The family -- The musical apprentice -- The rise of the American dance band -- Pollack Orchestra -- Influences on Goodman -- First recordings -- The Free Lance -- Enter John Hammond -- The Free-Lance recordings -- Goodman forms a band -- First Victor records -- Making it at the Palomar -- Finally, success -- Swing-band phenomenon -- The Victor classics -- The star -- Famous Carnegie Hall Concert -- The Carnegie Hall band -- The first small-group recordings -- The Columbia Band -- The first Columbia recordings -- The Sextet -- Marriage and family -- An era ends -- Bop band -- Classical Goodman -- The last bands -- The legacy of Benny Goodman -- Selected discography.
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