Birth Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.

Birth Name: Bennett Lester Carter

Member of:
The Chocolate Dandies
McKinney's Cotton Pickers

Associated Acts:
Billie Holiday
Ray Charles
Dizzy Gillespie
Oscar Peterson
Phil Woods
Marian McPartland

Genres:
Jazz
Swing

Instruments:
Saxophone
Trumpet
Clarinet

Did You Know: He died on July 12th, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.