Jazz band but a few early jazz musicians such as Alcide Nunez preferred the C soprano clarinet, and many New Orleans jazz brass bands have used an E soprano clarinet. Swing clarinetists such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman led successful big bands and smaller groups from the 1930s onward. Band leader Duke Ellington, active from the 1920s to the 1970s, used the clarinet as the lead instrument in his works, with several players of the instrument (Barney Bigard, Jimmy Hamilton and Russell Procope) spending a significant portion of their careers in his orchestra. Harry Carney, primarily Ellington's baritone saxophonist,
Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman Peggy Lee Sings with Benny Goodman is a jazz album by Peggy Lee backed by Benny Goodman. It was released in 1957. This is an album of Peggy Lee's early original recordings made with the Benny Goodman orchestra recorded in 1941-'43. The "Harmony" Lp was released in 1957 and was a reissue of the 1952 Columbia EP which contained 4 songs; "That Did It Marie, My Old Flame, Elmer's Tune and "We'll Meet Again". For some reason neither the EP or the LP contains Peggy Lee's first hit with the Goodman orchestra, "Somebody Else