Benny Carter and Helen Humes. Appearing on TV-show 'The World of John Hammond', Chicago, 1975

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Benny Carter and Helen Humes appearing on TV-show "The World of John Hammond", Chicago, 1975.

Benny Carter (by name 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 Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s.
He was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. In 1994 he won a Grammy Award for his solo on "Prelude to a Kiss" and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

b. August 8, 1907 in Harlem New York.
d. July 12, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.

Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer. Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie´s band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classic popular song. Humes was introduced to music in the church, singing in the choir and getting piano and organ lessons given at Sunday school by Bessie Allen, who taught music to any child who wanted to learn. Humes began occasionally playing the piano in a small and locally traveling dance band, the Dandies. This constant involvement in music would lead to her singing career in the mid-1920s.

b. June 23, 1913 in Louisville, Kentucky.
d. September 9, 1981 in Santa Monica California.

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