“I was more interested in being a musician than a star.”

— Benny Goodman

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About Benny Goodman

Jazz Musician • American

Benny Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the 'King of Swing.' Rising to fame in the mid-1930s, his orchestra was one of the most popular and commercially successful groups of the Swing Era....

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