Carter, Benny
Benny Carter's career was truly unique in terms of both accomplishment and longevity. He recorded and performed through eight decades, an achievement which may never be topped. He started off playing with Rex Stewart, Sidney Bechet, Earl Hines, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Fats Waller, and James P. Johnson. He arranged for recordings by Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, and Tommy Dorsey. He wrote for vocalists Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ray Charles, Peggy Lee, Lou Rawls, and Louis Armstrong. His big band included Miles Davis, J. J. Johnson, and Max Roach. He wrote standards such as Blues in My Heart and When Lights Are Low. Benny also worked in Hollywood for years and wrote for hit movies and TV shows.
By the latter part of his life, he had been awarded The National Endowment for the Arts' NEA Jazz Masters Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994, and the National Medal of Arts. Benny was always regarded as a top alto saxophonist, and was an excellent trumpeter as well. He managed to remain at the highest level of jazz for an astonishing 70 years, and his prominence as a player, writer, arranger, and bandleader led his peers to call him King.
Jazz Lines Publications has released many of Benny Carter's seminal works, such as When Lights Are Low, Blues In My Heart, the complete Central City Sketches, Blue Star, Come On Back, Prohibido, big band, little big band, and saxophone ensemble versions of Doozy, and many more. We also have a wonderful set of eleven of Benny's sax ensemble arrangements which is priced at nearly 25% off. In addition, we carry all of the great charts of Benny's which are published by our friends at Sierra Music, including the complete Kansas City Suite, also at almost 25% off of the retail price.
BENNY CARTER SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE JAZZ LINES PUBLICATIONS SERIES: ELEVEN ARRANGEMENT SET
Recorded by Benny Carter
Eleven Saxophone Ensemble Arrangements
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-1008
$485.00
BENNY CARTER SAXOPHONE ENSEMBLE JAZZ LINES PUBLICATIONS SERIES: ELEVEN ARRANGEMENT SET [DOWNLOAD]
Recorded by Benny Carter
Eight Saxophone Ensemble Arrangements
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-1008DL
$485.00
BENNY CARTER'S CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES: COMPLETE SET OF 6 MOVEMENTS
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement (6 Movements)
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8285
$275.00
BENNY CARTER'S CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES: COMPLETE SET OF 6 MOVEMENTS [DOWNLOAD]
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement (6 Movements)
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8285DL
$275.00
Recorded by Benny Carter
Jazz Saxophone Quartet Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8221DL
$50.00
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8293
$65.00
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8293DL
$65.00
![View: BOP BOUNCE [AKA HARLEQUIN BOUNCE]](https://www.ejazzlines.com/wp-images/product/thumbnail/bop_bounce_jlp-8496.jpg "BOP BOUNCE [AKA HARLEQUIN BOUNCE]")
BOP BOUNCE [AKA HARLEQUIN BOUNCE]
Recorded by Benny Carter
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8496
$65.00
BOP BOUNCE [AKA HARLEQUIN BOUNCE] [DOWNLOAD]
Recorded by Benny Carter
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8496DL
$65.00
![View: CENTRAL CITY BLUES/HELLO [CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES #1 & 2]](https://www.ejazzlines.com/wp-images/product/thumbnail/central_city_blues_hello_jlp-8286_87.jpg "CENTRAL CITY BLUES/HELLO [CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES #1 & 2]")
CENTRAL CITY BLUES/HELLO [CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES #1 & 2]
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8286/87
$65.00
CENTRAL CITY BLUES/HELLO [CENTRAL CITY SKETCHES #1 & 2] [DOWNLOAD]
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8286/87DL
$65.00
Recorded by Benny Carter
Jazz Small Group Arrangement (5 Horns with Rhythm Section)
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8227
$50.00
Recorded by Benny Carter
Jazz Small Group Arrangement (5 Horns with Rhythm Section)
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8227DL
$50.00
Jazz Octet Arrangement [4 Horns with Rhythm Section]
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8220
$50.00
Jazz Octet Arrangement [4 Horns with Rhythm Section]
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8220DL
$50.00
![View: DOOZY [BIG BAND VERSION]](https://www.ejazzlines.com/wp-images/product/thumbnail/doozy_jlp-8296.jpg "DOOZY [BIG BAND VERSION]")
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8296
$65.00
DOOZY [BIG BAND VERSION] [DOWNLOAD]
Recorded by the American Jazz Orchestra
Jazz Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8296DL
$65.00
Jazz Saxophone Quintet Arrangement (with Rhythm Section)
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-8225DL
$50.00
![View: DOOZY [LITTLE BIG BAND]](https://www.ejazzlines.com/wp-images/product/thumbnail/jlp7436.jpg "DOOZY [LITTLE BIG BAND]")
DOOZY [LITTLE BIG BAND] [DOWNLOAD]
Jazz Little Big Band Arrangement
Jazz Lines Publications
JLP-7436DL
$40.00
