Benny Goodman Movies

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker nicknamed Bird just died, at 34. His...

Hasselgård died in a car accident 75 years ago, aged just 26, he became a legend like so many other young dead in jazz history. The clarinetist...

A dancer glides through industrial landscapes accompanied by groovy jazz rhythms.

This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in...

A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.

This concert film made in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American...

The jazz clarinetist and bandleader dubbed the King of Swing performs his final concert in 1980 at an unassuming club in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.