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Benny's Boys

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In 1940 Benny Goodman lured trumpeter
Cootie Williams away from Duke Ellington. The result was a powerful addition to the Goodman band and a new seven-piece small group. In this fourth programme, Geoffrey Smith looks at the work of this septet which also included tenor saxophonist Georgie Auld.

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Benny Goodman
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Cootie Williams
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Geoffrey Smith
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Georgie Auld.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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