Benny Carter Discography & Songs

Album

1959 Aspects

1 June in January
2 February Fiesta
3 March Wind
4 I'll Remember April
5 One Morning in May
6 June Is Busting Out All Over
7 Sleigh Ride in July
8 August Moon
9 September Song
10 Something for October
11 Swingin' in November
12 Roses in December

1962 BBB & Co.

1 Opening Blues
2 Lula
3 When Lights Are Low
4 You Can’t Tell the Difference When the Sun Goes Down Blues

1966 Additions to Further Definitions

1 Fantastic, That's You
2 Come on Back
3 We Were in Love
4 If Dreams Come True
5 Prohibido
6 Doozy
7 Rock Bottom
8 Titmouse

1978 Live And Well In Japan!

1 Squaty Roo
2 Tribute to Louis Armstrong
3 Them There Eyes
4 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

1983 Summer Serenade

1 Indiana
2 Almost Like Being in Love
3 Summer Serenade
4 All That Jazz
5 Blue Star
6 When Lights Are Low
7 Taking a Chance on Love

1986 Benny Carter All Stars

1 Easy Money
2 Memories of You
3 Here's That Rainy Day
4 Blues for Lucky Lovers
5 Work Song
6 When Lights Are Low

1987 Jazz Giant

1 Old Fashioned Love
2 I'm Coming to Virginia
3 A Walkin' Thing
4 Blue Lou
5 Ain't She Sweet
6 How Can You Lose
7 Blues My Naughty Sweety Gives to Me

1988 Central City Sketches

1 Doozy (Second version)
2 When Lights Are Low
3 A Kiss from You
4 Sleep
5 Central City Blues
6 Hello
7 People
8 Promenade
9 Remember
10 Sky Dance
11 Lonesome Nights
12 Doozy
13 Easy Money
14 Symphony in Riffs
15 Souvenir
16 Blues in My Heart

1988 Claude Tissendier / Saxomania Featuring Benny Carter

1 Doozy
2 Out of Nowhere
3 Lover Man
4 Stereophonic
5 Liza
6 What Am I Here For
7 Sweet and Pungent
8 Cottontail
9 Hittin Twelve
10 I Want a Little Girl
11 Sixteen Men Swinging
12 B.P. Blues

1988 Swingin' the '20s

1 Thou Swell
2 My Blue Heaven
3 Just Imagine
4 If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
5 Sweet Lorraine
6 Who's Sorry Now
7 Who's Sorry Now (alternate take)
8 Laugh! Clown! Laugh!
9 Laugh! Clown! Laugh! (alternate take)
10 All Alone
11 All Alone (alternate take)
12 Mary Lou
13 In a Little Spanish Town
14 Someone to Watch Over Me
15 A Monday Date

1989 In the Mood for Swing

1 I'm in the Mood for Swing
2 Another Time, Another Place
3 The Courtship
4 Rock Me to Sleep
5 Janel
6 The Romp
7 Summer Serenade
8 Not So Blue
9 You, Only You
10 Blue Moonlight
11 South Side Samba

1989 My Kind of Trouble

1 Berkeley Bounce
2 Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
3 Robbins' Nest
4 Eric's Blues
5 Only Trust Your Heart
6 My Kind of Trouble Is You

1992 Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Inc.

1 Sweet and Lovely
2 Broadway
3 The Courtship
4 Constantinople
5 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
6 A Night in Tunisia

1992 Benny; Ben & Barney

1 Opening Blues
2 Lula
3 When Lights Are Low
4 You Can't Tell the Difference

1994 Elegy in Blue

1 Did You Call Her Today
2 Ceora
3 Good Queen Bess
4 Prelude to a Kiss
5 Little Jazz
6 Blue Monk
7 Someday, You'll Be Sorry
8 Nuages
9 Undecided
10 Elegy in Blue

1994 Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Verve Sessions

1 Gone With the Wind
2 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
3 Long Ago and Far Away
4 I've Got the World on a String
5 Street Scene
6 Imagination
7 Pick Yourself Up
8 I Get a Kick Out of You
9 Laura
10 That Old Black Magic
11 Angel Eyes
12 The Song Is You
13 A Foggy Day
14 You Took Advantage of Me
15 Poinciana (Song of the Tree)
16 Prisoner of Love
17 Frenesi
18 Gone With the Wind (alternate take)
19 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (alternate take)
20 Long Ago and Far Away (alternate take)
21 I've Got the World on a String (alternate take)

1994 Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz

1 [conversation]
2 Easy Money
3 [conversation]
4 Faraway
5 [conversation]
6 Blues in My Heart
7 [conversation]
8 Lonely Woman
9 [conversation]
10 Only Trust Your Heart
11 [conversation]
12 Evening Star
13 [conversation]
14 A Kiss From You
15 [conversation]
16 Key Largo
17 [conversation]
18 Summer Serenade
19 [conversation]
20 When Lights Are Low
21 [conversation]

