The Jazz Life — Jess Stacy and Gene Krupa
4 min readDec 24, 2021
The Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert of 1938
On a cold and wet Sunday night in January 1938 the Benny Goodman Orchestra — and a few very illustrious guests such as Count Basie, Lester Young and Buck Clayton — played Carnegie Hall in New York.
They were the first jazz orchestra ever to do so, and changed forever the way jazz was perceived, and one man, the pianist…
