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| 3, 4, 5: The Verve Small Group Sessions | 
 enlarge | Artist: Benny Carter
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
Buy New: $9.89
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 114273
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 042284939522
EAN: 0042284939522
ASIN: B0000047CL
Release Date: June 25, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Little Girl Blue - Benny Carter, Hart, Lorenz | | • | June in January - Benny Carter, Rainger, Ralph | | • | Jeepers Creepers - Benny Carter, Mercer, Johnny | | • | Rosetta - Benny Carter, Hines, Earl | | • | Birth of the Blues - Benny Carter, Brown, Lew | | • | When Your Lover Has Gone - Benny Carter, Swan, Einar A. | | • | The Moon Is Low - Benny Carter, Brown, Nacio Herb | | • | This Love of Mine - Benny Carter, Parker, Sol | | • | Moonglow - Benny Carter, DeLange, Eddie | | • | My One and Only Love - Benny Carter, Mellin, Robert | | • | Love Is Here to Stay - Benny Carter, Gershwin, George | | • | This Can't Be Love - Benny Carter, Hart, Lorenz | | • | Tenderly - Benny Carter, Gross, Walter | | • | Unforgettable - Benny Carter, Gordon, Irving | | • | Ruby - Benny Carter, Parish, Mitchell | | • | Moon Song - Benny Carter, Coslow, Sam | | • | Don't You Think - Benny Carter, Smith, Stuff | | • | Will You Still Be Mine? - Benny Carter, Adair, Tom | | • | We'll Be Together Again - Benny Carter, Fischer, Carl |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
More Small Group Swing from the Verve Vaults July 10, 2000
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Once again, Norman Granz 50's Verve label serves up a gathering of swing-era champions lead by the multi-faceted Benny Carter. This tasteful and swinging selection of standards features Carter on sax in a trio, quartet and quintet format. The tunes selected provide ample room for great solos backed by swinging rhythm sections in all formats. Carter was known for a lot of things - composing, arranging etc. - but these studio sessions remind us why he's one of the Jazz Giants to quote the title of one of his other releases. You'll play this one over and over without tiring of it.
Rest In peace Benny Carter July 15, 2003
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
We lost a giant this week and this CD is all the proof you need. A fine collection of Benny Carter playing in trio, quartet and quintet settings accompanied by some of the finest swing and jazz artists. Carter's playing is always melodic and swinging while understated and subtle. On the trio tracks that kick this off Teddy Wilson's piano playing compliments Carter's alto perfectly and this section is my favorite. The entire set is priceless and really is a great repesentation of BC's talent and range. The tune selection is also wonderful. Highly recommended.
Excellent music, great value August 2, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Lord knows, Verve perpetrated a lot of string-laden pseudo-jazz over the years, but you have to hand it to Granz----he also released stuff like THIS. Here's two albums worth of relaxed, finely-wrought material on one superb CD; real value for your money. These well-produced small-group sessions prove (as if it needed proving!) what a great instrumentalist Benny Carter was and is. (He's also a great arranger and composer as well, but that's beside the point.) This is an album that sinks deep into your brain and bones, and you're better for it. Carter goes back well into the swing era, yet the feel here is quite boppish. As of this writing, he's still around, still swinging. Long may he continue to.
***************STARS!! August 18, 2003
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This wonderful disc could be the best of anyone's collection: it is excellent jazz, and yet is such fine art that it almost crosses over into art music--"classical."
The trio cuts of 1938 (nos. 1-8) were long hidden until the canny Japanese issued them with immaculate sound--thus showing their cognizance and appreciation of Western aesthetic matters. Just set "June in January" to repeat, and listen to it a few dozen times: Carter's exquisite alto timbre and melodic manipulations ease the electrochemical activity in the brain; Teddy Wilson's meditative piano solos calm the nerves while stimulating the soul; Jo Jones' heartbeat rhythms with brush on smooth snare and bass drums ease all tensions: this is over 4mins of delicious nepenthe.
The remainder of the tracks offer similar delights: some up-beat, some down-, this is Benny Carter at this best. One might call him, "the Coleman Hawkins of the alto." Parker and Stitt are great on alto: they bop hard; but Carter is so gentle and soulful that these lines rival the ambience of classical trio, quartet, and quintet ensembles.
The price $$ is a giveaway-bargain. Please do yourself a favor and get this disc for yourself; or, bless a friend and give it as a gift: they'll love it and think fondly of you!
Benny Carter was one of the best that ever played.. August 30, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
From the "Chocolate Dandies" sessions in the wee 30s through the Pablo years, this giant of the alto sax towered over many other better known names. His 1946 work in the traditional swing vein ranks among the best swing material ever recorded - "Cadillac Slim", "Out Of My Way"...and even the 1933 tune with his vocal, "Swing It". This CD compilation is a treat, with sweet and graceful stuff with Teddy Wilson and Jo Jones through the stuff with Oscar Peterson. His trumpet playing was also underrated simply because he didn't go to it often. His arrangements are legendary, and his Hollywood scoring work ("M Squad" among others) often brilliant. This CD is a GEM from a true jazz master.
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