GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Essential George Gershwin Various artists incls George Gershwin, Ethel Waters, Maxime Sullivan, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Alberta Hunter, Sarah Vaughan, Rosemary Clooney [ Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 12/May/2003 ] Celebrating the best tracks from the quintessential American songwriter |
Benny Goodman
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] This re-mastered double CD takes up the Goodman story in 1933 and follows him through the critical year of 1935 when he made the monumental decision to play a selection of Fletcher Henderson tunes to a restless crowd at the Palomar Ballroom. Taking... |
Benny Goodman
Get Happy Get Hot [ Avid / CD ] |
Benny Goodman
Live At Carnegie Hall [ Columbia / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2010 ] Digitally remastered by Sony from the Columbia original master tapes with Harry James, Count Basie, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Ziggy Elman and many more |
Benny Goodman
Three Classic Albums Plus (Benny In Brussels Vol 1 / Benny In Brussels Vol 2 / Plays World Favorites In High-Fidelity) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] AVID Jazz here presents three classic Benny Goodman albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD. Benny In Brussels Vol 1, Benny In Brussels Vol 2 and Plays World Favourites In High Fidelity. The... |
Benny Goodman
Three Classic Albums Plus (Benny Goodman In Moscow Record One / Benny Goodman In Moscow Record Two / Happy Session) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Budapest String Quartet [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 20/May/1986 ] Original recordings from 1956 (concerto) and 1938 |
PURCELL / DEBUSSY / RESPIGHI / TCHAIKOVSKY / SCHUBERT / BRAHMS / SIBELIUS / etc
Sir John Barbirolli - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Nathan Milstein (violin) , Benny Goodman (clarinet), Robert Casadesus (piano), Nathan Milstein (violin) / New York Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli [ Sony Classical / RCA / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2007 ] The young John Barbirolli was hardly known in America when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra chose him to be Arturo Toscanini's successor starting in 1937. The 36-year-old Londoner's first season was a triumph with both players and... |
AARON COPLAND
Copland Conducts Copland Henry Fonda (narrator) Benny Goodman, Isaac Stern / London Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra [ Sony Classical / 20 CD Box Set - released 12/Apr/2024 ] This boxset includes Aaron Copland's complete own recordings for Columbia Masterworks from 1935 to 1976 on 19 CDs plus recordings of two of his works by Leonard Bernstein on one additional CD. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein: The Composer [25 CD set] Jennie Tourel, Zino Francescatti, Benny Goodman, Nancy Walker, Carol Lawrence, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Titus, Harolyn Blackwell, etc / Leonard Bernstein (cond) [ Sony Classical Masters / 25 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ] With his centenary upon us, Sony Classical releases the most comprehensive recorded collection ever released of the music of American conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). |
Benny Goodman
At Carnegie Hall 1938 Complete [ 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] Benny Goodman's January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert is considered the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music, held right in that throne room of musical... |
Benny Goodman
Best of / the Capitol Years [ CD ] |
Benny Goodman
The Very Best Of [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
RAVEL / BIZET / BARTOK / WEBER / NIELSEN / VARESE / etc
Jean Martinon/ Chicago Symphony - Complete recordings Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, with Benny Goodman (clarinet) [ RCA / Sony Classics / 10 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] The renowned French conductor Jean Martinon (1910-1976) studied with Charles Munch and Albert Roussel and was also a distinguished composer. His performances, in the words of one of his biographers, "were distinguished by a concern for translucent... |
Benny Goodman
An Airmail Special from Berlin 1959 [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2003 ] Benny Goodman possessed a rare gift, one shared with only a handful of other jazz musicians. Duke Ellington had it. Miles Davis had it, as did Art Blakey. |
Benny Goodman
Benny Rides Again! + bonus tracks [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/May/2011 ] |
Benny Goodman
Bumble Bee Stomp [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] |
Benny Goodman
Carnegie Hall, January 16th, 1938 - The complete Concert [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Goodman became the first real jazz musician to capture a mass bourgeois white audience in America and carried him to this fantastic performance at Carnegie Hall. |
Benny Goodman
