Benny Carter was born in New York City on August 8, 1907. He died in 2003 less than a month before his 96th birthday. Observances of Carter's centennial include a Hollywood Bowl concert on his birthday and the release of two new CDs. Welcome and deserved as they may be, those events are slight … [Read more...]
Archives for August 6, 2007
The Expanding Blog Universe
Jazz blogs are proliferating. Two recent entries worth investigating are Marc Myers's JazzWax, whose current posting is an evaluation of Benny Carter, and Chicago bassist Bill Harrison's Jazz Underneath. … [Read more...]