Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist known as the “King of Swing”.
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.” The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert.

Goodman performed nearly to the end of his life.