There was a time when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-oriented bands, when jazz orchestra dominated the pop charts and when influential clarinetists were household names. During 1935-46, the swing era, such musicians as clarinetists Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Jimmy Dorsey, trombonists Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey, trumpeter Harry James, pianist Count Basie, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, drummer Gene Krupa and the unclassifiable Duke Ellington were not only leaders of very popular big bands but international celebrities.
Although swing music really caught on with the masses with the emergence of Benny Goodman in 1935, the style had already existed for more than a decade. Jazz in its earliest forms had emphasized spontan
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