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Benny Carter: Jazz Giant

Read "Jazz Giant" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
November 18, 2003

“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)

by AAJ Staff
October 28, 2003

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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Sketches On Standards

By Benny Carter

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2002

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Nuages

By Django Reinhardt

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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Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Sessions

By Benny Carter

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 2001

Article: Profile

Art Pepper

by Robert Spencer
May 11, 2000

It's all in his remarkable autobiography, Straight Life. Art Pepper was a junkie. First and foremost. He spent long stretches in prison, had innumerable wild adventures, and used drugs to the end of his life. He spent years devoted entirely to scoring the next dose. But in and through it all, he somehow managed to become ...

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Further Definitions: The Complete Further Definitions Sessions

By Benny Carter

Label: Sonar Kollektiv
Released: 1997

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Journey To Next

By Benny Carter

Label: Lightyear Entertainment
Released: 1996
Track listing: The Cosmic Eye Suite (1985); Jazz Waltz; Cosmic Joy; Sirius Samba; Urbanissimo (1966); Urbanissimo; Voyage To Next Suite (1973); Prologue; The Now; Distopia; The Then; Blues For Mother Earth; Conjuring Up New Worlds; Well, Mother, Do You Think They'll Make It?; Harlem Wednesday (1956); Harlem Wednesday; People, People, People (1974); People, People, People; Adventures Of An (1956); Adventures Of An; Of Men And Demons (1969); Of Men And Demons;

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