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BENNY CARTER CDs
by Music Librarian Christopher Popa
Bb 3000-2-RB, Benny Carter: All Of Me, 1991 Shaw
Bb 7636-2-RB – see under “Various Artists”
Bb 9683-2-RB – see under “Various Artists”
Cap J 20090 2 2, 30 By Ella: . . . with Benny Carter’s backing, 1999 •
Cap J CDP 52677 2 7, Aspects: Benny Carter, 1996 •
Cap J CDP 93513 2 2, Benny Carter Quartet: sax ala carter!, 2004 •
Cap J CDP 95450 2 1 – see under “Various Artists”
Cap / EMI (E) 96729 2 5 – see under “Various Artists”
Classics (Fr) 522, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1929-1933, 1990 •
Classics (Fr) 530, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1933-1936, 1990 •
Classics (Fr) 541, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1936, 1990 •
Classics (Fr) 552, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1937 - 1939, 1990 •
Classics (Fr) 579, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1939 - 1940, 1991 •
Classics (Fr) 631, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1940 - 1941, 1992 •
Classics (Fr) 923, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1943 - 1946, 1997 •
Classics (Fr) 991 – see under “Various Artists”
Classics (Fr) 1020 – see under “Various Artists”
Classics (Fr) 1043, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1946 – 1948, 1999 •
Classics (Fr) 1274 – see under “Various Artists”
Classics (Fr) 1297, The Chronogical Benny Carter 1948-1952, 2003 •
Classics (Fr) 1400, The Chronological Benny Carter 1952-1954, 2005 •
Classics (Fr) 1438, The Chronological Benny Carter 1954, 2007 •
Collectables COL-CD-2809, The Music From M Squad / . . . Mike Hammer •
Collectables COL-CD-6324 – see under “Various Artists”
Collectables COL-CD-7473 – see under “Various Artists”
Col / Legacy CXK 85470 – see under “Various Artists”
Conc J 285, A Gentleman and His Music
Conc J CCD-4412, M McPartland plays the BC Songbook: with special guest BC •
Contemporary OJCCD-167-2 (C-7555), Benny Carter: Jazz Giant, 1987 •
Doctor J (Neth) DJ 010 – see under “Various Artists”
Drive Archive DE2-42449, BC And His Orchestra: advanced swing, 1996 •
EmArcy 832 011-2 – see under “Billy Eckstine”
Essential J Classics EJC55522 – see under “Earl Hines”
Evening Star ES-113, The Benny Carter Centennial Project, 2007 •
Forlane Intl UCD 19007 – see under “Various Artists”
Fresh Sound Records (Sp) FSR 2256, BC: Jazz Giant: Complete Sessions, 2010 •
GRP / Dec J GRD-2-629 – see under “Various Artists”
GRP / Impulse 229, Further Definitions: Benny Carter And His Orchestra
Hep (E) CD 15 – see under “Various Artists”
Hep (E) CD 48 – see under “Various Artists”
Hindsight HBCD504 – see under “Various Artists”
Jass Records J-CD-3 – see under “Various Artists”
J Alliance TJA-12015, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz With Guest Benny Carter •
J Heritage 514718H, Benny Carter: Legends, 1997 •
J Heritage 5166556, Benny Carter: Elegy in Blue, 2002 •
J Heritage 5172521, BC: All That jazz: Live At Princeton, 2003 •
J Heritage 523365X, Benny Carter: Harlem Renaissance, 1993 2-CDs •
J Hour JH-1005, BC And His Orchestra: Live Broadcasts 1939 / 1948, 1990 •
J Unlimited (G) 201 2078, BC And His Orchestra: “The Radio Years” 1939-46 •
J Up JU-327, Benny Carter Big Band : On The Air, 1990
Jubilee (Den) 1945-2 – see under “Various Artists”
