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
79th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) 79th Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) 79th Street is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of 79th Street and Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, it is served by the 1 train at all times and 2 train during late nights. 79th Street opened as part of the original subway on October 27, 1904, with service from Brooklyn Bridge to 145th Street. Subsequent extensions changed this routing to trains running down the entirety of the West Side of Manhattan with branches to Brooklyn, Harlem, and