"Which American jazz musician, clarinettist and bandleader, known as ""King of Swing"", ""Patriarch of the Clarinet"", ""The Professor"", and ""Swing's Senior Statesman"", in the mid-1930s led one of the most popular musical groups in America, which was also one of the first racially-integrated musical groups?"
Benny Goodman Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986), best known as Benny Goodman, was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in the United States. His concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938 is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music." Goodman's bands started the careers of many jazz musicians. During an era of
Anna Mae Winburn Anna Mae Winburn Anna Mae Winburn, née Darden (August 13, 1913 – September 30, 1999) was an African-American vocalist and jazz bandleader who flourished beginning in the mid-1930s. She is best known for having directed the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female big band that was perhaps one of the few — and one of the most — racially integrated dance-bands of the swing era. Anna Mae Winburn was born to a musical family in Port Royal, Tennessee, and migrated to Kokomo, Indiana, at a young age. Her mother's maiden name was Canell. She had three sisters: Matilda, Judy, and