Benny Carter has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 1 April 2015. Songs played include What Is This Thing Called Love, Voyage To Next Suite (1973) and Night In Tunisia.

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognised as such by other jazz musicians who called him King.

As a youth, Carter lived in Harlem around the corner from Bubber Miley who was Duke Ellington's…