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The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938. First issued in 1950, the landmark recording captured the premiere performance given by a big band in the famed concert venue. The event has ...
The idea for what is now Carnegie Hall came from Leopold Damrosch, the conductor of Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society. [ 13 ] [ 68 ] The Oratorio Society had been looking for a permanent performance venue ever since it was founded in 1873. [ 69 ]
From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939. The concerts included performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry.
An orchestra from Afghanistan which defied the Taliban recently played at New York's Carnegie Hall. ... including two packed U.S. performances in August: one at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D ...
The film presents thirty pieces of music performed before an audience in the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall, New York City on 8 December 1991. [1] [2] The soloists mostly stand on a multi-level platform at the front of the stage, the back of which is decorated with three large, lavish panels of Christmas imagery inspired by designs on a Russian lacquer box.
Live at Carnegie Hall – 1969 is a live album by singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on November 12, 2021, by Rhino Records. [1] The album, which is the eighth overall release and the second live release of the Joni Mitchell Archives, features the storied, two-set recording that was captured at New York City's famed Carnegie Hall in 1969. [2]
Carnegie Hall Concert refers to several recordings made at New York City's Carnegie Hall: Carnegie Hall Concert (Buck Owens album), 1966; Carnegie Hall Concert (Dizzy Gillespie album), 1961; Carnegie Hall Concert (Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker album), 1975; Carnegie Hall Concert (Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra album), 1992; The Carnegie Hall ...
During their first US visit, Capitol Records planned to record the Beatles' performance on 12 February 1964 at Carnegie Hall, New York City in order to make a live album for US release. The recording did not happen because the American Federation of Musicians refused to grant permission.