On This Day January 16

Benny Goodman's concert on January 16, 1938 at New York City's Carnegie Hall was the premiere performance given by a jazz orchestra in the famed venue. It was considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a legitimate form of music. The LP, The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, issued in 1950, was the first ever double album, and one of the first records on the new long-playing format to sell over a million copies.

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