Who died this date in 1986....Benjamin David "Benny"
Goodman[1] (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an
American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of
Swing".
In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular
musical groups in the United States. His concert
at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938, is described
by the critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular
music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of
'respectable' music...read more here http://bit.ly/2rVpF2e
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