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Giants Of Jazz: Benny Carter

Vinyl LP (1980)
Label: Time-Life Records
Catalog No.: STL-J10
Monophonic / Stereo
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 3

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▶ Benny Carter (1907-2003) was a composer, arranger, big-band leader, and multi-instrumentalist, fluent on alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, and clarinet. His instrumental tone was gorgeous; his chops, wicked good; his solos, logical yet inventively surprising. He was a great among greats, without, perhaps, as much renown as others.

▶ This album is one in the 3-LP set, Giants of Jazz: Benny Carter (1980) — itself one in a Time-Life series of jazz compilations— that provides a snapshot of his career, comprising 40 recordings from 1929 through 1977.

A wonderful find in a local thrift shop...and in good condition.
10 January 2020.

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▶ "No jazz musician has ever exceeded, and few have approached, Benny Carter in all-around achievement. If a jazz decathlon were held that included competition in alto saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano, and trombone performances, as well as arranging, composing, conducting, and instructing, Carter might not win every event, but his point total almost certainly would eclipse that of any conceivable rival."
— Morroe Berger (LP pamphlet)

▶ The sound of the set is very good. A crucial reason is its recording engineer: Frank Abbey (1922-2008). In 1951, he began working at Capitol Records, recording pop, jazz, classical, rock, broadway, and spoken word for nearly two decades. In 1968, he moved to CBS Records (later Sony Music) where he specialized in remastering —and then digital remastering. Abbey retired in 1988 but continued to freelance from his own New Jersey studio. In 1991, he received a Grammy for technical excellence for re-mastering the original recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson.

▶ The notes to the accompanying 52-page pamphlet —at times overly fulsome— were written by Morroe Berger (1918-1963): a sociology professor at Princeton University who wrote about jazz. The notes on the music —detailed and less florid— were written by Morroe's son, Edward "Ed" Berger (1949-2017), a longtime curator at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

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Camera: Olympus E-M10MarkII, f/8.0, 6 sec, 20mm (=40mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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