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Benny Carter interview

Benny Carter
Jul 30, 2010

Hear jazz multi-instrumentalist Benny Carter in a 1989 conversation with Marian McPartland on Piano Jazz. Friday, August 6 at 2pm on ABC Jazz.

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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...

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