Benny Carter
Day 33
#55 – Bennett ‘Benny’ Lester Carter (1907–2003). American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader. Albums include: Spike Hughes & Benny Carter (1933), Further Definitions (1961) and Another Time, Another Place (1996).
Other jazz musicians called him ‘King’. Such a strong word that I wanted to try and use it – but after lots of sketches I could not work out how. What else was distinctive? Then I remembered how long he had been recording. It has been said that he is the only musician to have recorded in eight different decades. Putting eight lines across the page to represent eight decades, I stretched the word King across to suggest how his career had done the same. Twisting the type round and interweaving it with the lines and the decades looked more interesting and intriguing.
2 hours
Listen...
to excerpts from ‘Further Definitions’.