Benny, full name Benjamin David Goodman. 1909–86, US jazz clarinet player and bandleader, whose treatment of popular songs created the jazz idiom known as swing
Goodman in American English
(ˈgʊdmən)
ˈBenny (ˈbɛni) (born Benjamin David Goodman) 1909-86; U.S. clarinetist & bandleader
goodman in American English
(ˈgʊdmən)
nounWord forms: pluralˈgoodmen (ˈgʊdmən) Archaic
1.
a husband or master of a household
2.
a title equivalent to Mr., applied to a man ranking below a gentleman