Blues - Benny Carter Live At Princeton Vol. 5

Long before he became an international icon, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie spent an influential period in Benny Carter’s band - this inspired 1979 reunion in Princeton is by definition an immediate jazz classic. Stanley Jordan, then a Princeton student, sat in with the band at the end of the concert, making it all the more an historic evet. Few musicians have changed the basic sound of jazz - Carter is one, and he chose for this exceptional evening one of his peers in that regard, Dizzy Gillespie. Like his mentor Carter, Gillespie fused a new level of technical brilliance with that undefinable quality that somehow speaks to all audiences, regardless of their musical sophistication- no small feat, that. Although they were born only 10 years apart, Gillespie told the audience on this evening that “When I grow up, I want to be just like Benny Carter!” This recording is also notable in that it captures the only time we can hear Gillespie accompanied by a master of be-bop piano, Barry Harris. Benny