Lou Carter
Louis "Lou" Carter (born September 15, 1918 in Newark , New Jersey , † September 25, 2005 in Bloomfield , New Jersey) was an American jazz pianist .
Carter played in various big bands, including a. those of Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Gray . With other members of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra , he founded the trio The Soft Winds in 1946 , alongside Carter that were Herb Ellis and Johnny Frigo . The group made recordings on the Majestic and Mercury labels and wrote the hits I Told Ya, I Love Ya, Now Get Out and Detour Ahead . The latter became the jazz standard and was recorded by musicians such as Billie Holiday , Sarah Vaughan , Ella Fitzgerald , Irene Kral , Stan Getz and Woody Herman .
After the trio split up, Carter was a sideman of various groups, including a. In 1959 he worked on two albums by Buck Clayton . During the Floating Jazz Festival 1995 there was a reunion of the soft winds . The double album Then and Now: The Soft Winds, 1946-1996 was created from previously unpublished radio recordings from 1947–1948 and eleven new recordings .
Web links
- Lou Carter's audio recordings in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Carter, Lou |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carter, Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2005 |
| Place of death | Bloomfield , New Jersey |