Benny Carter, American trumpet player, saxophonist, and composer (born 1907)

Benny Carter

American jazz musician, composer, and bandleader (1907–2003)

Bennett Lester Carter 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 in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for…