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Benny Goodman's Sextet is a studio album by Benny Goodman released by Columbia Records in 1944.[1][2][3][4][5]

Released1944
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Released1944
LabelColumbia
Benny Goodman chronology
Benny Goodman's Sextet
(1944)
Benny Goodman Sextet Session
(1946)
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Release

The album was released as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. C-102), with eight tracks across eight sides.[5][6]

Background

According to The Nation, the "eight performances [were] chosen by Goodman himself from all that he recorded with various six-man combinations".[4]

Reception

Coin Machine Journal wrote upon the album's release: "It's full of the kind of hot music that really draws today's crowds".[3]

Track listing

Set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records (Columbia set C-102)[6]

All the tracks are marked as "fox trot".

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Side 1
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1."Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland)"Williams–HickmanBenny Goodman Sextet 
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Side 2
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1."Air Mail Special"Benny GoodmanBenny Goodman and his Sextet 
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Side 3
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1."Flying Home"De Lange–Goodman–HamptonBenny Goodman Sextet 
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Side 4
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1."I Found a New Baby"S. Williams–PalmerBenny Goodman and his Sextet 
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Side 5
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1."Poor Butterfly"Golden HubbellBenny Goodman Sextet 
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Side 6
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1."Grand Slam"GoodmanBenny Goodman Sextet 
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Side 7
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1."The Wang Wang Blues"Busse–Johnson–MuellerBenny Goodman Sextet 
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Side 8
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1."As Long As I Live"Koehler–ArlenBenny Goodman and his Sextet 
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