Benny Goodman's Role In Jazz

Benny Goodman really drew my attention after watching the film about him in Jazz class a few weeks ago. I was very surprised to see that his instrument of choice was the clarinet. I didn’t think the clarinet t was that influential in the musical world until I learned more about Benny. From the film I learned about how his father wanted his children to pick up music because he wanted them to make a career out of something they loved. Benny’s father was a tailor and according to the film he wasn’t very content in his profession. The film then when on to talk about how he picked up the clarinet because he was the smallest out of his brothers, it was far easy for him to handle. Benny started gathering notoriety for himself as a musician around