For The Benny Carter Lover. This book is your ultimate resource for Benny Carter. Here you will find the most up-to-date 219 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Benny Carter's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition - 1990s, Benny Carter - Return to Harlem and a move to Los Angeles, Cozy Cole, 37th Grammy Awards - Jazz, Doc Cheatham - Working with the name bands, Billy Eckstine - Biography, Kennedy Center Honors - 1990s, Carmen McRae - Biography, Phil Woods - As leader, Helen Merrill - Later career, Metronome Magazine - Metronome All-Stars Band, George Russell (composer) - Early life, Louis Metcalf, All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) - Track listing, The Lonely Hours, Taking a Chance On Love - Recorded versions, All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald album) - Personnel, Dicky Wells, Ruth Olay - Career, Heebie Jeebies (composition), Frank Wess - Biography, Mundell Lowe - As sideman, Billy Eckstine - Discography, Carter, Gillespie Inc., I Hear a Rhapsody, Wardell Gray - Arrival on the West Coast, A Classy Pair - Reception, Monterey Jazz Festival - Performers, Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia 1933-1944 - Select collective personnel, Cool jazz - Background, Fletcher Henderson - Biography, Honeysuckle Rose (song) - Notable Recordings, Art Pepper - Career, Stormy Weather (song) - Other versions, Far Away Places - Recorded versions, Sid Catlett - Biography, Larry Gales, Benny Carter - Compilation albums, List of Jo Stafford compilation albums (1955-1999) - Big Band Sound, and much more...

During the last 25 years of his life Louis Armstrong fronted his All Stars Dixieland jazz band, usually five additional musicians and a female singer. While much has been written about Louis there has been much less coverage of his All Stars. This book has four parts: 1. Louis's early years and the lead-up to the formation of the All Stars. 2. The All Stars through the years; A timeline of the band including changes in its composition, major recordings and concerts, overseas tours. 3. The Musicians; biographies of the 46 musicians who were members of the All Stars, the detail depending on the percieved significance of each. 4. Life with Louis; especially where it impacted on the All Stars: touring, on stage, relationships with management. There is a comprehensive list of references and a detailed index.

"Floyd Levin's half-century collection of reportage, reviews and recollections are an irreplaceable and totally enjoyable trove of writing about the vibrancy, past and still-present, of traditional American jazz."—Charles Champlin, author of Back There Where the Past Was "I've known Floyd and his wife Lucille for more than fifty years. Floyd's book is a colorful, intimate account of his lifelong love affair with jazz. I'm especially fascinated when he writes about his personal encounters with some of the jazz legends of the Century. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned about jazz - its present, its past, and his evolution."—Milt Hinton "Floyd Levin's dedicated and unselfish life-long work for the cause of jazz has illuminated many a corner that would otherwise have remained in the dark. All who care about the music are in his debt. Classic Jazz, like Floyd himself, is a classic."—Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University "What a rich, passionate and human book this is! Drawing on fifty years of devotion to classic, New Orleans jazz and the artists who performed it, Floyd Levin brilliantly weaves anecdotal material, primary research, intimate personal observations, and analyses to create an historical goldmine of the music's evolution in New Orleans and on the West Coast. In rendering portraits of legendary musicians in such a beautifully moving, honest way, he offers not just standard history, but a strong sense of the emotional core of the music as well."—Steve Isoardi, co-author of Central Avenue Sounds

"Both as a person and as a musician, he was number one in my book." --Benny Carter Bassist George Duvivier (1920-1985) was one of the most universally respected musicians in jazz. His impeccable musicianship graced the big bands in the 1940s and led to musical associations with virtually every important jazz and popular artist. His prolific recording career spanned all styles of music, from Eubie Blake to Eric Dolphy, Billie Holiday to Barry Manilow. Duvivier was a most astute and articulate observer of the musical scene. A large part of this book is devoted to his own reflections on growing up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, the evolution of the bass, life in the commercial studios, and his memories of close associates--Coleman Hawkins, Jimmie Lunceford, Bud Powell, Lena Horne, and many others. In addition, twenty of Duvivier's colleagues, including Louie Bellson, Ron Carter, Milt Hinton, Ed Shaughnessy, Arthur Taylor, and Joe Wilder, have contributed, covering a variety of musical and social issues, as well as providing a loving portrait of an extraordinary artist. Duvivier's musical style is discussed by David Chevan, who has included transcriptions of several solos. An extensive discography/solography traces Duvivier's incredibly diverse recording career. With dozens of previously unpublished photos.