Goodman became the King of Swing the night of Aug. The body was found by a housekeeper, Anna Lekander, Mr. Goodman apparently died while taking a nap on a guest-room couch in his apartment at 200 East 66th Street. Morning, according to Lloyd Rauch, his personal assistant. The tall, apple-cheeked bandleader with the horn-rimmed glasses had had a pacemaker implanted in 1984, but he had been active and about town in recent months, and had appeared to be in good health yesterday He gave music character and style.'' Apple Cheeks and Horn-Rims ''The most important thing that Benny Goodman did,'' he said, ''was to put Teddy Wilson and me in the quartet. Goodman was the first major music figure to put black and white musicians together on stage in the 1930's. Lionel Hampton, the vibraphonist, recalled that Mr. The death of the man who brought jazz to Carnegie Hall and enthralled millions with renditions of ''Sweet Georgia Brown'' and ''Stompin' at the Savoy'' broughtĮxpressions of grief and loss from his colleagues. WILSONīenny Goodman, the King of Swing whose clarinet led a generation of music fans into the Big Band era in the 1930's, died yesterday afternoon at his Manhattan apartment, apparently of a heart attack. JOBITUARY BENNY GOODMAN, KING OF SWING, IS DEAD By JOHN S. Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher Resources
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