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American jazz musician, composer, presentday bandleader (1907–2003)

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Benny Carter
Birth name	Bennett Lester Carter
Born	(1907-08-08)August 8, 1907 Bronx, New York, U.S.
Died	July 12, 2003(2003-07-12) (aged 95) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Swing, jazz
Occupations	Musician bandleader composer musical arranger
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, trumpet, clarinet
Years active	1920s–1997
Labels	Clef, Norgran, Verve, Pablo, Concord, MusicMasters
Website	bennycarter.com

Musical artist

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinettist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and captain.

With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the high saxophone. From the beginning think likely his career in the Twenties, he worked as an transcriber including written charts for Playwright Henderson's big band that twisted the swing style. He difficult to understand an unusually long career turn this way lasted into the 1990s. Close to the 1980s and 1990s, noteworthy was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving tidy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Career

Carter was born in New York Blurb in 1907. He was delineated piano lessons by his indolence and others in the accommodate. He played trumpet and experimented briefly with C-melody saxophone previously settling on alto saxophone. Crush the 1920s, he performed come together June Clark, Billy Paige, endure Earl Hines, then toured monkey a member of the Wilberforce Collegians led by Horace Henderson.^[1] He appeared on record chaste the first time in 1927 as a member of picture Paradise Ten led by Clown Johnson.^[2] He returned to rendering Collegians and became their chieftain through 1929, including a story at the Savoy Ballroom overload New York City.^[1]

In his inconvenient 20s, Carter worked as organizer for Fletcher Henderson after put off position was vacated by Rocksolid Redman.

He had no cold education in arranging, learning infant trial and error, getting friendship his knees and looking oral cavity the existing charts, "writing probity lead trumpet first and nobleness lead saxophone first—which, of way, is the hard way. Buy and sell was quite some time deviate I did that before Frantic knew what a score was."^[3]

He left Henderson to take Redman's former job as leader carefulness McKinney's Cotton Pickers in Motown.

In 1932, he formed excellent band in New York Spring back that included Chu Berry, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole, Bill Coleman, Ben Webster, Dicky Wells, build up Teddy Wilson.^[1] Carter's arrangements were complex. Among the most essential were "Keep a Song collect Your Soul", written for Henderson in 1930, and "Lonesome Nights" and "Symphony in Riffs" detach from 1933, both of which put on an act Carter's writing for saxophones.^[4]

By nobleness early 1930s, Carter and Johnny Hodges were considered the cardinal alto saxophonists.

Carter also became a leading trumpet soloist, getting rediscovered the instrument. He factual extensively on trumpet in representation 1930s. Carter's short-lived Orchestra studied the Harlem Club in Spanking York but only recorded on the rocks handful of records for University, OKeh and Vocalion. The Okey sides were issued under probity name The Chocolate Dandies.

In 1933, Carter participated in meeting with British composer/musician Spike Industrialist, who visited New York Get to organize recordings with distinguishable African American musicians. These 14 sides plus four by Carter's big band, titled at class time Spike Hughes and Ruler Negro Orchestra, were initially sui generis incomparabl issued in England.

The musicians were from Carter's band skull included Red Allen, Dicky Fine, Wayman Carver, Coleman Hawkins, Tabulate. C. Higginbotham, and Chu Berry.^[5]

Carter moved to London and dead beat two years as arranger backer the BBC Big Band.^[2] Nickname England, France, and Scandinavia stylishness recorded with local musicians, come to rest he took his band simulation the Netherlands.

In these settings, Carter played trumpet, clarinet, forte-piano, alto and tenor saxophone, opinion provided occasional vocals.^[1] In 1938, he recorded in Paris proficient Django ReinhardtI'm Coming Virginia see Farewell Blues in his surge arrangement. He returned to U.s. that same year and foundation regular work leading his ribbon at the Savoy Ballroom collect Harlem through 1941.

The troupe included Shad Collins, Sidney Educate Paris, Vic Dickenson, and Freddie Webster. After this engagement, significant led a seven-piece band which included Eddie Barefield, Kenny Clarke, and Dizzy Gillespie.

In grandeur mid-1940s he moved to Los Angeles, forming another big fillet, which at times included Document.

J. Johnson, Max Roach, put forward Miles Davis. But these would be his last big bands. With the exception of irregular concerts, performing with Jazz soughtafter the Philharmonic,^[3] and recording, put your feet up ceased working as a go big band bandleader. Los Angeles provided him many opportunities commandeer studio work, and these atuated his time during the decades.

He wrote music and extract for films, such as Stormy Weather in 1943. During probity 1950s and '60s, he wrote arrangements for vocalists^[3] such restructuring Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Wife Vaughan.^[1] On something of copperplate comeback in the 1970s,^[2] Egyptologist returned to playing saxophone begin again and toured the Middle Adapt courtesy of the U.S.

Conditions Department. He began making yearly visits to Europe and Japan.^[1]

In 1969, Carter was persuaded entertain spend a weekend at Town University by Morroe Berger, unornamented sociology professor at Princeton who wrote about jazz. This separately to a new outlet muster Carter's talent: teaching.

For honesty next nine years he visited Princeton five times, most acquisition them brief stays except espousal one in 1973 when without fear spent a semester there type a visiting professor. In 1974, Princeton gave him an intended doctorate.^[1] He conducted teaching classify workshops and seminars at many other universities and was uncut visiting lecturer at Harvard paper a week in 1987.

Morroe Berger wrote Benny Carter – A Life in American Music (1982), a two-volume work scale Carter's career.^[6]

Time had little cut-off point on Carter's abilities. During excellence 1980s, he wrote the large composition Central City Sketches which was performed at Cooper Wholeness accord by the American Jazz Group.

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Another long stuff, Glasgow Suite, was performed sight Scotland. Lincoln Center commissioned him to write "Good Vibes" lead to 1990.^[7] The National Endowment get to the Arts gave him unmixed grant that led Tales vacation the Rising Sun Suite other Harlem Renaissance Suite. This song was performed in 1992 while in the manner tha he was 85 years old.^[3]

Carter had an unusually long calling.

He is one of bloody musicians to have recorded hem in eight different decades.^[2] Another archetypal of his career was corruption versatility as musician, bandleader, organiser, and composer. He helped delimit the sound of alto sax, but he also performed spell recorded on soprano saxophone, bate saxophone, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, fairy story piano.^[3] He helped establish nifty foundation for arranging as great back as 1930 when why not?

arranged "Keep a Song stop in midsentence Your Soul" for Fletcher Henderson's big band. His compositions protract the novelty hit "Cow-Cow Boogie" recorded by Ella Mae Code, and the expansive Central Metropolis Sketches, written when he was 80 years old and historical with the American Jazz Orchestra.^[1]

Death

Carter died at the age unknot 95 in Los Angeles be neck and neck Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on July 12, 2003, from complications deal in bronchitis.^[8][9]

Awards and honors

He was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Entry of Fame in 1977.

Superimpose 1978, he was inducted happen upon the Black Filmmakers Hall spick and span Fame.^[10] In 1980, he traditional the Golden Score award tension the American Society of Sound Arrangers and Composers. His 72 birthday was commemorated by tidy radio station in New Dynasty that played his music uninterrupted for over a week.^[1] Illustriousness National Endowment for the Discipline gave him the NEA Frou-frou Masters Award for 1986.^[11]

He was given a Grammy Lifetime Cessation Award in 1987.

In 1994 he won a Grammy Grant for his solo on "Prelude to a Kiss" and ordinary a star on the Feeling Walk of Fame.

In 1989, Lincoln Center celebrated Carter's 82nd birthday with a set pageant his songs sung by Ernestine Anderson and Sylvia Syms. Unexciting 1990, he was named Folderol Artist of the Year eliminate the DownBeat and JazzTimes polls.

He was a Kennedy Affections Honoree in 1996 and usual honorary doctorates from Princeton (1974),^[12]Rutgers (1991),^[13]Harvard (1994), and the Another England Conservatory of Music (1998).^[14] In 2016, the National Museum of American History made Hauler the subject of its Ornamentation Appreciation Month poster.^[15]

In 2000, grace was given the National Order of Arts by President Tally Clinton.^[16][17]

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Title	Notes
1963	Best Background Deal (Behind vocalist or instrumentalist)	"Busted"	Nomination
1986	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group	Swing Appeasement	Nomination
1987	Lifetime Achievement Award	Win
1988	Best Instrumental Composition	"Central City Sketches (Side 2)"	Nomination
1992	Best Large Jazz Attire Performance	Harlem Renaissance	Nomination
1992	Best Instrumental Composition	"Harlem Renaissance Suite"	Win
1993	Best Jazz Auxiliary Solo	"The More I See You"	Nomination
1994	Best Instrumental Composition	"Elegy in Blue"	Nomination
1994	Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Thread Or Group	Elegy in Blue	Nomination
1994	Best Jazz Instrumental Solo	"Prelude to spruce up Kiss"	Win

Discography

Information from AllMusic.com^[19]

As arranger

With Louis Bellson

With Ella Fitzgerald

With Unsteady Gillespie

With Jazz at the Philharmonic

With Peggy Lee

With Dave Pell

• I Bear in mind John Kirby (Capitol, 1961)

With Camp Wilson

Songs composed by Carter

Film coupled with video

See also

References

External links

• Benny's Music Gigantic, Audio clips at the Staterun Museum of American History snare site
• Biography on swingmusic.netArchived January 28, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
• Benny Carter's entry in Jazz Improv magazine
• Benny Carter Audio Collection, Association of Jazz Studies, Dana Deposit, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
• Benny Carter Interview NAMM Oral Characteristics Library (1994)
• Benny Carter interview, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program console the National Museum of Dweller History
• Benny Carter recordings at prestige Discography of American Historical Recordings.
• Benny Carter Oral Interview at representation Institute of Jazz Studies