Benny Carter
Genres:
Blues, Jazz
Meta styles:
Big Band/Swing, Early Acoustic Blues, East Coast Blues, Jazz Instrument, Jump Blues/Piano Blues, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
Styles:
Big Band, East Coast Blues, Jump Blues, Mainstream Jazz, Regional Blues, Saxophone Jazz, Swing

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 ? July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognised as such by other jazz musicians who called him King. As a youth, Carter lived in Harlem around the corner from Bubber Miley who was Duke Ellington's star trumpeter. Carter was inspired by Miley and bought a trumpet, but when he found he couldn't play like Miley he traded the trumpet in for a saxophone.

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Best Of The Best (Remastered)

Best Of The Best (Remastered)

Year:
2020
Tracks:
12
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Chronological Classics: 1952-1954

Chronological Classics: 1952-1954

Year:
2005
Tracks:
20
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Jazz Ballads 14 CD2

Jazz Ballads 14 CD2

2
Year:
2004
Tracks:
18
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Jazz Ballads 14 CD1

Jazz Ballads 14 CD1

Year:
2004
Tracks:
16
Bitrate:
320 kbps
1948-1952

1948-1952

Year:
2003
Tracks:
22
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Sketches On Standards (With Oscar Peterson Trio)

Sketches On Standards (With Oscar Peterson Trio)

Year:
2002
Tracks:
17
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Swinging The Blues CD2

Swinging The Blues CD2

Year:
2000
Tracks:
17
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Swinging The Blues CD1

Swinging The Blues CD1

Year:
2000
Tracks:
22
Bitrate:
320 kbps
Chronological Classics: 1946-1948

Chronological Classics: 1946-1948

Year:
1999
Tracks:
25
Bitrate:
320 kbps
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