Title: With the Chocolate Dandies & Mezz Mezzrow
Artist: Benny Carter
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065670221
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2016-02-26
Number of Discs: 1

Benny Carter took up trumpet aged 13 and made rapid progress, quickly perfecting his sight reading and learning to arrange and compose. By his late teens he had mastered the alto saxophone, the trumpet, soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet, trombone and piano. Carter first led a band at the age of 21 - he took over Horace Henderson's Wilberforce Collegians and led the band for over a year, culminating in a residency at the prestigious Arcadia Ballroom. After that, the band broke up. Stints with Fletcher Henderson and Chick Webb followed. In April 1932, after a stint as musical director of McKinney's Cotton Pickers, he formed a new band which proved to be an artistic triumph. The band recorded it's first full session in March 1933. By then it was said in musical circles that if you made it with Carter, you held the passkey to any other top band. This collection presents six complete recording sessions, featuring Carter as both leader and sideman. All Carter's musical gifts - as leader, arranger, composer and multi-instrumentalist - are on display. By general agreement, a creative peak was reached in the sides of October 1933. Teddy Wilson is on piano and Carter's trumpet solo in Once Upon A Time is a masterpiece by any standards.

Tracks:
1.1 Swing It - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.2 Synthetic Love - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.3 Six Bells Stampede - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.4 Love, You?Re Not the One for Me - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.5 Blue Interlude - the Chocolate Dandies
1.6 I Never Knew - the Chocolate Dandies
1.7 Once Upon a Time - the Chocolate Dandies
1.8 Krazy Kapers - the Chocolate Dandies
1.9 Devil?S Holiday - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.10 Lonesome Night - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.11 Symphony in Riffs - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.12 Blue Lou - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.13 Free Love - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.14 Dissonance - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.15 Swingin? with Mezz - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.16 Love, You?Re Not the One for Me - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.17 Old Fashioned Love - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.18 Apologie - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.19 Sendin? the Vipers - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.20 35th and Calumet - Mezz Mezzrow and His Orchestra
1.21 Shoot the Works - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.22 Dream Lullaby - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.23 Everybody Shuffle - Benny Carter and His Orchestra
1.24 Synthetic Love - Benny Carter and His Orchestra

Benny Carter: With the Chocolate Dandies & Mezz Mezzrow - COMPACT DISCS

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