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,
Tim Goodman his own band, Tim Goodman continued to tour and perform live at clubs and music festivals including the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, with longtime friends Emmylou Harris and John Prine. Goodman currently tours and records with Magic Music Band, a long-running country-rock band which Goodman originally co-founded during the 1970s with Will Luckey. Goodman and Luckey had been childhood friends and developed an interest in music while attending boarding school together in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Magic Music Band formed in Boulder, Colorado and performed with an impressive list of similar acts including Old & In the Way,