''New Jazz Sounds'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist
Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career ...
featuring trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie and trombonist
Bill Harris recorded in 1954 and originally released on the
Norgran label.
Norgran Records Catalog: 1000 series
accessed December 9, 2015
Reception
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databa ...
awarded the album 2 stars.[Allmusic listing](_blank)
accessed December 9, 2015
Track listing
# " Just One of Those Things" ( Cole Porter) - 6:08
# "Marriage Blues" (Benny Carter) - 7:41
# " Angel Eyes" ( Matt Dennis, Earl Brent) - 3:27
# "That Old Black Magic
"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song written by Harold Arlen (music), with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They wrote it for the 1942 film '' Star Spangled Rhythm'', when it was sung by Johnny Johnston and danced by Vera Zorina. The song ...
" ( Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 6:47
# " The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in ove ...
, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 4:49
# " This Can't Be Love" ( Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:27
# "Frenesí
"Frenesí" is a musical piece originally composed by Alberto Domínguez Borrás for the marimba, and adapted as a jazz standard by Leonard Whitcup and others.
Background
The word ''frenesí'' is Spanish for "frenzy".
Artie Shaw recording
A ...
" ( Alberto Domínguez, Leonard Whitcup) - 4:42
Personnel
* Benny Carter
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career ...
– alto saxophone
* Dizzy Gillespie (tracks 1 & 2) – trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...
* Bill Harris (tracks 1-5) – trombone
The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...
* Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards ...
(tracks 1-5 & 7) – piano
* Don Abney (track 6) – piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
* Herb Ellis (tracks 1-5 & 7) – guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
* Ray Brown (tracks 1-5 & 7) – double bass
* George Duvivier (track 6) – double bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...
* Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, ...
(tracks 1-5) – drums
* Louis Bellson
Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, ...
(track 6) – drums
* Bobby White (track 7) – drums
References
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1955 albums
Benny Carter albums
Norgran Records albums
Verve Records albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz