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Saturday 30 May 2015

1909 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing), born in Chicago, Illinois

https://youtu.be/45Kx4KzfMn0

Benny Goodman - PBS

www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_goodman_benny.htm
Benny Goodman received rudimentary musical training in 1919 at the Kehelah Jacob Synagogue and the next year joined the boys club band at Jane Addams

http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/artists/C4008
Benjamin David Goodman was born on May 30, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eighth child of immigrants David Goodman and Dora Grisinsky Goodman, who left Russia to escape anti-Semitism. Benny's mother never learned to speak English. His father worked for a tailor to support his large family, which eventually grew to include a total of 12 children, and had trouble making ends meet.

When Benny was 10 years old, his father sent him to study music at Kehelah Jacob Synagogue in Chicago. There, Benny learned the clarinet under the tutelage of Chicago Symphony member Franz Schoepp, while two of his brothers learned tuba and trumpet. He also played in the band at Jane Addams' famous social settlement, Hull-House.