Benny Carter

• 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL

• LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITIONS

• NEWLY REMASTERED

• INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

This release present the complete original LP New Jazz Sounds (Norgran MGN-1044/Verve MGV-8135), which marked the first small group collaboration between Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie. A reading of “Laura” that completes the first session but wasn’t included on the original LP has been added here, as well as two long live performances that featureCarter and Gillespie as members of Jazz at the Philharmonic in 1960. The two musicians would tour Europe together in 1966 but wouldn’t be recorded again in a small group format until 1976.

PERSONNEL:

• ON SIDE A & B1-B2:
• Benny Carter - alto sax
• Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet (on A1-A2 only)
• Bill Harris - trombone
• Oscar Peterson - piano
• Herb Ellis - guitar
• Ray Brown - bass
• Buddy Rich - drums
• New York, September 14, 1954.

• ON B3:
• Benny Carter - alto sax
• Don Abney - piano
• George Duvivier - bass
• Louie Bellson - drums
• New York, June 23, 1954.

• ON B4:
• Benny Carter - alto sax
• Oscar Peterson - piano
• Herb Ellis - guitar
• Ray Brown - bass
• Bobby White- drums
• New York, November 12, 1954

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• 01 JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
• 02 THE MARRIAGE BLUES
• 03 ANGEL EYES
• 04 LAURA (*)

• SIDE B:
• 01 THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC
• 02 THE SONG IS YOU
• 03 THIS CAN’T BE LOVE
• 04 FRENESI

• (*) Bonus track: from the same session, but not included on the original LP.