Billy Bauer, a jazz guitarist who played with Woody Herman’s First Herd band in the 1940s and later with bands led by Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden, has died. He was 89. Bauer, who ...

Jazz albums were fairly esoteric items until 1950, when Columbia’s first Benny Goodman collection made a smash success. Since then, a dozen new jazz labels have sprung up (mostly on the West Coast), ...

Benny Goodman, the clarinet virtuoso from Chicago, became a central figure of the Swing Era and popularized the jazz form with a worldwide audience in the 1930s and beyond. The program is distributed ...

The Ben Pollack Orchestra plays three tunes California Echoes My Kind Of Love and Song Of The Island In the band are ao Jimmy McPartland Ray Bauduc Icky Morgan 19 year old Benny Goodman brother Harry ...

Ethel Waters- vocals; Joe Smith- cornet; Bunny Berigan, Sterling Bose, Manny Klein, Shirley Clay, Charlie Teagarden- trumpet; Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey- trombone; Jimmy Dorsey- clarinet, alto ...