Lone Hill J LHJ 10114 – see under “Various Artists”
Lone Hill J LHJ10363, BC plays cole porter’s Can-Can and Anything Goes •
Merc (Sp) 840 819-2, The Essential Keynote Coll: The Complete BC, 1987 •
Mosaic MD12-170 – see under “Various Artists”
Mosaic MD7-236 – see under “Various Artists”
Mosaic MD6-266 – see under "Various Artists"
Mosaic Select 30 – see under “Various Artists”
Musical Heritage Soc MHS 512211H, Central City Sketches, 1988 •
Musical Heritage Soc MHS 512376K, Over The R: The BC All-Star Sax Ensemble •
Musicmasters 5001, Benny Carter: In The Mood For Swing
Musicmasters 5015, Over the Rainbow: The Benny Carter All-Star Sax Ensemble
Musicmasters 5030, Benny Carter/Central City Sketches: The American Jazz Orch
Musicmasters 5033, Benny Carter: Cookin' At Carlos I
Musicmasters 5036, Benny Carter: My Man Benny / Phil Woods: My Man Phil •
Musicmasters 5059, Benny Carter: All That Jazz: Live At Princeton
Musicmasters J 60230, Cookin' at Carlos I
Musicmasters J 65080, Benny Carter: Harlem Renaissance
Musicmasters J 65087-2, Benny Carter: Legends, 1993 •
Musicmasters J 65115-2, Benny Carter: Elegy in Blue
Musicmasters J 65133-2, Best Of Benny Carter, 1995 •
Musicmasters J 65134-2, Benny Carter Songbook, 1996 •
Musicmasters J 65154-2, Benny Carter: New York Nights
Musicmasters J 65155-2, Benny Carter Songbook Vol II •
Neatwork RP 2019, Vol 1 1936-1940: Alternative Takes in Chronological Order •
Neatwork RP 2030, Vol 2 1940-1946: Alternative Takes in Chronological Order •
Neatwork RP 2063, 1936-1937: More Alternative Takes in Chronological Order •
Pablo OJCCD-339-2, Swingin’ the ‘20s . . . The Benny Carter Quartet
Pablo OJCCD-374-2, Benny Carter 4: Montreux ‘77
Pablo OJCCD-682-2, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Inc.
Pablo OJCCD-687-2 – see under “Count Basie”
Pablo OJCCD-736-2, Benny Carter – Live and Well in Japan!
Pablo OJCCD-883-2, Benny Carter: The King
Pablo OJCCD-967-2, The Benny Carter Group: Wonderland
Pablo PACD-2310-938-2 – see under “Various Artists”
Phontastic (Sw) 9305, Skyline Drive and Towards
Ranwood 8246-2 – see under “Lawrence Welk”
RCA J Tribune 66539-2, J Tribune No.4: Benny Carter (1928-1952), 1992 2-CDs •
RCA (Sp) 43396 2 - see under "Various Artists"
Retrograde FSM 80126-2, A Man Called Adam, 2007 Armstrong •
Rhino R2 75481 – see under “Various Artists”
Rhino R2 79805 – see under “Various Artists”
Roulette RCD 59038 – see under “Count Basie”
Roulette J CDP 28640 2 8, “The Benny Carter Sessions”: Sarah Vaughan •
RST Records (Austria) JUBCD 1002-2 – see under “Various Artists”
RST Records (Austria) JUBCD 1012-2 – see under “Various Artists”
Smithsonian RD 030 – see under “Various Artists”
Smithsonian RD 108 – see under “Various Artists”
Sony Music Distribution A3K 57836 – see under “Various Artists”
Storyville Records (Sw) 101 8517, In Copenhagen: Benny Carter, 2007 •
Storyville Records (Sw) 103 8411 – see under “Various Artists”
Storyville (Sw) STCD 4047, Benny Carter Quartet / Summer Serenade, 1986 •
Verve 314 521 673, BC: cosmopolite: the oscar peterson verve sessions
Verve 314 531 637-2, new jazz sounds: bc: the urbane sessions 2-CDs •
Verve 830 965-2 - see Merc (Sp) 840 219-2
Verve 849 395, bc: 3, 4, 5: The Verve Small Group Sessions, 1991 •
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