Artist: James Carter
Genre(s):
New Age
Jazz
Discography:
In Carterian Fashion
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Jurassic Classics
Year: 1995
Tracks: 7
Cyrus Chestnut.-Duets
Year:
Tracks: 6
After Wynton Marsalis, no one caused more of an katzenjammer than James Carter did when he appeared on the New York jazz scene from his native Detroit. Carter's debut recording, JC on the Set, issued in Japan when he was only 23 and in the States a year later in 1993, was universally acclaimed as the finest debut by a saxophonist in decades. Critics lauded his power to wager in well-nigh any malarky style without appearance to aper anyone. Carter, wHO began performing at 11 and studied with herald Marcus Belgrave, was a prodigy. He played and toured with Marsalis in 1986 at the eld of 17 and became a phallus of Lester Bowie's band upon relocating to New York in 1988. Carter issued no less than six recordings under his own name between 1993 and 2000, all of them with dissimilar focuses, from a congeal of standards, Conversin' with the Elders in 1995, to an galvanising funk record, Layin' in the Cut, to a at the same time released do in testimonial to Django Reinhardt, Chasin the Gypsy. Three years later, he esteemed the fabled Billie Holiday with Gardenias for Lady Day. Jumping ship from Columbia to Warner Bros., Carter's Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge followed in leaping 2004. Another live session, Out of Nowhere, was released in 2005 on the sovereign label Half Note. Carter has continued his whirlwind of activity, playing on session and in live settings with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Cyrus Chestnut, Rodney Whitaker, Frank Lowe, the late Julius Hemphill, pop-jazz isaac Bashevis Singer Madeleine Peyroux, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Tough Young Tenors, and the Charles Mingus Big Band.
