John Carter (clarinetist)

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John Wallace Carter (born September 24, 1929 in Fort Worth , Texas , † March 31, 1991 in Inglewood , California ) was an American jazz musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone ), music educator and composer .

life and work

Carter played with Ornette Coleman and Charles Moffett senior in Fort Worth in the late 1940s and taught Julius Hemphill . After studying music at Lincoln University (Missouri) , he became a music teacher. In 1961 he moved to the west coast for professional reasons. In 1965 he founded a quartet in Los Angeles with trumpeter Bobby Bradford ("New Art Jazz Ensemble"), but also played with Hampton Hawes and Harold Land . From 1972 he led his own groups.

Carter had been a member of James Newton's woodwind ensemble since 1980 . After Joachim Ernst Berendt's experience in Europe at a clarinet summit with Perry Robinson , Gianluigi Trovesi , Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky , Bernd Konrad and Theo Jörgensmann , he founded another American clarinet in 1981 with Alvin Batiste , Jimmy Hamilton and David Murray Summit . After his time as a music teacher, he founded a special Wind College in Culver City , which had an international reputation, to train wind players . The Dutch wind player Ab Baars is one of his students there .

In the 1980s he wrote five suites for octets (each published on CD), which he summarized under the title Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music and which convincingly depict the history of African Americans - from the slave hunt to the present day . With this series of suites he made American music history. In his compositions, Carter was also concerned with creating a balance between white, African American and continental African music.

Just like James Newton, Andrew Cyrille , Marty Ehrlich and Mark Dresser in the USA, the Ab Baars Trio in Europe is dedicated to the compositions of Carter and keeps them in their repertoire.

Selection discography

  • Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music
    • The John Carter Octet: Dauwhe (1982)
    • John Carter: Castles of Ghana (1985)
    • John Carter: Dance of the Love Ghosts (1987)
    • John Carter: Fields (1988)
    • John Carter: Shadows on a Wall (1989)

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SURNAME Carter, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, John Wallace (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1991
Place of death Inglewood