Complete 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert [ Avid / 4 CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] A new re-mastering of the truly legendary 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert in stunning sound quality for a recording of this vintage, helped no little by the wonderful acoustics of the theatre: sections that remained unissued for over 50... |
Benny Goodman
The Complete Legendary 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert [ Definitive / 2 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
Benny Goodman
Live at Carnegie Hall [ CD ] |
Benny Goodman
Live In The Sixties [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing. Benny was awarded this accolade as a result of the popularity of his big band in the 1930s. |
Benny Goodman
Music Makers - 50 Classic Original Recordings in a Day [ Jasmine / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] The Rhythm Makers Transcriptions: There are 50 tracks in the NBC series of transcriptions that have been identified as being by the Goodman Orchestra. To provide so large a number, even over a period, would tax any organisation and thus it was for... |
Benny Goodman
On Stage With Benny Goodman [ Vocalion / CD ] |
Benny Goodman
Rattle & Roll [ Jazz Characters New Series / 3 CD - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Benny Goodman will probably always be the most famous representative of white swing, which is different from black swing in the subtle way it includes harmonic elements from European music, and particularly classical music. His dynamic style and... |
Benny Goodman
Swing Favourites Vol.1 1934-47 [ Naxos Jazz / CD - released 14/May/2001 ] |
Benny Goodman
Today...Live In Stockholm [ Vocalion / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] |
Benny Goodman
Trio And Quartet Showcase [ 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] |
W.A. MOZART
Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Boston symphony String Quartet [ Sony Originals / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] Two classic reformances now remastered. |
MOZART
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Clarinet Quintet (1938, 1946) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / George Szell (piano) / Budapest String Quartet [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] Restored from original undubbed pressings, this adventurous 1938 recording of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet brings together “the King of Swing”, Benny Goodman, and the great Budapest String Quartet. A firm favourite with the record-buying public, this... |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / WEBER / etc
Benny Goodman: Clarinet Classics Benny Goodman (clarinet) with Budapest String Quartet, Nadia Reisenberg (piano) & others [ Heritage / CD - released 23/Sep/2014 ] As a jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman had no peer. But his enthusiasm and virtuosity led him to interpret the most important works of the classical clarinet canon and to commission new works. This CD release gathers together some of his most notable... |
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
Benny In Brussels [ Jazz Plaza Music / CD - released 2/Aug/2010 ] |
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
Complete Benny in Brussels, The [ Solar Records / 3 CD - released 11/Oct/2010 ] |
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
The Essential BG (Box Set) [ Proper / 4 CD ] |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session [ Essential Jazz Classics / CD - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
The Benny Goodman Quintet & Orchestra
Happy Session (Vinyl) [ Wax Time / LP - released 30/Aug/2010 ] |
Glenn Miller & Benny Goodman
Glenn & Benny [ Avid / 4 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Igor Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - Symphonies and concertos [3 CD set] Isaac Stern (violin) Benny Goodman (clarinet) Charles Rosen, Philippe Entremont (piano) / CBC Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchest [ Sony Classical Masters / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2016 ] Hearing a composer conduct their own work offers a fascinating interpretive insight into their oeuvre, all the greater when the composer in question is one of the biggest and most-influential names in 20th century music, Igor Stravinsky. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein conducts Bernstein [7 CD set] John Bogart (alto) Zino Francescatti (violin) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2011 ] Leonard Bernstein was perhaps the most influential figure in classical music in the last half of the twentieth century. Composer, conductor, author, lecturer and often controversial media personality, the American-born Bernstein had a dramatic impact... |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BARTOK / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / COWELL / etc
Joseph Szigeti - The Complete Sony Recordings Joseph Szigeti (violin) with Myra Hess, Pablo Casals, Benny Goodman, Bela Bartok, etc [ Sony Classical / 17 CD Box Set - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "Full of immediacy - and star turns - these remastered recordings make for a compelling time capsule" The Guardian |