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Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Bix Beiderbecke all launched their careers at the Sunset.
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This was no Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw riffing with glissandos, over two octaves of pure melody.
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The trumpeter played with the BBC Big Band and performed for prominent jazz musicians Johnny Dankworth, Maynard Ferguson and Benny Goodman.
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The Belgian-born Thielemans has played with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Paul Simon, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Billy Joel, Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones and many others.
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The sisters specialised in swing and played with some of the top band leaders of the era, including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
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Guests Marilyn Monroe and Benny Goodman added glamour in the 1950s, while a golf course kept visitors occupied when they were not busy spotting local grizzly bears and bighorn sheep.
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Though he was born in London, his family moved to Chicago and Styne soon found himself playing in dance bands with musicians like Bix Beiderbecke and Benny Goodman.
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Guests Marilyn Monroe and Benny Goodman added glamour in the 1950s, while a golf course kept visitors occupied when they were not busy spotting local grizzly bears and longhorn sheep.
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He added jazz to his critical portfolio two years later, publishing some of the first essays of substance about such now-legendary artists as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.
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Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.
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