Swing icon Benny Carter's seven-decade career means there's always more to explore. Too often his elegant sides from the ‘30s are overlooked—his alto sax sparkles amid a lovely arrangement on “Just a Mood”—but so is the fact that he was able to adapt to bossa nova alongside Stan Getz on “Only Trust Your Heart”. At the same time, his 1990 collaboration with Phil Woods on “Sultry Serenade” proves he played at a high level into his eighties.