Grammy Award, presented to Benny Carter
Object Details
- recipient
- Carter, Benny
- Description
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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Hilma Carter
- presentation date
- 1994
- ID Number
- 2007.0013.02
- accession number
- 2007.0013
- catalog number
- 2007.0013.02
- Object Name
- award
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- 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
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1317652
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-4bba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa