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Benny Carter

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Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. In 1958, he performed with Billie Holiday at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival. The National Endowment for the Arts honored Benny Carter with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award for 1986. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, winner of the Grammy Award in 1994 for his solo "Prelude to a Kiss", and also the same year, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000 awarded the National Endowment for the Arts, National Medal of Arts, presented by President Bill Clinton.

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Discography

  • Wonderland
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Complete Edition, Volume 1 (1928-1931), 1995
  • Jazz Greats, Volume 58: Benny Carter: All of Me, 1998
  • Complete Edition, Volume 3 (1933-1934), 1995
  • Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Verve Sessions
  • Black Bottom
  • Cookin' at Carlos I
  • An Introduction to Benny Carter: His Best Recordings 1929-1940, 1993
  • The Chronological Classics: Benny Carter 1954
  • Songbook, 1996
  • My Man Benny, My Man Phil, 1996
  • Swinging the Blues
  • Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Inc., 1992
  • Jazz Giant, 2004
  • A Gentleman and His Music
  • Legends
  • More Cookin', 2002
  • Additions to Further Definitions, 1966
  • Elegy in Blue, 1994
  • All That Jazz: Live at Princeton, 1992
  • Songbook, Volume II, 1997
  • Symphony in Riffs, 1994
  • Swingin' The '20s, 2006
  • Live and Well in Japan
  • My Kind of Trouble (feat. Joe Pass, Art Hillery, Andy Simpkins & Ronnie Bedford), 1989
  • Love for Sale
  • Harlem Renaissance (disc 1)
  • In the Mood for Swing, 1987
  • The Complete Benny Carter on Keynote
  • Montreux 77
  • Americans Swinging in Paris, 2002
  • Volume 8: 1937
  • Aspects
  • King
  • Swingin' the '20s
  • Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson, 1995

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