New Book:
BENNY GOODMAN - The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - ISBN : 9780956240408.
BENNY GOODMAN - The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert - ISBN : 9780956240408.
Gathered together, for the first time, in this new book is a unique collection of photographs and artefacts that gives an amazing new insight into the Benny Goodman Orchestra’s most famous concert. Rare items from Benny’s own archive at Yale University, together with photographs and documents from the archives at Carnegie Hall and the Estate of Benny Goodman, have been beautifully reproduced, with a foreword by Benny’s daughter Rachel.
The author, Jon Hancock, is a lifelong fan of Benny Goodman’s music and has spent many years locating all of the contemporary reports of this famous concert. He has used this meticulous research to write an accurate and revealing account of Benny’s landmark concert at Carnegie Hall. It is a must for all Goodman fans.
Set in the context of the swing music boom that reverberated around the nightclubs, hotels and radio stations of New York in the late 1930s, the book is packed with unexpected details and human interest stories and explores every aspect of this phenomenal concert.
The author, Jon Hancock, is a lifelong fan of Benny Goodman’s music and has spent many years locating all of the contemporary reports of this famous concert. He has used this meticulous research to write an accurate and revealing account of Benny’s landmark concert at Carnegie Hall. It is a must for all Goodman fans.
Set in the context of the swing music boom that reverberated around the nightclubs, hotels and radio stations of New York in the late 1930s, the book is packed with unexpected details and human interest stories and explores every aspect of this phenomenal concert.
· ‘The Quest for the Perfect Reed’ - A foreword by Rachel Edelson (Benny’s daughter)
· Over 100 rarely seen photographs and illustrations, many in colour
· The concert ticket and publicity handbill
· The complete original 1938 program
· Benny’s 1950 contract with Columbia Records for the concert recordings
· 220 pages soft cover, printed on high quality art paper
This web site is dedicated to Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall concert. Here you will find copies of some
The book can be ordered online from this website or from any bookshop in the UK, just give them the ISBN number: 9780956240408.
The book is in stock at:
Ray’s Jazz at Foyles Bookshops in London.
The Stables Theatre Bookshop at Wavendon.
Waterstones in Shrewsbury.
BG fans in the USA can now order the book from The Jazz Record Center in New York City.
Concert goers visiting Carnegie Hall can buy the book at the gift shop there.
Norbert Rueker’s Jazz-book.com in Germany.
