Another great loss in the world of music.

Benny Carter, whose combination of highly developed talents as composer, arranger, bandleader and soloist on a variety of instruments was unmatched in the jazz world, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 95.

Carter's career was remarkable for both its length and its consistently high musical achievement, from his first recordings in the 1920s to his youthful-sounding improvisations in the 1990s. His pure-toned, impeccably phrased performances made him one of the two pre-eminent alto saxophonists in jazz, with Johnny Hodges, from the late 1920s until the arrival of Charlie Parker in the mid-1940s…

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      - Mark