CARTER, BENNETT LESTER (BENNY
). Jazz saxophonist/Trumpeter ( in New York. New York). He came from a musical family: his father played guitar, his mother played piano, and a cousin,
Theodore (Cuban
) Bennett
, was a professional jazz trumpeter. He was inspired to learn trumpet by his cousin and James (Bubber
) Miley, but settled instead on the saxophone, which he studied with Francis Mikell and
Arthur Reeves
. Later in his career he returned to the trumpet. He began playing...