Benny Carter

About

Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson’s big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Albums/Songs:

• Cookin’ at Carlos I
• Jazz Giant
• Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Verve Sessions
• The Complete Benny Carter on Keynote
• Swingin’ the ’20s
• BBB & Co.
• Benny Carter All Stars
• Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson
• Three Great Swing Saxophones
• My Kind of Trouble
• Claude Tissendier / Saxomania Featuring Benny Carter
• Elegy in Blue
• In the Mood for Swing
• Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter
• Aspects
• Makin’ Whoopee
• Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Inc.
• My Man Benny, My Man Phil
• Summer Serenade
• New Jazz Sounds
• A Gentleman and His Music
• Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
• Central City Sketches
• Additions to Further Definitions
• The Fabulous Benny Carter Band

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