RECORDING OF “CHINA BOY” PERFORMED BY BENNY GOODMAN. Rachel Edelson: There's so much lore around that concert, as indeed there ought to be. Jon Hancock: It was busy outside of Carnegie Hall. Rachel ...

Ninety years ago, Benny Goodman, a white clarinetist and bandleader, breached American society’s entrenched color line like a clarinet’s high note piercing a fog of static. By revealing the racially ...

He was a nice Jewish boy from Chicago, the son of a tailor from Warsaw, and he played the clarinet. The experienced jazz musicians aboard the excursion boat were skeptical of the slight, bespectacled ...

You; Did I Remember; Stardust; You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me; Limehouse Blues; Our Love Is Here to Stay; Memories of You / Poor Butterfly / Moonglow; After You've Gone.

Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999. DAVID ...