Benny Goodman in the USSR (1963)

Monument to Peter the Great in Leningrad.

Chariot on the arch of the General Staff building.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Panorama of the bridge across the Neva.

The face of American jazz musician Benny Goodman riding in an open car across the bridge.

Benny Goodman with an interpreter riding in an open car along the streets of Leningrad.

Entrance to the Winter Stadium.

Selling Benny Goodman's concert programs at the entrance to the Winter Stadium.

Spectators pass inside past the police cordon.

Selling programs.

Cover of Benny Goodman's concert program in Leningrad.

View of the stairs in the Hermitage.

Benny Goodman examining the collection of paintings and sculptures in the Hermitage.

Benny Goodman in the hall of contemporary art.

Benny Goodman's face.

Fragment of one of the paintings.

Benny Goodman during his inspection of the exposition.

Figures of Atlanteans at the entrance to the Hermitage.

Benny Goodman at the entrance examining drawings by a young artist.

The artist's face.

The artist signs her drawing and presents it to Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman in the backseat of a car during a trip to Leningrad.

Benny Goodman, accompanied by a guide, walks along the embankment to the cruiser Aurora.

The cruiser's commander welcomes Benny Goodman on board.

Goodman climbs the ladder to the forecastle.

Benny Goodman, standing by the forecastle gun that fired the signal shot on October 25, 1917, listens to the cruiser's commander's story.

A memorial plaque on the gun's shield.

The cruiser's commander pins a memorial badge to Goodman's lapel.

Benny Goodman, accompanied by a guide, examining an exhibition of ancient Russian icons.

Goodman's face, fragments of icons.

Goodman and his entourage in one of the halls of the exhibition.

Benny Goodman visiting the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

A bust of Dostoevsky on his grave.

Rimsky-Korsakov's grave.

Bas-relief on the monument.

Goodman examines the monuments in the Lavra cemetery.

View of the streets of Leningrad in the evening, traffic on the streets of the city.

View of the auditorium, faces of applauding spectators.

Performance of the jazz orchestra under the direction of Benny Goodman, Goodman plays the clarinet, faces of the spectators, views of the auditorium.

The spectators applaud.

Faces of the spectators.

Benny Goodman announces the performance of the next composition, the orchestra begins to play.

Benny Goodman examines the statue of the sphinx on the embankment of the Neva.

Benny Goodman talks to a fisherman at the parapet of the embankment.

Goodman puts bait on the hook.

Faces of Benny Goodman and a girl guide.

Goodman casts his line.

Goodman hooks a fish on the bank of the Dnieper in Kyiv.

Benny Goodman's face.

Goodman sits with fishing rods on the river bank.

Benny Goodman's catch.

The musicians of the jazz orchestra take pictures and examine the sights of Kyiv, listen to the guide.

View of the bridge across the Dnieper from Vladimir Hill.

Musicians looking at the Dnieper.

Monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv.

Views of Kyiv streets.

Musicians buying and eating ice cream on the street.

Benny Goodman with his catch in his hand goes to the hotel.

Benny Goodman hands his catch to the chef of the hotel restaurant.

Ready fish on the table.

Benny Goodman during dinner on the occasion of his stay in Kyiv, faces of Goodman and his friends invited to dinner.

Benny Goodman performs Mozart's music on the clarinet accompanied by the Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra, faces of the musicians.

Benny Goodman thanks the musicians after the performance of the musical piece.

A bus pulls up to a concert hall in Kyiv.

The musicians of Benny Goodman's jazz orchestra get off the bus and walk into the concert hall past fans greeting them.

Benny Goodman enters through the glass doors into the foyer of the concert hall.

Benny Goodman's orchestra performing, Goodman playing the clarinet, view of the concert hall.

The audience listens to the music.

Saxophones and other wind instruments in the hands of the musicians (panorama), faces of the audience applauding in time to the music.

Benny Goodman bows to the audience and the musicians.

View of part of the hall.

Benny Goodman thanks the audience and leaves the stage.

Benny Goodman leaves the concert hall building onto the street to the applause of the audience, gives autographs.

Kiev residents see Benny Goodman off after the concert.

The pianist's hands on the keys.

The musicians with their instruments walk along the airfield to the plane flying to Moscow.

Benny Goodman climbs the steps.

The plane taking off.

Airplane in flight.

Benny Goodman reading the Pravda newspaper in the airplane cabin and taking candy from a flight attendant.

View of the front of the airplane in flight.

Views of squares and streets of the cities where Benny Goodman toured - Tashkent, Tbilisi, Sochi.

Passengers in the airplane cabin.

Goodman reading a newspaper in the airplane.

A photograph of Khrushchev N.S. meeting with Benny Goodman at one of the concerts in Moscow, published in the newspaper.

Views of the center of Moscow and the Moscow Kremlin.

Views of Moscow streets and high-rise buildings, car traffic in Moscow.

View of the hall of the Luzhniki Sports Palace before the start of Benny Goodman's concert.

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet accompanied by a jazz orchestra, conducts the orchestra during one of the farewell concerts.

Musicians play wind instruments.

The drummer of the orchestra beats out the rhythm on the drum kit.

Faces of the spectators.

Benny Goodman conducts the orchestra.

View of the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the trumpeter plays a solo, panorama of part of the hall.

Performance of the Benny Goodman Orchestra on the stage of the hall in Luzhniki.

Benny Goodman finishes his performance.

Faces of the applauding spectators.

Fans rush to the stage for autographs (top).

View of part of the hall.

Faces of girls.

Benny Goodman plays a solo farewell composition on the clarinet, the clarinet in Benny Goodman's hands, faces of the spectators.

Panorama of the stage lighting.