Jazz Musician (30-May-1909 — 13-Jun-1986)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

James Lincoln Collier. Benny Goodman and the Swing Era. Oxford University Press. 1989. 432pp.

D. Russell Connor. The Record of a Legend: Benny Goodman. Greenwood Press. 1985. 382pp.

Donald Russell Connor. BG: Off the Record: A Bio-Discography of Benny Goodman. Gaildonna Publishers. 1958. 305pp.

Ross Firestone. Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman. W. W. Norton & Company. 1993. 522pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.bennygoodman.com/

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.459)

7. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.281)

8. Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians (p.265)

9. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.265)

10. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.606)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.281)

12. Webster's American Biographies (p.413)

13. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.199)

14. Celebrity Register 4th Issue (p.194)

15. The Oxford Dictionary of Music (p.353)

16. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th Edition (p.357)

17. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.208)

18. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.2, p.270)

19. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.345)

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