Benny Carter

Aliases: Benny Carter / American Jazz Orchestra
Benny Carter 3
Benny Carter 4
The Benny Carter Big Band
The Benny Carter Group
Benny Carter and His All Star Orchestra
Benny Carter & His Chocolate Dandies
Benny Carter & His Harlem Club Orch.
Benny Carter and His Orchestra
Benny Carter & His Orchestra
Benny Carter and His Swing Quartet
The Benny Carter Quartet
Benny Carter Quartet
Benny Carter's Orchestra
Johnny Gomez
Real name: Bennett Lester Carter
Born: August 8, 1907
Died: July 12, 2003
Country: United States
IPI: 00005368893 1 work
00005368991 28 works
Affiliation: ASCAP
Comments: Jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
Member of: The Capitol International Jazzmen Alto sax (1945-1946)
The Ellingtonians Alto saxophone
Family: Joe Kennedy Jr. Cousin
Related: Chocolate Dandies
Specs Powell Drummer (1940-1943)
Karl Drewo Part of the Benny Carter Sextet

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Releases

Albums

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
3, 4, 5, The Verve Small Group Sessions	Benny Carter	1991	Verve Records
Additions to Further Definitions	Benny Carter	August 1966	Impulse!
A Man Called Adam	Benny Carter featuring the Voices of Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Mel Tormé	1965	Reprise Records
Another Time, Another Place	Benny Carter & Phil Woods	1996	Evening Star
Aspects	Benny Carter	1959	United Artists Records
Benny Carter in Paris	Benny Carter	1964	20th Century Fox Records
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson	Benny Carter – Oscar Peterson	1987	Pablo
Benny Carter Plays Pretty	Benny Carter	1955	Norgran Records
Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter, Special Guest Helen Merrill	Billy Eckstine, Benny Carter, Helen Merrill	1987	EmArcy
Carter, Gillespie, Inc.	Benny Carter & Dizzy Gillespie	November 10, 1976	Pablo
Central City Sketches	Benny Carter / American Jazz Orchestra	1987	MusicMasters
Claude Tissendier / Saxomania featuring Benny Carter	Claude Tissendier / Saxomania featuring Benny Carter	1988	Ida Records
Cosmopolite	Benny Carter	1953	Clef Records
Dakota	Dakota Staton - Orchestra conducted by Benny Carter	January 1961	Capitol Records
For the Sweet Taste of Love	Harry "Sweets" Edison – Orchestra conducted by B. Carter	1964	Vee-Jay
Further Definitions	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	March 1962	Impulse!
Harlem Renaissance	Benny Carter	1992	MusicMasters
In the Mood for Swing	Benny Carter	1988	MusicMasters
Jazz Giant	Benny Carter	1958	Contemporary
Legends	Benny Carter	July 13, 1993	MusicMasters
'Live and Well in Japan!	Benny Carter	1978	Pablo Live
Marian McPartland Plays the Benny Carter Songbook	Marian McPartland with Special Guest Benny Carter	1990	Concord Jazz
Montreux '77	Benny Carter 4	1977	Pablo Live
My Kind of Trouble	Benny Carter, Joe Pass, Art Hillery, Andy Simpkins, Ronnie Bedford	1988	Pablo
My Man Benny, My Man Phil	Benny Carter/Phil Woods	1990	MusicMasters
New Jazz Sounds	Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris	1955	Norgran Records
Sax ala Carter!	Benny Carter Quartet	1960	United Artists Records
Softly	Dakota Staton - Orchestra conducted by Benny Carter	September 1960	Capitol Records
Songbook	Benny Carter	1996	MusicMasters Jazz
Sugar 'n' Spice	Peggy Lee with Orchestra conducted by Benny Carter	October 1962	Capitol Records
Summer Serenade	Benny Carter Quartet	1982	Storyville [DK]
Swingin' the '20s	The Benny Carter Quartet	1959	Contemporary
The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan	Sarah Vaughan, arranged and conducted by Benny Carter	1963	Roulette
The King	Benny Carter	1976	Pablo
The Tatum-Carter-Bellson Trio	Art Tatum - Benny Carter - Louis-Bellson	1955	Clef Records
The Urbane Mr. Carter	Benny Carter	1954	Norgran Records
Thirty by Ella	Ella Fitzgerald with Benny Carter's Music	September 1968	Capitol Records
Wonderland	The Benny Carter Group	1986	Pablo

