Benny Morton (31 Jan 1907 - 28 Dec 1985)

Male Person - United States

Releases (1)

Official

Album - Compilation

  1. The Chronological Classics: Benny Morton 1934-1945 1996

Relationships (2)

Member Of

  1. The World’s Greatest Jazzband trombone
  2. Count Basie Band

Recordings by (8)

  1. The Gold Digger's Song (We're in the Money) 3:09 (01 Sep 1993)
  2. The Sheik of Araby 4:29 (22 Sep 1998)
  3. Conversing in Blue 4:45 (22 Sep 1998)
  4. Limehouse Blues 4:14 (23 Mar 2004)
  5. Where Or When 4:40 (2013)
  6. Liza 4:22 (2013)
  7. Once In A While 4:44 (2013)
  8. Sliphorn Outing 4:34 (2013)

On Recordings (50)

Instruments

  1. You Rascal, You 3:03 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  2. I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby (And My Baby’s Crazy ’Bout Me) 3:12 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  3. Singin’ the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home) 2:51 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  4. The House of David Blues 3:10 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  5. Sugar Foot Stomp 3:10 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  6. Just Blues 3:10 Connie's Inn Orchestra (1931) trombone
  7. Doin’ the New Low Down 3:10 Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway with Don Redman and His Orchestra (1933) trombone
  8. If You Were Mine 3:13 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (1935) trombone
  9. Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 3:15 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (1935) trombone
  10. All My Life 3:13 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald (1936) trombone
  11. My Melancholy Baby 3:01 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (1936) trombone
  12. Back in Your Own Backyard 2:41 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra (12 Jan 1938) trombone
  13. When a Woman Loves a Man 2:25 Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra (12 Jan 1938) trombone
  14. Swinging the Blues 2:47 Count Basie and His Orchestra (Jun 1938) trombone
  15. Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today 2:59 Count Basie and His Orchestra (Jun 1938) trombone
  16. Doggin’ Around 3:03 Count Basie and His Orchestra (Aug 1938) trombone
  17. Blue and Sentimental 3:13 Count Basie and His Orchestra (Aug 1938) trombone
  18. When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) 2:51 Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra (1938) tenor trombone
  19. Every Tub 3:16 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1938) trombone
  20. Now Will You Be Good 2:48 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1938) trombone
  21. You’re My Favorite Memory 3:15 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra with Helen Ward (Sep 1944) trombone
  22. Out of Nowhere 3:29 Lena Horne with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (Sep 1944) trombone
  23. Prisoner of Love 3:23 Lena Horne with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra (Nov 1944) trombone
  24. I’m Lost 2:47 Warren Evans (1944) trombone
  25. Hurricane Blues 3:11 Earl Bostic (Nov 1945) trombone
  26. The Man I Love 3:16 Earl Bostic and his Orchestra (Nov 1945) trombone
  27. Worried Life Blues 2:53 Oscar Pettiford Orchestra (1945) trombone
  28. Empty Bed Blues – Part I 2:33 Oscar Pettiford Orchestra (1945) trombone
  29. All On 3:14 Earl Bostic and his Orchestra (Jul 1946) trombone
  30. The Major and the Minor 2:55 Earl Bostic and his Orchestra (Jul 1946) trombone
  31. Something for You 2:31 Oscar Pettiford Orchestra (1946) trombone
  32. Empty Bed Blues, Part 2 2:34 Oscar Pettiford & His All Stars Featuring Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas (1946) trombone
  33. Rose Room ?:?? Eddie Condon and His Band (Dec 1947) trombone
  34. No Body Knows You When You Are Down and Out ?:?? Eddie Condon and His Band (Dec 1947) trombone
  35. I Got What It Takes 3:05 Hot Lips Page and His Orchestra (1949) trombone
  36. Double-Trouble Blues 3:21 Hot Lips Page and His Orchestra (1949) trombone
  37. My Old Flame 4:12 Benny Morton, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Sammy Benskin, Israel Crosby, Eddie Dougherty (1951) trombone
  38. It's the Talk of the Town 4:37 Coleman Hawkins & Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954) trombone
  39. Fore! 6:55 Coleman Hawkins & Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954) trombone
  40. Ready for Freddie 2:59 Coleman Hawkins & Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954) trombone
  41. Just a Groove 7:45 Buck Clayton (1954) trombone
  42. Kandee 7:54 Buck Clayton (1954) trombone
  43. Love Is Just Around the Corner 3:52 Buck Clayton (1954) trombone
  44. Under the Sweetheart Tree 5:25 Coleman Hawkins & Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954) trombone
  45. Dynaflow 4:52 Coleman Hawkins & Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954) trombone
  46. I Can't Get Started 10:58 Buck Clayton (1954) trombone
  47. Song of the Islands 3:04 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1956) trombone
  48. Taxi War Dance 2:50 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1956) trombone
  49. Twelfth Street Rag 3:05 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1956) trombone
  50. Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie 2:30 Count Basie and His Orchestra (1956) trombone

Credited as (5)

  1. Benny Morton
  2. Benny Morton and His Orchestra
  3. Benny Morton / Claude Jones / Bill Harris
  4. Benny Morton, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Sammy Benskin, Israel Crosby, Eddie Dougherty
  5. Earl Warren, Jack Washington, Arthur Bernstein, Jo Jones, Charlie Christian, Freddie Green, Albert Ammons, Count Basie, Meade Lux Lewis, Buddy Tate, Lester Young, Benny Morton, Dan Minor, Dickie Wells, Buck Clayton, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison & Shad Collins

Links (12)

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87111581
  2. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87111581
  3. http://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w61c2hhm
  4. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138977384
  5. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/105496
  6. https://d-nb.info/gnd/134573595
  7. https://ibdb.com/person.php?id=104353

Wikipedia

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morton

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/312958

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000758457

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/7574788

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352013