While with the Goodman band, Walt was nominated by Benny as his backup player for the clarinet solos.

When that engagement closed, Walt signed on for a summer contract with the Goodman band playing concerts in other cities.

We ate at a table in the living room, the kitchen was too small, listening to the Goodman band, watching the fire move, and smelling the wood smoke.

She stayed with the Goodman band for only two years.

Mr. Levinsky, who joined the Goodman band in 1956 as an alto saxophonist, remained there, off and on, for 19 years.

The film, while an average biopic of its day, was heralded for its music, featuring many alumni of the Goodman band.

However, life in the Goodman band became increasingly uncongenial for him.

The Goodman band and quartet took over the stage and performed the numbers that had already made them famous.

The immediate reason, he explained, was that he had grown tired of playing the same charts night after night with the Goodman band.

Mr. Griffin was barely out of his teens when he joined the Goodman band.