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Goodman, Benny

  1. A twentieth-century American jazz clarinetist ( see clarinet ) and bandleader. He was known as the “King of Swing.”


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He loved the swing music played by big bands, and his heroes included Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Earl Hines.

They changed American music forever, begetting more kings: Benny Goodman, the “King of Swing” and Nat “King” Cole.

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