The Spanish National TV, RTVE.es has generously made online a considerable number of its invaluable jazz programmes, including this treasure from 1976, set in Barcelona, with two giants, Benny Carter and Earl Hines, swinging at ease and delightfully performing classics and standards of the old days.
The rhythm section is composed of Hines' team of 76 with Harley White Jr. on bass and Eddie Graham on drums.
It was in the same year that Carter played along with Ray Bryant, Milt Hinton and Grady Tate at Michael's Pub in New York, where the imminent Whitney Balliett caught him live and mused: "His saxophone solos gave the effect of skywriting: each hung complete in the air before being blown away by the succeeding soloist...he was a handsome man, with intelligent, questing eyes and hundred-watt teeth."
To that add another five-hundred-watt teeth from Mr Hines and enjoy this magic show.
The concert will start after a short introduction in Spanish. Regrettably, Benny goes off-mike quite often.
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