Benny Carter: A Life in American Music, Volume I and Volume II
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Two volumes. 1440 total pp. Foreword by Benny Carter. Introduction by Dan Morgenstern.Ê Ê With black and white photographs and textual musical examples. 1982 Studies in Jazz No. 1. Comprehensive work that presents the career of alto saxophonist, trumpeter, arranger, composer, and bandleader Benny Carter [1907-2003], one of the most important and versatile figures in jazz, and treats the social and musicological aspects of jazz and popular music with an interdisciplinary approach unique in jazz literature. Carter was an important and influential jazz performer who played with nearly every major jazz artist of the 20th Century. accounts of tours, major concerts, recordings, and other special events. The revised and updated annotated discography is one of the most comprehensive ever devoted to the work of a single musician. Fine in blue cloth embossed with gold lettering. Item #613235
Price: $150.00