http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...-2003Jul14.html
Some nice quotes.
"The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he. "
-- Duke Ellington (Metronome, 11/43)
"Everybody ought to listen to Benny. He's a whole musical education."
-- Miles Davis (to Leonard Feather, Down Beat, 5/25/61)
"You got Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and my man, the Earl of Hines, right? Well, Benny's right up there with all them cats. Everybody that knows who he is calls him 'King.' He is a king!"
-- Louis Armstrong (in A Call to Assembly by Willie Ruff, Viking, 1991)