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,
Benny Goodman "Bugle Call Rag". NBC hired for Goodman for the radio program "Let's Dance". He needed new arrangements every week, so he was advised by Hammond to buy them from Fletcher Henderson. Goodman hired Henderson's band members to teach his musicians how to play the music. During the Depression, Henderson disbanded his orchestra because he was in debt. Goodman's band was one of three to perform on "Let's Dance", playing arrangements by Henderson along with hits such as "Get Happy" and "Limehouse Blues" by Spud Murphy. Goodman's portion of the program was broadcast too late at night to attract a large