When lights are Low - Benny Carter in Copenhagen.1985
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Benny Carter in Copenhagen
From a club concert in Copenhagen in 1985 we see a jam with Benny Carter alto sax, Red Norvo on vibes and Ed Thigpan 0n drums. On piano is Horace Parlan and the bassist is Jesper Lundgaard
Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 -- July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognised as such by other jazz musicians who called him King.
Red Norvo (31 March 1908- 6 April 1999) was one of jazz's early vibraphonists. He helped establish the xylophone and later the vibraphone as viable jazz instruments.
Norvo's career began in Chicago with a band called "The Collegians", in 1925. He played with many other bands, including an all-marimba band on the vaudeville circuit, and the bands of Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, and Woody Herman. Norvo recorded with Mildred Bailey (his wife), Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, among others. Together, Red and Mildred were known as "Mr. and Mrs. Swing." He also appeared in the film Screaming Mimi (1958), playing himself.
Born in Pittsburgh, Horace Parlan studied piano from the age of 12 and after suffering from polio developed a strong left-hand technique.
For all around, across the board achievement, nobody, nobody beat Benny Carter--instrumentalist, composer, arranger, he did it all
Benny Carter plays Benny Carter
Wonderful. Thank you!!!😊
greatest saxophonist in the world bennnyyyyy love u
lovely ....Benny played unbelievably for seventy odd years, amazing! .... yep .... he was of the kings ...... nice band here too .... thanks for all the good info, too, erwigfilms
Great playing by Everyone...I enjoy The Bass solo by Jester Lundgaard.♫ ♪♫
There are two ways to play "When Lights Are Low": the first one is the one heared on this video. The other uses a completely different bridge (B section), based on the same melody of the A section but in another key. This was created by Miles Davis in the fifties and was used by several Jazz greats such as Eric Dolphy and Oscar Peterson.Jaki Byard, in his "Parisian Solos" LP, used the original bridge as created by Benny Carter. All versions are worth hearing!
But this is the way the composer intended. Miles seems to have loved to make complex tunes simpler as per Monk’s ‘Well, You Needn’t.’
Red Norvo also appeared in the original Rat Pack "Oceans Eleven" in a casino band with Al Cohn, backing Dean Martin singing "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"
Great! Thanks for posting.
exxellent sax
Wonderful B. C. [The REAL bridge] Real book is incorrect!
Thank you for this post. Do you by any chance have more songs from this concert? I remember watching it once on TV and in one of the other tunes there is a very nice solo by Red Norvo.
Benny Carter ts, Red Norvo v, Horace Parlan p, Ed Thigpen d, Jesper Lundgaard b