Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman.

Insight on the News | February 22, 1993| | Copyright

The timing of Ross Firestone's new biography of Benny Goodman is opportune. There's a saxophone-playing president in the White House and a resurgence of interest in swing music. Maybe Firestone's fine, full (if anything, overfull) book, Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life and Times of Benny Goodman (Norton), will give the trend a push. I hope so.

I was obsessed with Benny Goodman 30 years before I met him. In lieu of a bar mitzvah, my mother gave me a clarinet, and from age 13 to 16 (1937 to 1940), I spent countless hours memorizing Goodman's classic solos - hoping some ...

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