Benny Carter

Benny Carter

Nacimiento : 1907-08-08, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2003-07-12

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Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award. Carter was born in New York City in 1907. He was given piano lessons by his mother and others in the neighborhood. He played trumpet and experimented briefly with C-melody saxophone before settling on alto saxophone. In the 1920s, he performed with June Clark, Billy Paige, and Earl Hines, then toured as a member of the Wilberforce Collegians led by Horace Henderson. He appeared on record for the first time in 1927 as a member of the Paradise Ten led by Charlie Johnson. He returned to the Collegians and became their bandleader through 1929, including a performance at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City. In his early 1920s, Carter worked as arranger for Fletcher Henderson after that position was vacated by Don Redman. He had no formal education in arranging, learning by trial and error, getting on his knees and looking at the existing charts, "writing the lead trumpet first and the lead saxophone first—which, of course, is the hard way. It was quite some time that I did that before I knew what a score was." He left Henderson to take Redman's former job as leader of McKinney's Cotton Pickers in Detroit. In 1932, he formed a band in New York City that included Chu Berry, Sid Catlett, Cozy Cole, Bill Coleman, Ben Webster, Dicky Wells, and Teddy Wilson. Carter's arrangements were complex. Among the most significant were "Keep a Song in Your Soul", written for Henderson in 1930, and "Lonesome Nights" and "Symphony in Riffs" from 1933, both of which show Carter's writing for saxophones. By the early 1930s, Carter and Johnny Hodges were considered the leading alto saxophonists. Carter also became a leading trumpet soloist, having rediscovered the instrument. He recorded extensively on trumpet in the 1930s. Carter's short-lived Orchestra played the Harlem Club in New York but only recorded a handful of records for Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion. The OKeh sides were issued under the name The Chocolate Dandies. In 1933, Carter participated in sessions with British composer/musician Spike Hughes, who visited New York City to organize recordings with prominent African American musicians. These 14 sides plus four by Carter's big band, titled at the time Spike Hughes and His Negro Orchestra, were initially only issued in England. The musicians were from Carter's band and included Red Allen, Dicky Wells, Wayman Carver, Coleman Hawkins, J. C. Higginbotham, and Chu Berry. ... Source: Article "Benny Carter" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Benny Carter

Películas

Howard
Trumpeter (archive footage)
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.
Jazz Seen
Self
"Jazz Seen" is an exploration of the life of William Claxton, whose photographs turned the world of jazz on its keen and perceptive ear. Various jazz artists, photographers, and actors recount memories they had with Claxton and explore his work, while parts of his life are re-enacted by actors.
The Cosmic Eye
Music
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
People, People, People
Music
Traces life in USA from the first Native Americans to the Bicentennial.
Buck y el farsante
Original Music Composer
Después de la Guerra de Secesión (1861-1865), Buck (Poitier), un sargento de caballería del ejército de la Unión, recorre la frontera de Colorado buscando esclavos para liberarlos, acompañado por una mujer y un maestro de la estafa: "El Predicador". Durante el viaje son atacados por un grupo de cazadores de recompensas que quieren devolver los esclavos a sus antiguos amos.
Urbanissimo
Music
A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.
Urbanissimo
Original Music Composer
A comic allegory in which a runaway "city" on legs matches wits with a wily farmer. A farmer has an encounter with a runaway "city" (which devours its environs). He deserts his rural home for the imagined joys of urban life.
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Original Music Composer
A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
A Man Called Adam
Original Music Composer
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
The Hanged Man
Original Music Composer
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
Harlem Wednesday
Music
The paintings of Gregorio Prestopino convey the sights and sounds of a day in Harlem. Music by Benny Carter.
A Smattering of Spots
Music
A compilation reel of television commercials produced by Story Board Inc.
The Adventures of *
Music
Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.
Night Without Sleep
Benny (Uncredited)
Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.
Un americano en París
Saxophonist in Cafe (uncredited)
Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly), un pintor americano, se queda en París y expone sus cuadros, que nadie compra, en Montparnasse. Un día tiene la suerte de conocer a una americana millonaria que decide promocionarlo. Al mismo tiempo, conoce a una dependienta y se enamora de ella.
Stormy Weather
Trumpeter (uncredited)
Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to come back to her when he "gets to be somebody." Years go by, and Bill and Selina's rising careers intersect only briefly, since Selina is unwilling to settle down. Will she ever change her mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.
El desfile de las estrellas
Ben Carter
El joven Eddy (Gene Kelly) intenta montar un espectáculo musical y en el proceso se enamora de la bella Kathryn (Kathryn Grayson), la hija de un coronel.