Music

August, 1978

Last January 17, 40 years and a day after one of jazzdom's hallmark events, Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert, that grande dame of concert halls once more resounded with the music of the unquenchable B.G. Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall / 40th Anniversary Concert (London) offers vinyl proof that some things and some people improve with age. Benny has with him a few friends who were around in the early days---Martha Tilton Lionel Hampton, Mary Lou Williams---but the big band onstage with...

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