Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

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🎬 Movie

Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

📅 1990 ⭐ 9.0 🕐 58m

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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

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Cast

Self - Narrator

Self (archive footage)

Leonard Feather

Ella Fitzgerald

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Crew

Director Harrison Engle Cinematography Philip Hurn Executive Producer Lucille Ostrow Producer Harrison Engle Writer Theodore Strauss

Production

Gannett/Anacapa

Lucille Ostrow Production

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