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| Master Lessons |
| Benny Carter |
| első megjelenés éve: 2003 |
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| (2003)
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| 3.746 Ft
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| 1. | You Belong to Me
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| 2. | Gone with the Wind
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| 3. | I Got It Bad
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| 4. | Isn't It Romantic
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| 5. | Some Other Spring
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| 6. | These Things You Left Me
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| 7. | Long Ago and Far Away
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| 8. | I've Got the World on a String
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| 9. | 'Round Midnight
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| 10. | Alone Together
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| 11. | Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
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| 12. | Cocktails for Two
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| 13. | Key Largo
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| 14. | Love Is Cynthia
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| 15. | Sunday Afternoon
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| 16. | Georgia on My Mind
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| 17. | Street Scene
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| 18. | Imagination
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| 19. | Pick Yourself
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| 20. | I Get a Kick Out of You
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Jazz / Ballads, Standards
Benny Carter
Art Drellinger - Sax (Tenor)
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Billy Taylor - Piano
Buddy Rich - Drums
Chris Columbus - Drums
Claude Jones - Trombone
Dick Vance - Trumpet
Doc Cheatham - Trumpet
Eddie Barefield - Sax (Alto)
Frank Rehak - Trombone
J.C. Heard - Drums
Lucky Thompson - Sax (Tenor)
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Paul "Scooby" Smith - Piano
Ray Brown - Bass
Rene Hall - Guitar
Taft Jordan - Trumpet
Tyree Glenn - Trombone
Master Lessons is the title of a 20-track Benny Carter collection released by Bud Music in 2005. It demonstrates exactly how Carter, armed with more than 25 years of professional experience, adapted to the swiftly changing currents of popular taste and competitive streamlining in the musical entertainment industry during the early 1950s. Between August 18 and December 4, 1952, Carter recorded for the Victor and Verve labels in both Los Angeles and New York City. "You Belong to Me" is a dramatically staged alto sax ballad with backing by pianist Paul Smith and a large, lush studio orchestra. The next 12 titles find Carter working with one of producer Norman Granz's favorite rhythm sections: Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich. On eight of these tracks, the quintet is surrounded by a string section. "Love Is Cynthia," "Sunday Afternoon," and "Georgia on my Mind" were Victor recordings cut on the East Coast with Benny Carter leading his own 16-piece orchestra. Tracks 17-20 originally appeared on a 10" LP entitled Cosmopolite. Here Carter is back with the Oscar Peterson trio, now graced with the subtler and more refined drumming of J.C. Heard. Altogether a pleasant glimpse into the sophisticated sounds of Benny Carter as recorded during the first four months of his 45th year on the planet. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Benny Carter
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Aug 08, 1907 in New York, NY
Died: Jul 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, East Coast Blues, Jump Blues, Mainstream Jazz, Swing
To say that Benny Carter had a remarkable and productive career would be an extreme understatement. As an altoist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and occasional trumpeter, Carter was at the top of his field since at least 1928, and in the late '90s, Carter was as strong an altoist at the age of 90 as he was in 1936 (when he was merely 28). His gradually evolving style did not change much through the decades, but neither did it become at all stale or predictable except in its excellence. Benny Carter was a major figure in every decade of the 20th century since the 1920s, and his consistency and longevity were unprecedented.
Essentially self-taught, Benny Carter started on the trumpet and, after a period on C-melody sax, switched to alto. In 1927, he made his recording debut with Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten. The following year, he had his first big band (working at New York's Arcadia Ballroom) and was contributing arrangements to Fletcher Henderson and even Duke Ellington. Carter was with Henderson during 1930-1931, briefly took over McKinney's Cotton Pickers, and then went back to leading his own big band (1932-1934). Already at this stage he was considered one of the two top altoists in jazz (along with Johnny Hodges), a skilled arranger and composer ("Blues in My Heart" was an early hit and would be followed by "When Lights Are Low"), and his trumpet playing was excellent; Carter would also record on tenor, clarinet (an instrument he should have played more), and piano, although his rare vocals show that even he was human.
In 1935, Benny Carter moved to Europe, where in London he was a staff arranger for the BBC dance orchestra (1936-1938); he also recorded in several European countries. Carter's "Waltzing the Blues" was one of the very first jazz waltzes. He returned to the U.S. in 1938, led a classy but commercially unsuccessful big band (1939-1941), and then headed a sextet. In 1943, he relocated permanently to Los Angeles, appearing in the film Stormy Weather (as a trumpeter with Fats Waller) and getting lucrative work writing for the movie studios. He would lead a big band off and on during the next three years (among his sidemen were J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, and Max Roach) before giving up on that effort. Carter wrote for the studios for over 50 years, but he continued recording as an altoist (and all-too-rare trumpeter) during the 1940s and '50s, making a few tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic and participating on some of Norman Granz's jam-session albums. By the mid-'60s, his writing chores led him to hardly playing alto at all, but he made a full "comeback" by the mid-'70s, and maintained a very busy playing and writing schedule even at his advanced age. Even after the rise of such stylists as Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and David Sanborn (in addition to their many followers), Benny Carter still ranks near the top of alto players. His concert and recording schedule remained active through the '90s, slowing only at the end of the millenium. After eight amazing decades of writing and playing, Benny Carter passed away quietly on July 13, 2003 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 95.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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