Benny Morton, Joe Venuti, Benny Carter, And George Benson. Appearing on Tv-show 'The World of John Hammond', Chicago, 1975

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Benny Morton, Joe Venuti, Benny Carter, and George Benson. Appearing on Tv-show "The World of John Hammond", Chicago, 1975.

Benny Morton was an American jazz trombonist, most associated with swing genre. One of his first jobs was working with Clarence Holiday, and he appeared with Clarence's daughter Billie Holiday towards the end of her life on The Sound of Jazz. Morton was a member of pianist Teddy Wilson's Sextet throughout the early 1940s.

b. January 31, 1907 in New York.
d. December 28, 1985 in New York.

Joe Venuti (by name Giuseppe “Joe“Venuti) was an American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist. He was classically trained in the violin from a young age and studied solfeggio with his grandfather. He later said that while he studied music from him, he did not learn any one instrument but rather music theory in general. He began studying the violin in Philadelphia, and later claimed to have studied at a conservatory, without providing any corroborating details. Despite this, his style of playing was characteristic of someone who had a solid basis in violin technique.

b. September 16, 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
d. August 14, 1978 in Seattle, Washington.

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.

George Benson (by name George Washington Benson) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist. A former child prodigy, Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s, playing soul jazz with Jack McDuff and others. He then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. His album Breezin' was certified triple-platinum, hitting no. 1 on the Billboard album chart in 1976.

b. March 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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