The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938. First issued in 1950, the landmark recording captured the premiere performance given by a big band in the famed concert venue. The event has been described as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music." Both critical and public reception of the performances was
Seventh Avenue (novel) Seventh Avenue (novel) Seventh Avenue is a 1967 historical novel by Norman Bogner about the New York garment industry during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is about a poor young man (Jay Blackman) who seeks to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry. It was reissued in paperback in 1968 and re-released in hardcover in 1998. The book was adapted into a 1977 television miniseries of the same name by NBC, starring Steven Keats, Dori Brenner, Jane Seymour, Anne Archer, Ray Milland, Kristoffer Tabori, Eli Wallach, Jack Gilford and