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The Benny Carter Big Band	47:24
1-1	Vine Street Rumble Written-By – Benny Carter	11:21
1-2	Sao Paolo Written-By – Benny Carter	5:05
1-3	I Can't Get Started Written-By – Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke	5:42
1-4	Stockholm Sweetnin' Written-By – Quincy Jones	5:34
1-5	Evening Star Written-By – Benny Carter	8:31
1-6	How High The Moon Written-By – William M. Lewis, Jr.*, Nancy Hamilton	11:02
The Benny Carter Big Band And The Rutgers University Orchestra	52:58
Tales Of The Rising Sun Suite	25:49
2-1	August Moon	4:26
2-2	Teatime	3:51
2-3	Song Of Long Ago	5:06
2-4	SamuraI Song	3:07
2-5	Chow Chow	9:19
Harlem Renaissance Suite	26:29
2-6	Lament For Langston	5:05
2-7	Sugar Hill Slow Drag	5:04
2-8	Happy Feet	6:54
2-9	Sunday Morning	4:15
2-10	Happy Feet-Reprise	5:11

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – BMG Music
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – MusicMasters, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – MusicMasters, Inc.

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Flute – Ralph Bowen
• Arranged By – Benny Carter (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6)
• Artwork By [Design] – Kristen Stephen
• Baritone Saxophone, Flute – Danny Bank
• Bass – Lisle Atkinson
• Bassoon – John Atteberry (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Cello – Alex Kramer (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Bridget MacRae (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Tu Qiang (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Wendy Tummon (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Composed By, Arranged By – Benny Carter (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Conductor, Saxophone [Alto] – Benny Carter
• Drums – Kenny Washington
• Engineer – Gregory K. Squires, James Nichols
• Engineer [Assistant] – Mary Van Houten
• Ensemble [Big Band] – The Benny Carter Big Band (tracks: 1-1 to 2-10)
• Flute – Katie Evans (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Guitar – Remo Palmier*
• Harp – Gloria Agostini (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Horns – Richard Rosolino (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Susan Kynkor (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Orchestra – The Rutgers University Orchestra (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Orchestrated By – Jack Hayes (tracks: 2-3 and 2-4)
• Percussion – N. Scott Robinson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Photography [Cover] – Mitchell Seidel
• Piano – Chris Neville
• Producer – Ed Berger
• Saxophone – Frank Wess, Loren Schoenberg
• Tenor Saxophone – Jeff Rupert
• Trombone – Benny Powell, Curtis Hasselbring, Dennis Wilson, Eddie Bert
• Trumpet – John Eckert, Michael Mossman*, Richard Grant , Virgil Jones
• Viola – Clifford Young (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Harold Levin (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Jacqueline Young (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Mu Ning (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Violin [First, Orchestral Tracks] – Anna Lim* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Violin [First] – Grace Lee (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Michael Locati (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Orlando Wells (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Rebecca Engstrom (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Ruo Tao Mao (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Suzanne Gilman (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
• Violin [Second] – Amy Hegarty (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Brigit Hammerling (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Michael Jamanis (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Norma Stites (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Yi Ying Qiao (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10), Yi-Wen Jiang (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)

Notes

Recorded February 7 and 9, 1992 at the State Theatre, part of the New Brunswick Cultural Center, New Brunswick, NJ.
Inside photos courtesy of the Institute of Jazz Studies.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 1612-65080-2 3

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
844 299-2	Benny Carter	Harlem Renaissance ‎(2xCD, Album)	Limelight, MusicMasters Jazz	844 299-2	Europe	1992
523365X	Benny Carter	Harlem Renaissance ‎(2xCD)	Jazz Heritage	523365X	US	1993

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