Roy Burns (drummer)
Roy Burns (November 30, 1935 – May 2, 2018) was an American drummer, educator and percussion manufacturer.
Burns was one of the first to give drum clinics, and is credited with pioneering the concept.
Burns was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas.
Louie Bellson heard him play in Kansas City and advised him to study in New York City.
In August 1955, at the age of 20, Burns left Kansas with $300 and a drum set to study drumming in New York City.
Within a year, he was Woody Herman's drummer (at 21).
Shortly thereafter, he left to join Benny Goodman's band which was having a resurgence due to the film, "The Benny Goodman Story".
In 1958, Burns was with Goodman's band as they toured Europe and recorded several albums at the Brussels World's Fair.
In 1960, he was based in New York City, teaching and doing studio drumming on the NBC Staff Orchestra, the Merv Griffin Show, the Tonight Show, and others.
From 1968-1980, he was a staff artist with the Rogers Drum Company as a staff artist and traveled the world as a clinician, one of the first American drummers to perform clinics.
He is noted for his live and studio work, teaching, and his method books, as well as for pioneering the concept of a drum clinic.
In 1980, he began writing a column in "Modern Drummer Magazine" which ran until 1992.
In 1980, he partnered Ron Marquez to form Aquarian Accessories to manufacture percussion equipment.
Aquarian subsequently achieved enormous success with their drum heads, which it began producing in 1987.
Eddie Duran
Edward Lozano Duran( September 6, 1925 – November 22, 2019) was an American jazz guitarist from San Francisco.
He recorded often with Vince Guaraldi and was a member of the Benny Goodman orchestra during the 1970s.
Babe Russin
Irving" Babe" Russin( June 18, 1911 – August 4, 1984) was a tenor saxophone player.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Russin played with some of the best known jazz bands of the 1930s and 1940s, including Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller.
He led his own band briefly in the early 1940s.
He solos in the recording the Glenn Miller band made of Jerry Gray's composition," A String of Pearls" for Bluebird Records in 1941.
In 1950, Russin was credited as a musician with the backup band on two Frank Sinatra songs for Columbia records," Should I?" and" You Do Something To Me".
He co-wrote the instrumental" All the Things You Ain't" with Jimmy Dorsey which was released as a V- Disc 78 single, No. 391B, in March, 1945.
In 1953 he appeared briefly in the 1953 Universal- International movie" The Glenn Miller Story" Russin plays on the soundtrack to the 1954 Warner Bros.
Judy Garland movie" A Star Is Born", playing" Cheating on Me" with a small group.
He also appeared in the 1956 Universal- International movie" The Benny Goodman Story".
Lou McGarity
Robert Louis McGarity( July 22, 1917 – August 28, 1971) was an American jazz trombonist who was a member of the Benny Goodman big band during the late 1930s and early 1940s.
After serving in the military, he was a studio musician in New York City who performed in clubs at night with Eddie Condon and the Lawson/ Haggard band.
He was member of the World's Greatest Jazz Band at the end of the 1960s.
The Benny Goodman Story
The Benny Goodman Story is a biographical film starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, directed by Valentine Davies and released by Universal- International in 1956.
The film is based on the life of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded most of the clarinet solos used in the film.
The film captures several major moments in Goodman's life but it has been described as less than accurate in details.
Goodman's Jewish background is mentioned only implicitly, despite its playing a part in his artistic and personal endeavors for decades.
In one scene, where his mother tries to talk him out of a romance with Alice Hammond( played by Donna Reed), whom Goodman eventually married, she says," Bagels and caviar do n't mix."
Dark Country
Dark Country is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by and starring Thomas Jane in his directorial debut.
It also stars Lauren German and Ron Perlman.
Valentine Davies
Valentine Loewi Davies( August 25, 1905 – July 23, 1961) was an American film and television writer, producer, and director.
His film credits included" Miracle on 34th Street"( 1947)," Chicken Every Sunday"( 1949)," It Happens Every Spring"( 1949)," The Bridges at Toko- Ri"( 1954), and" The Benny Goodman Story"( 1955).
He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for" The Glenn Miller Story".
La Bestia humana
La Bestia humana is a 1957 Argentine film whose story is based on the novel" La Bête Humaine" by the French writer Émile Zola.
Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane( born Thomas Elliott III; February 22, 1969) is an American actor.
He is known for appearing in such films as" Evening Raga of the West"( 1987)," Boogie Nights"( 1997)," The Thin Red Line"( 1998)," Deep Blue Sea"( 1999)," The Punisher"( 2004)," The Mist"( 2007)," 1922"( 2017) and" The Predator"( 2018).
Jane's television roles include Mickey Mantle in the television film" 61*"( 2001) and starring in the HBO series" Hung"( 2009 – 2011) and the Syfy/ Amazon Video series" The Expanse"( 2015 – present).
He is the founder of RAW Studios, an entertainment company he uses to release comic books he has written, the first of which was" Bad Planet".
He made his directorial debut with the crime thriller" Dark Country"( 2009), in which he also starred.
Jess Stacy
Jesse Alexandria Stacy( August 11, 1904 – January 1, 1995) was an American jazz pianist who gained prominence during the swing era.
He is perhaps best known for his years with the Benny Goodman band during the late 1930s, particularly his performance at Goodman's Carnegie Hall concert in 1938.

Question: Which film whose director is younger, Dark Country or The Benny Goodman Story?
Answer: Dark Country