Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MOZART: QUINTET FOR CLARINET & STRINGS (K. 581). (Benny Goodman and the Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides.) One evening last winter, a Victor representative introduced bespectacled Benny Goodman, No. 1 U. S. swingster, to the famed Budapest String Quartet, world's No. 1 chamber-music team. Goodman knew about them; they had never heard of him. When they discovered how well he played the clarinet they suggested that he join them in making a record or two. "Have you ever made records before?" inquired the Budapesters. "Yes, a few," said Goodman, "in fact, I have a band." "Indeed...
Upshot of the meeting will interest Goodman fans but disappoint chamber-music connoisseurs. Able Clarinettist Goodman plays his notes precisely, but sounds like a little boy with a very stiff collar singing in church for the first time...
...SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART (Benny Goodman; Victor). In a more authoritative musical posture (see above), Goodman swings the reeds against the brasses, once more proves his the No. 1 white band...
...Captained by that same Francis Ouimet who had put U. S. golf on the front pages 25 years ago, it was the strongest and youngest team the U. S. had ever selected. The Americans, too, thought they had the best amateur golfer since Bobby Jones: 28-year-old Johnny Goodman of Omaha, U. S. Amateur champion, the best shotmaker and most consistent scorer of 1937, who had never lost a Walker Cup match (1934 or 1936). Other members of the team, chosen on the basis of performances during the past two years, were: Ray Billows of Poughkeepsie (runner...
...this penumbra of exceptions and compromises is jazz. Though officially condemned by Nazi authorities, it has never been absolutely banned. Negro jazz bands are not permitted; swing music has been publicly damned. But records by Josephine Baker, Guy Lombardo. Victor Young, Benny Goodman, Leo Reisman are still selling in Germany, as are the sheet-music compositions of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin. And British-born "sweet" Jazzband Leader Jack Hylton recently finished a two-month engagement at one of Berlin's variety show houses...