Benny Goodman was entitled to spend two weeks at a summer camp near Chicago. It was the only time he could get away from his bleak neighborhood. He also received two years of instruction from classically trained clarinetist Franz Schoepp. When he was 17, his father was killed by a passing car after stepping off a streetcar. His father's death was "the saddest thing that ever happened in our family", Goodman said. He attended Lewis Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology) in 1924 as a high-school sophomore and played clarinet in a dance hall band. His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists
Instrument Soundtrack Instrument Soundtrack Instrument Soundtrack is a 1999 album by American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It is a mainly instrumental soundtrack for the documentary ("Instrument") about the band produced by the band and filmmaker Jem Cohen. The soundtrack mostly consists of previously unreleased songs and studio outtakes culled from Fugazi's history to that point, as well as seven demo versions of songs from their proper albums (six from 1998's "End Hits" and one from 1993's "In on the Kill Taker"). Of particular note is the song "I'm So Tired", a piano ballad played and sung by Ian MacKaye, which is a significant