Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography

During the 100 years since Benny Goodman's birth, interest in his life and music remains as intense as ever---yet there has been no recent discographical information. Benny Goodman: A Supplemental Discography fills that gap, gathering materials uncovered since the last bio-discography of Goodman in 1996. This new annotated discography, presented chronologically, updates some previously known information and adds nearly 100 new discoveries, including more than 65 previously unknown radio broadcasts and films.

Jessup presents details about live appearances ranging from the mid-1980s back to the 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, including an analysis of the controversial 1999 Sony reissue of that concert. Jessup also offers an essay detailing some of the difficulties of cataloging and preserving recordings in a digitally progressive age, as "new technology" can assist with---or hinder---collecting and evaluating vintage music. An additional discography of smaller, collector-oriented labels describes nearly 400 reissues and collectible LPs, tapes, and CDs personally audited by Jessup and his associates, and details of all 182 shows of the famous Camel Caravan radio series (1936-1939) are offered in print for the first time. The volume concludes with a list of those associated personally or professionally with Benny Goodman who have passed away since 1996, as well as indexes by song title and musician.

David Jessup is a musician, collector, archivist, broadcaster, consultant, and writer. He wrote liner notes for Benny Goodman: The NBC Broadcasts from Chicago's Congress Hotel (1998) and Benny Goodman 1930-1933 (2008), and he was a consultant on Benny Goodman: The Radio Years Vol. 1, The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (remastered 1999) and Classic Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (2008).