Singles

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
A Lonesome Cup of Coffee	Abbey Lincoln with Orchestra conducted by Benny Carter	1956	Liberty
Babalú	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	March 21, 1941	Bluebird
Blue Light Blues	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1939	Victor
Cocktails for Two	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1941	Bluebird
Devil's Holiday	Benny Carter & His Harlem Club Orch.	March 1934	Columbia [US]
Flamingo	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	May 1954	Clef Records
Hurry, Hurry!	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	February 1944	Capitol Records
I'm a Woman	Peggy Lee with Orchestra conducted by Benny Carter	December 1962	Capitol Records
I'm Coming Virginia	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1938	Swing
I'm Lost	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	August 1944	Capitol Records
I'm the Caring Kind	Benny Carter and His All Star Orchestra	June 1946	DeLuxe [US-NJ]
Joe Turner Blues	Benny Carter and His All Star Orchestra	1941	OKeh
Just a Mood	Benny Carter & His Orchestra	1936	Vocalion [US]
Lonesome Nights	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1933	OKeh
Looking for a Boy	Benny Carter and His All Star Orchestra	March 1946	DeLuxe [US-NJ]
Make Me a Present of You	Ernie Andrews with Benny Carter Orchestra	December 1953	Trend Records
Nagasaki	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1937	Vocalion [US]
Papa Tree Top Blues	Miss Cornshucks with Benny Carter and His Orchestra	February 1951	Coral
Pom Pom	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	January 1941	Brunswick
Prelude to a Kiss	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	October 1947	Capitol Records
Rose Room	Benny Carter and His All Star Orchestra	1946	DeLuxe [US-NJ]
Skip It	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1937	Vocalion [US]
St. Louis Blues	Billie Holiday – Orchestra under direction of Benny Carter	February 1941	OKeh
Sunday	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1941	Bluebird
Sweet Georgia Brown	Benny Carter & His Chocolate Dandies	1947	Swing
Swing It	Benny Carter	1933	Columbia [EMI]
The Man I Love	Elisabeth Welch and Her Swing Quartet with Benny Carter	1936	Vocalion [US]
The Moon Is Low	The Roy Eldridge-Benny Carter Orchestra	1955	Clef Records
Three O'Clock in the Morning	Lou Rawls - Arranged and conducted by Benny Carter	May 5, 1965	Capitol Records
Wanna Go Home	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	October 1952	RCA Victor
What a Diff'rence a Day Made	Benny Carter and His Orchestra	1941	Bluebird
When Lights Are Low	Benny Carter and His Swing Quartet	1936	Vocalion [US]

Performances also appear on

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
30 by Ella [CD]	Ella Fitzgerald	1999	Capitol Jazz
Affair - A Story of a Girl in Love	Abbey Lincoln	February 1957	Liberty
Affair [CD]	Abbey Lincoln	1993	Capitol Jazz
American Love Songs	The Jim Cullum Jazz Band	September 11, 1997	Riverwalk Jazz
Collectors' Items	various artists	January 1948	Capitol Records
Gems of Jazz Vol. 4	various artists	1942	Decca
Hawaiian War Chant	Ella Fitzgerald	August 1968	Capitol Records
How High the Moon	Anita O'Day	1948	Signature [US]
I'm a Woman	Peggy Lee	February 1963	Capitol Records
Lou Rawls and Strings	Lou Rawls	October 1965	Capitol Records
Love You're Not the One for Me	Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra	March 1934	Brunswick
Norman Granz' Jam Session #2	various artists	March 1953	Mercury
Only You	Louis Armstrong	October 1955	Decca
Some of My Best Friends Are...The Sax Players	Ray Brown Trio	1996	Telarc
Sweet and Hot	Ella Fitzgerald	November 7, 1955	Decca
Tell All the World About You	Peggy Lee	July 1962	Capitol Records
The Sweetest Sounds	Peggy Lee	April 1962	Capitol Records
You Are Not My First Love	Martha Davis & Spouse	November 1957	ABC-Paramount

Tributes

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Another Time Another Place - The Music of Benny Carter	Ira Nepus – Steve Moore	2006	Jazzed Media
A Salute to Benny Carter	The Two O'Clock Lab Band	1999	Klavier Records
Doozy - Plays the Music of Benny Carter & Clark Terry	Noël Akchoté	August 6, 2015	Noël Akchoté Downloads
Kansas City Suite - The Music of Benny Carter	Count Basie & His Orchestra	1960	Roulette
Mel Martin Plays Benny Carter	Mel Martin	1995	Enja Records
Souvenir - Gene DiNovi Plays Music of Benny Carter	Gene DiNovi	December 1999	Hep Jazz
The Legend - From the Pen of Benny Carter	Count Basie & His Orchestra	May 1963	Columbia [EMI]
The Warren Vaché Quintet Remembers Benny Carter	The Warren Vaché Quintet	May 12, 2015	Arbors Records
To Benny and Johnny with Love from Herb Geller	Herb Geller	July 9, 2002	Hep Jazz
With Thanks to Benny Carter	Jean-François Bonnel and His Swinging Jazz Cats	2017	Arbors Records

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