DescriptionThe Benny Carter Orchestra performs "I'm Gonna Make Believe I've Got Myself a Sweetheart" with vocalist Candy Ross at the Trianon Ballroom in California. Benny Carter arranged and composed the tune...
DescriptionThe Benny Carter Orchestra performs " Polishin' Brass," arranged and composed by J.J. Johnson, at the Trianon Ballroom in California. The announcer introduces the tune as Comin' on at the Trianon. ...
DescriptionBenny Carter (arranger, alto saxophone, trumpet) and his Orchestra perform "Night and Day" with vocalist Lucy Elliot at the Trianon Ballroom in California. Both sides of the lacquer disc derive from a...
DescriptionBenny Carter (arranger) and his Orchestra perform "Where or When" at the Trianon Ballroom in California. Both sides of the lacquer disc derive from a radio broadcast aircheck (CBS).
DescriptionBenny Carter (alto saxophone) and the Nat King Cole Trio perform "Cocktails for Two" in Los Angeles, possibly at the Bocage Hotel. Carter and Cole give an introduction at the beginning of the...
DescriptionLena Horne (vocalist), Benny Carter (alto saxophone), and the Cab Calloway Orchestra perform "Stormy Weather Ballet," for the 20th Century Fox film Stormy Weather. Benny Carter arranged the final...
DescriptionVivian Blaine sings "The Moon Kissed the Mississippi," arranged by Benny Carter, for the 1943 film "Jitterbugs," produced by 20th Century Fox (TCF 220).
DescriptionThe Cab Calloway Orchestra and Lena Horne (vocalist) perform "Stormy Weather," for the 20th Century Fox film "Stormy Weather." Benny Carter arranged the tune. TCF 196
DescriptionVivian Blaine sings "If the Shoe Fits, Wear It," arranged by Benny Carter, for the 1943 film "Jitterbugs," produced by 20th Century Fox (TCF 219).
DescriptionThis dissertation is a history of the incarceration and labor of African Americans in the early nineteenth-century urban North. This study foregrounds African Americans as subjects within the...
