Benny+Goodman

Benny Goodman

**__Life time__** **__Childhood__** **__Events__**
 * Born May 30, 1909
 * Died June 1986 from cardiac arrest
 * Large family
 * Was sent to study music at Kehelah Jacob Synagogue in Chicago
 * Trouble making ends meet
 * First pit band at 11
 * American federation of musicions when 14
 * Was hired by Ben Pollack at 16
 * Named king of swing
 * Led first band in 1993
 * Married Alice Hammond Duckworth
 * First to play music and apear with a African American

**__Musical Characteristics__** **__Songs__** **__Known for Today__**
 * __Music__**
 * Composed swing style of music
 * Played the clarinet
 * Does not sing
 * For dancing
 * Party music
 * The way he plays make people get out there seats
 * Created his own type of music
 * Don't Be That Way
 * Let's Dance
 * Lazy River
 * Memories of you
 * Moonglow
 * Puttin on the Rite
 * Sing, Sing, Sing
 * Somebody Stole my Gal
 * He was the King of Swing
 * Made and Created swing off of Jazz