "Burning up the Air," Steve Elman and Alan Tolz as they discuss the life and times of radio legend Jerry Williams.
[23:55]..." Should we read some of these anybody's short Louie Armstrong Bob hope Benny Goodman Artie Shaw. Art linkletter Henny youngman Alfred Hitchcock Ethel Merman Carol Channing Sid Caesar Steve Allen pat Cooper Mohammed Ali Carl Reiner"...
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Mon, 3 Mar 2008
Jerry Burning Up the Air 3-3-08
[description] Steve Elman and Alan Tolz former producers of talk radio legend Jerry Williams will be with us to talk about their new book about Jerry Burning Up the Air.
[7:57]..." like that are -- pat Cooper come true there are about Benny Goodman didn't interview at any given that."...
[8:03]..." The day after he did the interview Benny Goodman passed away. So he hit a little it's pixel steers -- entertainers and or older folks that he was going to interview"...
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008
NPR: 01-26-2008 Music
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[24:52]..." six years touring with Elton John. -- played with every -- from Benny Goodman to Johnny Cash to Bob Dylan but his passion is Gypsy music from all over the world. Especially the sound created in"...
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Wed, 16 Jan 2008
Eric Jackson - Duke Ellington Round Table
[description] Eric Jackson discusses Duke Ellington's A Sacred Concert with a panel on Winthrop, MA community access television. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our entire collection lectures.
[15:43]..." because of performance upon all this again with kind of the first. Benny Goodman head of -- card -- and 1938. -- that African Americans really had not appeared. At Carnegie hall with leaders project here"...
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Thu, 6 Dec 2007
Jay and Jim Debate Mitt Romney's Speech on Religion Pt. 3
[5:26]..." that that Benny Goodman now about what the real music -- but now as well I. You know he's gonna -- his -- at by the"...
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Sun, 16 Sep 2007
NPR: 09-16-2007 Music
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[46:33]..." We unearthed defected Benny Goodman commission that Barca to break impeachment Clinton. He actually commission bartok to write a piece -- contrasts which is for. Solo clarinet"...
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Wed, 18 Jul 2007
NPR: 07-18-2007 Music
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[14:44]..." Along the way Jones has worked with everyone who's anyone in jazz Benny Goodman miles Davis Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster Billie Holliday Ella Fitzgerald. Tomorrow and Jones celebrates his 80 ninth birthday Andy as a new"...
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Sat, 14 Apr 2007
NPR: Music for Saturday, Apr 14 2007
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[15:30]..." went on tour with jazz luminaries like George shearing Ahmad Jamal and Benny Goodman . But her brother friend a saxophone player -- still perform the Harlem blues and jazz man says Dayton didn't always endear herself"...
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