On Sundays, his father took the children to free band concerts in Douglass Park, which was the first time Goodman experienced live professional performances. With little income and a large family, they moved to the Maxwell Street neighborhood, an overcrowded slum near railroad yards and factories that was populated by German, Irish, Italian, Polish, Scandinavian, and Jewish immigrants. They met in Baltimore, Maryland, and moved to Chicago before Goodman's birth. His mother, Dora Grisinsky, (1873–1964), came from Kovno. His father, David Goodman (1873–1926), came to the United States in 1892 from Warsaw in partitioned Poland and became a tailor. Goodman was the ninth of twelve children born to poor Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire.
"Playing music was a great escape for me from the poverty."
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