Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall 1938

Softcover
218 pages
Prancing Fish Publishers
Illustrated

Gathered together, for the first time, in this new book is a unique collection of photographs and artifacts that gives an amazing new insight into the Benny Goodman Orchestra's most famous concert. The author, Jon Hancock, has spent many years locating all of the contemporary reports of this famous concert to write an accurate and revealing account of the event. 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.