Film · Documentary, Music
Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990)
★ 9.0 · 1 votesIMDb★ 6.5 · 19 votes58 minDocumentary, Music1990
Burt Lancaster narrates this overview of the incredible career of jazz saxophonist Benny Carter, one of the chief architects of the Big Band sound. COMMENTARY BY QUINCY JONES, DIZZY GILLESPIE, ELLA FITZGERALD, LENA HORNE AND MORE
- Director
- Harrison Engle
- Writers
- Theodore Strauss
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 26, 1990
Cast
Benny CarterSelf
Burt LancasterSelf - Narrator
Nat King ColeSelf (archive footage)- Leonard FeatherSelf
Ella FitzgeraldSelf
Dizzy GillespieSelf
Billie HolidaySelf (archive footage)
Lena HorneSelf (archive footage)
Quincy JonesSelf- Stanley JordanSelf
Ella Mae MorseSelf (archive footage)- André PrevinSelf
David SanbornSelf
Clark TerrySelf
