Grammy Award, presented to Benny Carter: Museum Object and Cultural History
Grammy Award, presented to Benny Carter: presentation date: 1994. recipient: Carter, Benny. Object Name: award.
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This award was presented to Benny Carter by The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), in 1994. It is a black lacquered wood base with a gold-tone gramophone on top and engraved metal plate. Jazz musician Benny Carter received this Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for his recording of "Prelude to a Kiss,” from his album Elegy in Blue. The metal plate is marked:
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS & SCIENCES BENNY CARTER, Soloist BEST JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO – 1994 "PRELUDE TO A KISS"
Benny Carter, born in New York City in 1907, was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader who made a significant contribution to jazz throughout his seventy year career. He has received two Grammy Awards, and in 1986 was granted the NEA Jazz Masters award by The National Endowment for the Arts. Carter died in 2003 at the age of 95.
Materials, dates and provenance
- presentation date: 1994
- recipient: Carter, Benny
- Object Name: award
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: wood (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9 1/2 in x 6 in x 6 in; 24.13 cm x 15.24 cm x 15.24 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 2007.0013.02
- accession number: 2007.0013
- catalog number: 2007.0013.02
- Credit Line: Gift of Hilma Carter
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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