Jazz Great Benny Carter Dead at 95 in Los Angeles By Kevin Krolicki LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Legendary jazz pioneer and big band leader Benny Carter, who helped break Hollywood's bar to black composers, died on Saturday at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, friends said on Sunday. He was 95. Reuters Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Jazz Great Benny Carter Dies at 95 Carter, who was one of the first black composers and arrangers to work on mainstream Hollywood films, including such classics as "Stormy Weather," had been hospitalized for about two weeks, complaining of bronchitis and fatigue, said...