Benny Carter Plays Pretty
1955 studio album by Benny Carter
Benny Carter Plays Pretty | ||||
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Studio album by Benny Carter | ||||
Released | 1955 | |||
Recorded | June 23 and September 14, 1954 | |||
Studio | Los Angeles and Fine Sound Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Norgran | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
Benny Carter chronology | ||||
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Benny Carter Plays Pretty (also released as Moonglow) is an album by jazz saxophonist Benny Carter that was recorded in 1954 and released by Norgran Records.[1][2]
Billboard in 1955 wrote: "This is mainly 'mood music' in the jazz idiom, and highly effective."[3]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[4]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Moonglow" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange) | 2:44 |
2. | "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) | 3:51 |
3. | "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) | 3:35 |
4. | "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) | 3:37 |
5. | "Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) | 3:21 |
6. | "Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) | 7:41 |
7. | "Ruby" (Heinz Roemheld, Mitchell Parish) | 4:32 |
8. | "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) | 3:56 |
Personnel
- Benny Carter – alto saxophone
- Don Abney (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8) – piano
- Oscar Peterson (track 6) – piano
- George Duvivier (track 1-5, 7 & 8) – double bass
- Ray Brown (track 6) – double bass
- Louis Bellson (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8) – drums
- Buddy Rich (track 6) – drums
- Herb Ellis (track 6) – guitar
- Bill Harris (track 6) – trombone
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
or co-leader
- Alone Together (1952)
- Cosmopolite (1952–54)
- Benny Carter Plays Pretty (1954)
- New Jazz Sounds (and Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris, 1954)
- Urbane Jazz (and Roy Eldridge, 1955)
- Jazz Giant (1957–58)
- Swingin' the '20s (and Earl Hines, 1958)
- Further Definitions/Additions to Further Definitions (1961/1966)
- Carter, Gillespie Inc. (and Dizzy Gillespie]], 1976)
- Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (1986)
- Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter (1986)
- "Cow-Cow Boogie" (1942)