Benny Carter was renowned for his playing and arranging and those acknowledgements go back to his first professional associations.  Here are recordings he did between 1928 and 1931 with Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra, Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, The Chocolate Dandies and McKinney's Cotton Pickers (featuring Don Redman, Coleman Hawkins, Sidney DeParis, Rex Stewart, Bobby Stark, Joe Smith, Jimmy Harrison, Claude Jones, Ed Cuffee, Prince Robinson, Fats Waller, Todd Rhodes, and J.C. Higginbotham)