Rachel a piano player and Benjie
Big Band Leader....played the clarinet.
No, while he did play and commission classical pieces he did not write any.
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 to June 13, 1986)
Not only was he in a number of bands (e.g. Ben Pollack's) he went on to form his own orchestra. In 1935 his band jump-started the swing music craze that was just beginning and took it to national...