{{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! Records|Impulse!]] | producer = [[Bob Thiele]], [[George Cates]] | 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 [[Compact disc|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 [[saxophone]]s, [[piano]], [[guitar]], [[Double bass|bass]], and [[Drum kit|drums]].<ref>Dance, Stanley (December 1997), [http://jazztimes.com/articles/10054-further-definitions-benny-carter "Benny Carter: Further Definitions"], ''JazzTimes''.</ref><ref>Riccardo Di Filippo, [https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/benny-carter/ "Benny Carter"], ''Enciclopedia del Jazz''. Retrieved June 7, 2019.</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=further-definitions-mw0000335476}}</ref><br />(''Further Definitions'') | rev2 = AllMusic | rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=additions-to-further-definitions-mw0000869423|label=Additions to Further Definitions}}</ref><br />(''Additions to Further Definitions'') | rev3 = ''[[DownBeat]]'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>''[[DownBeat]]'': April 26, 1962, vol. 29, no. 9.</ref><br />(''Original Lp'' version) |rev4 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev4score = {{Rating|4|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{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|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |pages=229–230}}</ref><br>(''Further Definitions'') |rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]'' | rev5Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{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 }}</ref><br>(''Further Definitions'') |rev6 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev6Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG/><br>(''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."<ref name="Penguin"/>
==Track listing== :::''Further Definitions'' #"[[Honeysuckle Rose (song)|Honeysuckle Rose]]" ([[Andy Razaf]]–[[Fats Waller]]) – 3:50 #"The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Jones–Cochran–Salvador) – 3:57 #"Crazy Rhythm" (Caesar–Meyer–Kahn) – 3:23 #"Blue Star" (Carter) – 5:19 #"[[Cotton Tail]]" (Ellington) – 4:24 #"Body and Soul" (Green–Sour–Heyman–Eyton) – 4:09 #"Cherry" (Redman–Gilbert) – 4:52 #"Doozy" (Carter) – 3:32<br /> #:''Additions to Further Definitions'' #"Fantastic, That's You" (Cates–Greene–Thiele) – 6:11 #"Come on Back" (Carter) – 4:14 #"We Were in Love" (Carter) – 4:27 #"If Dreams Come True" (Sampson–Goodman–Mills) – 5:49 #"Prohibido" (Carter) – 3:20 #"Doozy" (Carter) – 5:33 #"Rock Bottom" (Carter) – 4:14 #"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).''<br /> ''9–16 recorded in 1966 in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], on 2 March (9, 10–13) and 4 March (11, 14–16).''
Solo Order, by Track: # Rouse, Woods, Hawkins, Carter # Hawkins, Katz, Carter # Hawkins, Woods, Rouse, Carter, Katz # Hawkins, Carter, Katz, Carter (ad-libbing) # Hawkins, Carter, Rouse, Woods, Hawkins, Katz # Woods, Rouse, Carter, Hawkins # Carter (Intro), Rouse, Carter, Rouse, Woods, Hawkins # Katz, Woods, Hawkins, Carter, Rouse, Katz
==Personnel== ''Further Definitions'' *[[Benny Carter]] – alto saxophone *[[Phil Woods]] – alto saxophone *[[Coleman Hawkins]] – tenor saxophone *[[Charlie Rouse]] – tenor saxophone *[[John Collins (jazz guitarist)|John Collins]] – guitar *[[Dick Katz]] – piano *[[Jimmy Garrison]] – bass *[[Jo Jones]] – drums
''Additions to Further Definitions'' *[[Benny Carter]] – alto saxophone *[[Bud Shank]] – alto saxophone *[[Teddy Edwards]] – tenor saxophone *[[Buddy Collette]] – tenor saxophone (9–10, 12–13) *[[Bill Perkins (saxophonist)|Bill Perkins]] – tenor saxophone (11, 14–16) *Bill Hood – baritone saxophone *[[Barney Kessel]] – guitar (9–10, 12–13) *[[Mundell Lowe]] – guitar (11, 14–16) *[[Don Abney]] – piano *[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] – bass *[[Alvin Stoller]] – drums
'''Production''' *Johnny Cue - engineer *[[Pete Turner (photographer)|Pete Turner]] - photography
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/music/detail.aspx?pid=9586&aid=2812 Impulse!/Verve page]
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