Daniel Carter (musician)

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Daniel Carter (born December 28, 1945 in Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute , trumpet ).

Life

Daniel Carter had been working on the New York free jazz scene since the early 1970s . During this time he occasionally recorded with Gunter Hampel and Bob Moses . Since he had difficulty finding opportunities to perform, he worked around 1978 mainly as a street musician. In 1981 he became a member of the musicians' collective Other Dimensions in Music , in which Roy Campbell , William Parker and Rashid Bakr also played. Carter also played with punk rock groups in the 1980s .

Carter continued to work with Other Dimensions In Music through the 1990s ; he also played in a quartet called Test , which included Sabir Mateen , bassist Matthew Heyner and drummer Tom Bruno and which performed regularly in underground stations. Outside of jazz, Carter worked with avant-garde rock songwriter David Grubbs and electronic musicians Spring Heel Jack and DJ Logic . Since 1999 he has also recorded several albums under his own name for the AUM Fidelity and Thirsty Ear labels . In 2006 he went on tour in Italy with his Wizard Trio .

Carter has also worked with Paul Flaherty , Federico Ughi , The Negatones , Thurston Moore , Yo La Tengo , Soul-Junk , Cooper-Moore and Matthew Shipp . According to Dusted magazine , Carter plays in a cool jazz tone similar to Lee Konitz .

Discographic notes

Albums under your own name

  • Language ( Origin , 2001)
  • Principle Hope (Sublingual, 2002)
  • Luminiscence (AUM Fidelity, 2003) with Reuben Radding
  • Nivesana (Epoch, 2008)

Collaborative band projects

  • Daniel Carter and Federico Ughi: Extra Room ( 577 Records , 2014)
  • Daniel Carter / William Parker / Matthew Shipp : Seraphic Light [Live at Tufts University] (AUM Fidelity, 2018)
  • Daniel Carter / Patrick Holmes / Matthew Putman / Hilliard Greene / Federico Ughi: Telepatia Liquida (577 Records, 2018)
  • Daniel Carter / Hillard Greene / David Haney : Live Constructions (2018)
  • Aron Namenwirth / Daniel Carter / Joe Hertenstein / Zach Swanson : Live at the Bushwick Series (Gaucimusic, 2020)
  • Daniel Carter / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver: Welcome Adventure! (577 Records, 2020)

Albums as a sideman

  • Roy Campbell: Now! (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
  • Gunter Hampel & His Galaxie Dream Band: Angel (Birth, 1972)
  • Paul Flaherty: Resonance (Zaabway, 1997)
  • Bob Moses: Bittersuite in the Ozone (Amulet, 1973)
  • Other Dimensions in Music: Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
  • William Parker: Painter's Spring (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
  • Matthew Shipp: Strata (HatOLOGY, 1997); Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear, ca.2001)
  • Test: Live / TEST (Eremite, 1998, with Tom Bruno, Matthew Heyner, Sabir Mateen)
  • Invitation The King's Waltz ( Konnex Records 2006)
  • Matthew Shipp: Not Bound (2017)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dusted magazine
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilkinsburg , Pennsylvania