1995 Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson

1 Just Friends
2 Sweet Lorraine
3 Baubles, Bangles and Beads
4 It's a Wonderful World
5 If I Had You
6 Whispering
7 Some Kind of Blues

1996 Songbook

1 Only Trust Your Heart
2 All That Jazz
3 I Was Wrong
4 Rain
5 Cow-Cow Boogie
6 Fresh Out of Love
7 Speak Now
8 A Kiss From You
9 You Bring Out the Best in Me
10 My Kind of Trouble Is You
11 When Lights Are Low
12 Lonely Woman
13 Key Largo
14 We Were in Love
15 I See You

1996 My Man Benny, My Man Phil

1 Reet's Neet
2 Just a Mood (II)
3 Sultry Serenade
4 We Were in Love
5 My Man Benny
6 My Man Phil
7 Just a Mood (I)
8 Ma Blues
9 People Time
10 I'm Just Wild About Harry

1997 New York Nights

1997 Songbook, Volume II

1 My Mind Is Still on You
2 Echo of My Dream
3 Rock Me to Sleep
4 Stop Me (Before I Fall in Love Again)
5 He Doesn't Need Me Now
6 Doozy
7 Nevermore
8 Malibu
9 Blue Moonlight
10 Evening Start
11 Slow Carousel
12 Whisper to One
13 I'm the Caring Kind
14 When Hilma Smiles

2002 Americans Swinging in Paris

1 Crazy Rhythm
2 Out of Nowhere
3 Sweet Georgia Brown
4 Honeysuckle Rose
5 I'm Coming Virginia
6 Blue Light Blues
7 Farewell Blues
8 I've Got a Feeling, You're Fooling
9 Stay Out of Love
10 All of Me
11 Star Dust
12 Just a Mood

2002 Super Session

1 Funky Blues
2 What Is This Thing Called Love
3 Ballad Medley
4 Jam Blues

2002 More Cookin'

1 On Green Dolphin Street
2 Mean to Me
3 Lover Man
4 South Side Samba
5 I Thought About You
6 Out of Nowhere
7 Take the "A" Train

-- Back Bay Boogie

1 O.K. for Baby
2 Smack
3 I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
4 Boogie Woogie Sugar Blues
5 All of Me
6 Cuddle Up, Huddle Up
7 Midnight
8 Lullaby to a Dream
9 What a Diff'rence a Day Made
10 Sunday
11 Back Bay Boogie
12 Poinciana
13 Love for Sale
14 I Can't Escape From You
15 I Can't Get Started
16 I Surrender Dear
17 Malibu
18 Forever Blues
19 Jump Call
20 Looking for a Boy
21 Rose Room
22 The Moon Is Low
23 Stairway to the Stars
24 Bye Bye Blues
25 I Don't Know Why I Love You, Like I Do

-- Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter

-- Cookin' at Carlos I

1 You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
2 All the Things You Are
3 Key Largo
4 Just Friends
5 My Romance
6 's Romance
7 Time for the Blues

-- Montreux 77

1 Three Little Words
2 In a Mellow Tone
3 Wave
4 Undecided
5 Body and Soul
6 On Green Dolphin Street
7 Here's That Rainy Day

-- The Complete Benny Carter on Keynote

1 The Moon Is Low (take 1)
2 The Moon Is Low (take 2)
3 The Moon Is Low (take 3)
4 Stairway to the Stars
5 Bye Bye Blues (take 1)
6 Bye Bye Blues (take 2)
7 Bye Bye Blues (take 3)
8 I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do
9 Moonglow (take 1)
10 Moonglow (take 2)
11 Moonglow (take 3)
12 Give Me Something to Remember You By (take 1)
13 Give Me Something to Remember You By (take 2)
14 Oh, Lady Be Good (take 1)
15 Oh, Lady Be Good (take 2)
16 Oh, Lady Be Good (take 3)
17 Deep Purple (take 1)
18 Deep Purple (take 2)
19 Deep Purple (take 3)

-- Three Great Swing Saxophones

1 One Hour
2 Hello Lola
3 Wherever There's a Will, Baby
4 Sugar Foot Stomp
5 Hocus Pocus
6 Dinah -- take I
7 Dinah -- Take II
8 Body And Soul
9 Lafayette
10 The Voice Of Old Man River
11 Early Session Hop
12 Cotton Tail
13 All Too Soon
14 Linger Awhile
15 Cadillac Slim
16 I'd Love It
17 Apologies
18 I'm In The Mood For Swing
19 Shoe Shiner's Drag
20 Cocktails For Two
21 Takin' My Time
22 Ill Wind

-- Tickle Toe

1 Tickle Joe
2 I Wanna Be Around
3 Watermelon Man
4 The Girl From Ipanema
5 Green Dolphin Street
6 The Great Lie
7 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
8 Fairy Tales
9 Memories of You