Benny Carter – Classics 1946–1948 (1999)

1 Melodrama in a V-Disc Record Room (Jump Call) (Brenner) 3:30 
2 I Can't Get Started (Duke, Gershwin) 2:54
3 He's Funny That Way (Moret, Whiting) 2:43 
4 Moonglow (DeLange, Hudson, Mills) 2:51 
5 Give Me Something to Remember You By (Dietz, Schwartz) 2:48 
6 Oh, Lady Be Good (Gershwin, Gershwin) 2:38
7 Deep Purple (DeRose, Parish) 3:11 
8 Back Bay Boogie (Carter) 5:17 
9 Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington, Gordon, Mills) 3:05 
10 Rebop Boogie (Carter) 3:00 
11 Twelve O'Clock Jump (Carter) 2:54 
12 Your Conscience Tells You So (Carter, Raye) 2:37 
13 Mexican Hat Dance (Traditional) 2:53 
14 Sweet Georgia Brown (Bernie, Casey, Pinkard) 2:36 
15 Out of My Way (Catlett, Grimes) 3:01 
16 What'll It Be (Webster) 3:16 
17 Cadillac Slim (Webster) 3:03 
18 Baby You're Mine for Keeps (Atwood, Herscher) 2:40 
19 You'll Never Break My Heart Again (Atwood, Herscher) 2:53 
20 Chilpanicingo (Atwood, Herscher) 2:54
21 An Old Love Story (Atwood, Herscher) 2:59 
22 Reina (My Lovely Queen) (Atwood, Herscher) 2:58 
23 Let Us Drink a Toast Together (Atwood, Herscher) 2:42 
24 June Comes Around Every Year (Arlen, Mercer) 3:07 
25 Forever Blue (Carter) 3:08

Benny Carter - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Trumpet
Dallas Bartley - Bass
Emmett Berry - Trumpet
Percy Brice - Drums
Willard Brown - Sax (Alto), Sax (Baritone)
James Cannady - Guitar
Big Sid Catlett - Drums, Vocals
Harold Clark - Sax (Tenor)
Buck Clayton - Trumpet
Paul Cohen - Trumpet
Henry Coker - Trombone
Miles Davis - Trumpet
Robert Decker - Vocals
Charles Drayton - Bass
Lu Elliott - Vocals
The Enchanters - Vocals
Jewell L. Grant 	- Sax (Alto)
Louis Gray - Trumpet
Al Grey 	- Trombone
Charley Johnson - Trombone
Wallace Jones - Trumpet
Porter Kilbert - Sax (Alto)
Irving Lewis - Trumpet
Jack Marshall - Guitar
Herman Mitchell - Guitar
Alton Moore - Trombone
John Morris - Trombone
Thomas Moultrie - Bass
Hubert "Bumps" Myers - Sax (Tenor)
Ira Pettiford - Trumpet
Max Roach - Drums
Clarence "Candy" Ross - Trombone
John Simmons - Bass
Kay Starr - Vocals
Larry Stewart - Vocals
John Taylor - Sax (Baritone)
Louis Taylor - Trombone
Henry Tucker - Drums
George Washington - Trombone
Rufus Webster 	- Piano
Sonny White - Bass, Drums, Guitar, Piano
Walter Williams - Trumpet
Gerald Wilson - Trumpet

Benny Carter, like Coleman Hawkins, spent the '40s rubbing shoulders with bebop's young Turks, while mostly maintaining the style he forged during the early jazz and swing years. Possibly, like Hawkins again, Carter's '30s stay in Europe opened him up to the progressive nature of jazz and the necessity of always taking advantage of the music's complexities and malleability. And while Carter didn't ape Charlie Parker's alto flights or become a fixture at Minton's Playhouse, he did head up some fine big bands that featured the likes of Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, J.J. Johnson, Max Roach, and Howard McGhee, to name a few bebop figures. This Classics discs takes in some of Carter's adventurous big band sides from 1946-1948, including a California outfit with Davis and Gerald Wilson. On the more traditional end, Carter is also heard with swing contemporaries like Buck Clayton and Ben Webster. A fine document of the fertile transition from swing to bebop. ---Stephen Cook, Rovi

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