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Sax A La Carter!

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2004

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Benny Carter: Sax ala Carter!

Read "Sax ala Carter!" reviewed by Mitchell Seidel


This album represents just a small facet of Benny Carter's musical activity during the '50s and '60s, a good deal of which was occupied by writing and arranging in Hollywood. Nevertheless, Carter always seemed to be involved in a number of projects, this 1960 release being just one. Accompanied by a first-rate trio of Jimmy Rowles ...

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Jazz Giant

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Old Fashioned Love 2. I'm Coming Virginia 3. A Walkin' Thing 4. Blue Lou 5. Ain't She Sweet 6. How Can You Lose 7. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me.

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Benny Carter: Jazz Giant

Read "Jazz Giant" reviewed by David Rickert


“Jazz giant” is a term immediately greeted with skepticism, yet Benny Carter fills the role better than most. Perhaps the greatest of the big band leaders that most people have never heard of, Carter finally settled down in Hollywood in the fifties and began to record the full-length albums that eventually cemented his reputation. Jazz Giant ...

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Benny Carter (1907-2003)

Read "Benny Carter (1907-2003)" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Submitted on behalf of Michael Anthony During 2003 we lost the last survivors of a hardy and influential generation. They were men and women who were born at the turn of the last century. They influenced the culture of the 20th Century. These tireless artists via the new mediums that were available to ...

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Nuages

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nuages; Minor Swing; Swing Guitars; After You’ve Gone; Limehouse Blues; Georgia On My Mind; Nagasaki; Shine; Charleston; Exactly Like You; You’re Driving Me Crazy; Ain’t Misbehaving’; Rose Room; Chicago; Out of Nowhere *; Sweet Georgia Brown; Japanese Sandman; Farewell Blues.

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Sketches On Standards

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2002


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