Benny Goodman: Benny Goodman. Soundtrack: Allied. The King of Swing! Famed clarinetist, composer ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and conductor, educated at the Lewis Institute in Chicago and a student of Schillinger and Schoepp. He was a clarinetist with the orchestras of Bix Beiderbecke, Jules Herbuveaux, Arnold Johnson and Ben Pollack, and also played in Broadway theater orchestras. He began to lead his own orchestras in 1934 at the Billy Rose Music Hall,...
Known For: Allied (Soundtrack("Flying Home")), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Soundtrack("You're a Sweet Little Headache")), Raging Bull (Soundtrack("Jersey Bounce")), The English Patient (Soundtrack("Wang Wang Blues", "One O'Clock Jump"))