Further Definitions

{{Short description|Studio album}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Further Definitions

| type = studio

| artist = Benny Carter

| cover = Further Definitions - Benny Carter.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1962, 1966

| recorded = 1961, 1966

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 33:38, 37:45

| label = Impulse!

| producer = Bob Thiele
George Cates, Bob Thiele

| prev_title = Sax ala Carter!

| prev_year = 1960

| next_title = BBB & Co.

| next_year = 1962

}}

Further Definitions is a 1962 jazz album by Benny Carter and his orchestra, rereleased on CD in 1997 coupled with his follow-up album, 1966's Additions to Further Definitions. The earlier album features an all-star octet that includes Coleman Hawkins, with whom Carter had recorded in Paris in 1937, using the same configuration of instruments: four saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.Dance, Stanley (December 1997), [http://jazztimes.com/articles/10054-further-definitions-benny-carter "Benny Carter: Further Definitions"], JazzTimes.Riccardo Di Filippo, [https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/benny-carter/ "Benny Carter"], Enciclopedia del Jazz. Retrieved June 7, 2019.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=further-definitions-mw0000335476}}
(Further Definitions)

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=additions-to-further-definitions-mw0000869423|label=Additions to Further Definitions}}
(Additions to Further Definitions)

| rev3 = DownBeat

| rev3Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}DownBeat: April 26, 1962, vol. 29, no. 9.
(Original Lp version)

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |pages=229–230}}
(Further Definitions)

|rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| page = 37

}}
(Further Definitions)

|rev6 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev6Score = {{rating|3|5}}
(Additions to Further Definitions)

}}

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested "Core Collection", calling it "a good value purchase."

Track listing

:::Further Definitions

  1. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy RazafFats Waller) – 3:50
  2. "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Jones–Cochran–Salvador) – 3:57
  3. "Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar–Meyer–Kahn) – 3:23
  4. "Blue Star" (Carter) – 5:19
  5. "Cotton Tail" (Ellington) – 4:24
  6. "Body and Soul" (Green–Sour–Heyman–Eyton) – 4:09
  7. "Cherry" (Redman–Gilbert) – 4:52
  8. "Doozy" (Carter) – 3:32
     
  9. :Additions to Further Definitions
  10. "Fantastic, That's You" (Cates–Greene–Thiele) – 6:11
  11. "Come on Back" (Carter) – 4:14
  12. "We Were in Love" (Carter) – 4:27
  13. "If Dreams Come True" (Sampson–Goodman–Mills) – 5:49
  14. "Prohibido" (Carter) – 3:20
  15. "Doozy" (Carter) – 5:33
  16. "Rock Bottom" (Carter) – 4:14
  17. "Titmouse" (Carter) – 3:02

1–8 recorded in 1961 in New York City, on 13 November (1–3, 7) and 15 November (4–6, 8).

9–16 recorded in 1966 in Los Angeles, on 2 March (9, 10–13) and 4 March (11, 14–16).

Solo Order, by Track:

  1. Rouse, Woods, Hawkins, Carter
  2. Hawkins, Katz, Carter
  3. Hawkins, Woods, Rouse, Carter, Katz
  4. Hawkins, Carter, Katz, Carter (ad-libbing)
  5. Hawkins, Carter, Rouse, Woods, Hawkins, Katz
  6. Woods, Rouse, Carter, Hawkins
  7. Carter (Intro), Rouse, Carter, Rouse, Woods, Hawkins
  8. Katz, Woods, Hawkins, Carter, Rouse, Katz

Personnel

Further Definitions

Additions to Further Definitions

Production

References

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