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===Early career===
His early influences were New Orleans jazz clarinetists who worked in Chicago, such as [[Jimmie Noone]],<ref name="Swing">{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=Swing |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |location=San Francisco |isbn=978-0-87930-600-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/swing00yano/page/59 59] |url=https://archive.org/details/swing00yano/page/59 }}</ref> [[Johnny Dodds]], and [[Leon Roppolo]]. He learned quickly, becoming a strong player at an early age, and was soon playing in bands. He made his professional debut in 1921 at the Central Park Theater on the West Side of Chicago. He entered [[Harrison Technical High School]] in Chicago in 1922. At fourteen he became a member of the musicians' union and worked in a band featuring Bix Beiderbecke.<ref name="bennygoodman.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography.html |title=The King of Swing |publisher=Benny Goodman |date=January 16, 1938 |access-date=December 27, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102161128/http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography.html |archive-date=January 2, 2013 }}</ref> Two years later, in 1926, he joined the [[Ben Pollack]] Orchestra and made his first recordings.<ref name="Swing" />