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Is this legit? How much is it actually "extremely rare on CD"?

I'm in!!!

A couple of quite different platters to star the day:

👍🏽 That was the first JPJ disc I owned.

He played A LOT OF piano!!!

Pianist Bennie Green just posted this on FB, together with a photo of himself accompanying Benny Carter with his trio: ”With the great bassist and human Ed Howard, accompanying a bonafide first-generation grandmaster -- the saxophonist/trumpeter/vocalist/composer-arranger Benny Carter. Our drummer and friend George Fludas is unfortunately out-of-view in this photo. To my unspeakably great fortune, Jordi Sunol, who's long invested in the vital importance of connecting generations in Jazz, arranged a couple of festival sets with my trio accompanying Mr. Carter, that were scheduled amidst our individual tours. I believe this photo is from 1995. This kind of meeting of younger and older musicians with clear showings of respect and reverence from us to our elders, was exponentially more prevalent back when more first and second-generation masters were still with us, and my contemporaries and I sought their acceptance and hopefully, their approval to play with them. Many of us genuinely wanted to be able to play in the styles that our elders needed, and conversely, our priorities were focussed on learning a great language; we weren't in a rush to dismiss what was already established in a mad dash to distinguish ourselves as young figureheads. After the gig, I asked Mr. Carter, "Seeing as you've played with everyone in the music, I'm very curious to ask whether you have a favorite accompanist?". Mr. Carter actually reflected on my question for a few seconds, then finally he replied, "I guess I'd have to say Oscar -- because he plays all that piano, but he never gets in your way!"”.