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...
DescriptionBenny Carter and the Cab Calloway Orchestra perform part two of "Body and Soul," with an alto saxophone solo by Carter. This tune was recorded on the soundstage of "Stormy Weather" but was not...
DescriptionBenny Carter and the Cab Calloway Orchestra perform part one of "Body and Soul," with an alto saxophone solo by Carter. This tune was recorded on the soundstage of "Stormy Weather" but was not...
DescriptionThis project focuses on how the ideological and stylistic strategies that Frederick Douglass used in his first autobiography influenced Charlotte Brontë’s immensely popular novel Jane Eyre (1847)....
DescriptionIn this episode of Jazz From the Archives, host Ed Berger interviews Walter Perkins, an American jazz drummer. This recording represents the second hour of their two-hour conversation.
