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Benny Carter

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Artist information

Born in:New York city,
United States of America
Year of Birth:1907
Year of death:2003

Biography

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Gifted saxophonist, excellent trumpeter, lauded composer and arranger, clarinetist and singer Benny Carter (1907-2003) was an all-rounder. The celebrity of the swing era worked as bandleader and arranger in New York before moving to London in 1936 to arrange for the BBC Dance Orchestra. A few years later he returned to the US to own big band lead and subsequently settling in Hollywood as a composermore

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  • Bennett Lester Carter
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