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[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Benny was given the clarinet to learn because his father said he was too
> small to try anything else.  He made the best of it, but had a lot of
> disappointments early in his career.  He, Artie Shaw, and Woodie Herman
> were, in my opinion, the best of the era in which I grew up.
> 
> I have, in my early years, tried all of the woodwinds except for the flute
> and picollo, and, believe me, the double reeds like the oboe and bassoon 
> are
> the most difficult.
> 
> Jim Nichols


Benny Goodman got his early lessons at Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago,
I got my early lessons in Cello and music composition there. And theater.

Mark William Rabiner