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  • Carter, Benny

Carter, Benny (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Carter, Benny
Used for/see from:
  • Carter, Bennett Lester
  • Clump, Clarence
  • Gomez, Johnny, 1907-2003

Do not confuse with calypso musician: Gomez, Johnny

His A man called Adam. [Phonodisc] 1966.

Baker, 8th ed. (Carter, Benny (Bennett Lester); b. 8-8-07, N.Y.; jazz instrumentalist, bandleader, arranger, composer)

Yahoo news WWW site, 07-14-03 (Benny Carter; jazz musician, alto saxophonist, composer, instrumentalist, orchestra leader, arranger; b. Bennett Lester Carter, Aug. 8, 1907, New York; d. Saturday [July 12, 2003])

African American National Biography, accessed January 15, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Carter, Benny; Bennett Lester Carter; saxophonist, arranger, composer, jazz musician, trumpeter; born 08 August 1907 in New York, New York, United States; member of Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten (1927); member of Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (1928-1931); worked with Chick Webb's band (1931); musical director of McKinney's Cotton Pickers; staff arranger for Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra (1940s); led his own Benny Carter's big band (1943-1946). He wrote assignments for the Hollywood studios (mid-1960s); died 12 July 2003 in Los Angeles, California, United States)

Berger, M. Benny Carter, a life in American music, vol. 2, 2002, viewed on GoogleBooks May 17, 2018: p. 563 (Clarence Clump; pseudonym for Benny Carter)

Catalog of copyright entries, third series, 1970, viewed on GoogleBooks July 16, 2018: p. 2360 (Johnny Gomez; pseud. of Benny Carter; composer of Pushin' along)


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