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Summer Serenade
Storyville Records

Summer Serenade

$39.99

Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
BENNY CARTER QUARTET
Format
Vinyl
Label
Storyville Records
Released
May 15, 2020
Catalog #
SVL6017012
UPC
717101701292

About

Summer Serenade, recorded in 1980, sees Benny Carter in the latter part of a pioneering and exceptionally long career return to Copenhagen for a session that documents his accumulated relationship with the alto saxophone and why he is remembered as one of the instrument's defining players. On a Sunday in August of 1980, Carter found a comfortable dynamic in a quartet finely tuned to his still obvious talents on the alto sax and who also managed to make their own mark on a series of Carter's own songs as well as those of a few others. Although he played trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tenor and piano at different points in his career, it is as an alto saxophonist that Benny Carter achieved his enviable reputation as an instrumentalist. The broad, sweeping phrases of his improvisations have the structural stability of compositions in their own right, and here, his approach to the instrument benefits from having been honed throughout the prior decades. Benny Carter had previously toured in Scandinavia in the 1930s when he had made a name for himself in the United States writing for and playing with the bands of Charlie Johnson, Horace and Fletcher, Don Redman and others. On this first encounter with European audiences, Carter was welcomed with open arms, and perhaps this initial meeting played into him going back to Copenhagen to record Summer Serenade almost 44 years later.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) 05:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana)
    Duration
    05:08
    Composer
    James F. Hanley
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  2. 2 Brigadoon: Almost Like Being in Love 07:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    Brigadoon: Almost Like Being in Love
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Frederick Loewe
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  3. 3 Summer Serenade 04:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    Summer Serenade
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Benny Carter
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  4. 4 All That Jazz 05:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    All That Jazz
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Al Stillman, Benny Carter
    Performer
    Richard Boone
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  5. 5 Blue Star 08:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    Blue Star
    Duration
    08:06
    Composer
    Benny Carter
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  6. 6 When Lights Are Low 06:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    When Lights Are Low
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    Benny Carter
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet
  7. 7 Taking a Chance on Love 08:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    Taking a Chance on Love
    Duration
    08:20
    Composer
    Vernon Duke
    Ensemble
    Benny Carter Quartet