Benjamin David Goodman was ... When Benny was 10 years old, his father sent him to study music at Kehelah Jacob Synagogue in Chicago. There, Benny learned the clarinet under the tutelage of Chicago ...

Fourteen years ago, about the time Benny Goodman was doing imitations of Ted Lewis in a Chicago vaudeville house, Paul Whiteman & band gave a jazz concert in Manhattan’s Aeolian Hall.