Benny Carter - Advanced Swing

Title: Advanced Swing Artist: Benny Carter Release Date: 3/19/1996 Label: Drive Archive Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 780674244923 Genre: Jazz Styles: Swing, Jump Blues, East Coast Blues, Regional Blues, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Light, Literate, Rousing, Sophisticated, Energetic, Lush, Refined/Mannered, Bright, Confident, Elegant, Exuberant, Intimate, Joyous, Lively, Playful, Rollicking, Romantic, Smooth, Stylish, Freewheeling, Passionate Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Sleep
2. I Used to Love You
3. Ill Wind
4. Fish Fry
5. Swanee River
6. All of Me
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. Midnight
9. Prelude to a Kiss
10. I Heard You Cried Last Night
11. On the Alamo

Year Type Label Catalog # 1996 CD Drive Archive 42449

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Benny Carter led a big band for a few years during the 1940s, though he never was a commercial success because he was true to himself rather than choosing material of no interest to him. This collection of West Coast radio broadcasts from 1943 marks a transition point as a bit of bop works its way into some of the solos. Liner note writer Scott Yanow makes an educated guess as to the personnel, which includes trumpeters Snooky Young and Gerald Wilson, a young J.J. Johnson on trombone, and tenor saxophonists Bumps Myers and Gene Porter, among others. Carter, of course, is the arranger and main soloist, playing alto sax and a bit of trumpet on two tracks. These performances stand up against any of the era's big bands, and with the lack of novelty numbers, they don't sound the least bit dated. There is some surface noise that couldn't be removed from the remastering of the source material (likely transcription discs) without sacrificing the higher frequencies, but that is not going to keep any Benny Carter fan from seeking this disc, which lapsed from print with the demise of Drive Archive a few years after its 1996 re-release. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alton Moore Trombone Benny Carter Trumpet, Sax (Alto) Bumps Myers Sax (Tenor) Claude Dunson Sax (Alto), Trumpet Curly Russell Bass Freddy Webster Sax (Alto), Trumpet Gene Porter Sax (Tenor) Gerald Wilson Sax (Alto), Trumpet J.J. Johnson Trombone Ken Davis Design Oscar Lee Bradley Drums Porter Kilbert Sax (Alto) Savannah Churchill Vocals Scott Yanow Liner Notes Snooky Young Sax (Alto), Trumpet Sonny White Piano Teddy Brannon Piano Willard Brown Sax (Baritone)