Carter, Benny

Overview

Works:	2,572 works in 4,984 publications in 5 languages and 28,806 library holdings
Genres:	Jazz Jazz vocals Biography Drama Popular music Bop (Music) Live sound recordings Western films Comedy films Interviews
Roles:	Performer, Author, Instrumentalist, Conductor, Composer, Arranger, Singer, Producer, Interviewee, Other, Musician, Author of introduction, Contributor, Editor, Honoree
Classifications:	M1366, 781.65

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Benny Carter

Benny Carter, a life in American music by Morroe Berger( Book )
Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community by Ashyia N Henderson( )
Contemporary musicians : profiles of the people in music by Michael L LaBlanc( )
The alto saxophone, trumpet and clarinet of Benny Carter, 1927-1946 : with a critical assessment of all his known records and broadcasts by Jan Evensmo( Book )
Benny Carter : symphony in riffs( Visual )

Benny Carter by Morroe Berger( Book )
Central Avenue sounds. Clora Bryant by Clora Bryant( Book )
Central Avenue sounds Art Farmer by Art Farmer( )
Central Avenue sounds Gerald S. Wilson by Gerald Wilson( )
All of me by Benny Carter( Recording )
Symphony in riffs by Benny Carter( Visual )
The swing era, one more time : Swing lives!( Book )
A salute to Benny Carter : with the Harvard Jazz Band by Benny Carter( Recording )
Benny Carter portrait collection( Visual )
Benny Carter and Edward Berger discuss Carter's career and play examples of his music by Benny Carter( Recording )
Central Avenue sounds William Douglass by Bill Douglass( )
Central Avenue sounds Gerald Wiggins by Gerald Wiggins( )
[Interview with Benny Carter, legendary alto saxophonist/leader/composer at 80] by Benny Carter( Recording )
Carter, Bennett Lester (Benny) : composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger by Authors and Publishers American Society of Composers( )
Oral history interview with Yusef Lateef by Yusef Lateef( Visual )

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Most widely held works by Benny Carter

Further definitions : the complete further definitions sessions by Benny Carter( Recording )

43 editions published between 1961 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jive at five : [the style-makers of jazz, 1920s-1940s] by Count Basie( Recording )

3 editions published between 1976 and 2007 and held by 421 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The style-makers of Jazz 1920's-1940's

Jazz giant by Benny Carter( Recording )

36 editions published between 1958 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Buck and the preacher by Sidney Poitier( Visual )

8 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in English and held by 385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the story of the perils faced by a wagon train of courageous black settlers. It's the 1860s and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has just freed the country's slaves, but a group of vigilate nightraiders are resentful of the black men's newly-gained freedom

The complete RCA Victor recordings by Dizzy Gillespie( Recording )

1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lady in autumn : the best of the Verve years by Billie Holiday( Recording )

4 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the mood for swing by Benny Carter( Recording )

22 editions published between 1988 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

All that jazz by Ella Fitzgerald( )

11 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Count Basie jam : Montreux '77 by Count Basie( )

15 editions published between 1977 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Benny Carter meets Oscar Peterson by Benny Carter( )

22 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 269 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An anthology of big band swing (1930-1955)( Recording )

3 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The best of Benny Carter by Benny Carter( )

17 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Coleman Hawkins : Ken Burns jazz by Coleman Hawkins( Recording )

2 editions published in 2000 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 254 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Solomon Jazz Collection

Carter, Gillespie, inc. by Benny Carter( )

12 editions published between 1976 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

King by Benny Carter( )

23 editions published between 1976 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Swingin' the 20's by Benny Carter( )

29 editions published between 1958 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Live and well in Japan by Benny Carter( )

19 editions published between 1978 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 236 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bird : the original recordings of Charlie Parker by Charlie Parker( Recording )

1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elegy in blue by Benny Carter( Recording )

12 editions published between 1994 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Harlem renaissance by Benny Carter( Recording )

13 editions published between 1992 and 1996 in 4 languages and held by 223 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Audience Level

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Related Identities

Hawkins, Coleman Singer Performer Conductor Author Instrumentalist Composer
Webster, Ben 1909-1973 Performer Instrumentalist Author Composer
Basie, Count 1904-1984 Conductor Performer Instrumentalist Author Composer
Eldridge, Roy 1911-1989 Singer Conductor Performer Instrumentalist Author
Peterson, Oscar 1925-2007 Performer Instrumentalist Author Composer
Brown, Ray 1926-2002 Conductor Performer Instrumentalist Author Composer
Ellington, Duke 1899-1974 Performer Musician Conductor Author Instrumentalist Composer
Kessel, Barney Performer Instrumentalist
Bellson, Louis Arranger Performer Conductor Author Instrumentalist Composer
Edison, Harry 1915-1999 Performer Instrumentalist Author

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Associated Subjects

Actors, Black African American actors African American artists African American athletes African American authors African American businesspeople African American leadership African American musicians African American politicians African American religious leaders African Americans Alternate takes (Sound recordings) American Federation of Musicians Artists, Black Athletes, Black Authors, Black Basie, Count, Big band music Blacks Bop (Music) Businesspeople, Black California--Los Angeles California--Los Angeles--Central Avenue Carter, Benny Collette, Buddy, Composers Dance orchestra music Freedmen Hawkins, Coleman Jazz Jazz ensemble with orchestra Jazz musicians Jazz vocals Live sound recordings Man-woman relationships Music Musicians Musicians, Black Piano music (Jazz) Popular music Saxophone music (Jazz) Saxophone with dance orchestra Saxophone with jazz ensemble Saxophonists Suites (Jazz ensemble with orchestra) Swindlers and swindling Swing (Music) Trumpet music (Jazz) Trumpet with jazz ensemble United States

Alternative Names

B. Carter

Benny Carter 4

Benny Carter Amerikaans trompettist (1907-2003)

Benny Carter amerykański muzyk jazzowy

Benny Carter en amerikansk jazzmusiker

Benny Carter músic estatunidenc

Benny Carter musicien américain

Benny Carter músico estadounidense

Benny Carter sassofonista, trombettista e arrangiatore statunitense

Benny Carter US-amerikanischer Jazz-Saxophonist

Benny Carter yhdysvaltalainen jazzmuusikko

Benny Cater

Carter, Bennet Lester 1907-2003

Carter, Bennett L. 1907-2003

Carter, Bennett Lester

Carter Bennett Lester 1907-2003

Clump, Clarence

Μπένι Κάρτερ

Бенни Картер

בני קרטר

בני קרטר מוזיקאי אמריקאי

بنی کارتر

ベニー・カーター

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Languages

English (93)

German (10)

French (3)

Spanish (2)

Dutch (1)

Covers

Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community