Benny Carter News

 
Grammy Award Winner David Holt Coming To The Joy
Gaston Gazette
“Riverwalk,” in its twenty-second year, combines stories of the jazz greats told by Holt with the traditional jazz music of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests including Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter. “David Holt has been a friend of mine for many ...


 
"Let's Misbehave" with Lisa Lindsley
San Francisco Chronicle
Bill Bell has performed and recorded with Benny Carter, Carmen McRae, Nancy Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley and a host of others! He compses and arranges for big bands as well as smaller groups. Called "The Jazz Professor" he taught and ...


 
Well-known saxophonist to join students
The Daily News of Newburyport
He has performed with Benny Carter, Phil Woods, Brandford Marsalis and recorded with Wynton and Ellis Marsalis. He was a prizewinner in the Thelonious Monk Saxophone competition and in 1999 was awarded an ARIA — Australia's most prestigious music ...


 
Hines is fierce, 'The Savoy King,' Phoebe Jacobs tribute
Amsterdam News
Gordon blueprinted the original “Jazz a la Carte,” inaugurated by Frank Schiffman and Leo Brecher, who reopened the Apollo in 1934 with this “colored review” featuring MC Ralph Cooper (a Negro film star), the great Benny Carter Orchestra and 16 ...


 
Book Review: Harlem Jazz Adventures - A European Baron's Memoir 1934 -1969 by ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Anecdotal chapters tell of his encounters with the likes of Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, and virtually every player in each and every band that passed through town. Escapades include a raucous Christmas with Errol Garner, ...

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Pizzarelli's family hooked him on jazz
Midland Reporter-Telegram
... touring with such well-known bands as Benny Goodman (in the 1980s), Zoot Sims, Benny Carter, Barney Kessel and Charlie Byrd; serving on the faculty of William Paterson University; and recording solo albums as well as those with Howard Alden, ...


 
Jazz Shrines Fest, ALJO, Great Night in Harlem
Amsterdam News
One of its most popular, longest-running shows that began in the 1940s was “Jazz à la Carte,” a variety show produced by owners Frank Schiffman and Leo Brecher, featuring MC Ralph Cooper and the Benny Carter Orchestra, which opened the series.