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,
Course of Empire (band) The band released their first single/EP, "Infested", ahead of the "Initiation" album in 1993. The single featured two new songs, "Joy" and "Let's Have A War" (a cover of a song by Fear), as well as a "Darwin Goodman" remix of "Infested" – Darwin from naturalist/evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin and Goodman from legendary big band clarinetist Benny Goodman. The remix sampled Goodman's performance of swinger Louis Prima's big band standard "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" and featured a different, swing-inspired drumbeat. In 1995, producer John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails, Gravity Kills) was tapped to produce their third record, "Telepathic