Regina Carter

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Regina Carter with band 2007

Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966 in Detroit , USA ) is an American violinist who plays primarily in a jazz context .

Live and act

Carter learned the violin from the age of 5 and initially played in the Detroit Youth Symphony , but also began to play pop music from the age of 15. At the New England Conservatory she dealt exclusively with classical music, graduated from a college of Oakland University with a BA in violinist and then spent the next two years in Europe, where she played in a German-American radio band , among other things . Back in Detroit, she played with Marcus Belgrave and joined the women's band Straight Ahead . In the early 1990s she went to New York City , where she first met Mary J. Bligeas well as the Black Rock Coalition and was a member of the String Trio of New York for two years . In 1997 she went on tour with Wynton Marsalis , in whose oratorio Blood On the Fields she played a prominent role. She also worked with Cassandra Wilson , Lauryn Hill , Max Roach , Aretha Franklin , Billy Joel , Oliver Lake , Dolly Parton , Danilo Pérez (Motherland, 2000) and Joe Jackson .

In 1998 she received a recording contract with Verve Records and has released several successful albums there to this day. She was accompanied by jazz musicians such as James Carter (her cousin), Barry Harris , Lewis Nash , Kenny Barron and others. On these records she processed jazz standards such as Tadd Dameron's Our Delight or the ballad Spring Can Really Hang you Up the Most as well as the soul classic Papa Was a Rolling Stone . Her interpretation of Gabriel Faurés Pavane was used as background music for the television series Sex and the City .

Carter has won the Down Beat for best jazz violinist five times in a row . In 2001 she was the first female jazz musician to play on a 250-year-old Guarneri violin , which previously belonged to the violin virtuoso Paganini .

In 2006 she was a MacArthur Fellow .

Discographic notes

  • 2020 Regina Carter Freedom Band, Swing States: Harmony in Battle Ground (Tiger Turn / eOne)
  • 2014 Southern Comfort (Masterworks)
  • 2010 Reverse Thread (E1 Entertainment)
  • 2006: I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey with Carla Cook , Matthew Parrish and others
  • 2003: Paganini-After A Dream ( Verve )
  • 2001: Freefall with Kenny Barron
  • 2000: Motor City Moments (Verve) with James Carter, Barry Harris, Lewis Nash
  • 1998: Rhythms of the Heart (Verve) with Kenny Barron, Marcus Belgrave, Cassandra Wilson
  • 1997: Something for Grace
  • 1995: Regina Carter

literature

  • W. Enstice, J. Stockhouse: Jazzwomen. Conversations with 21 Musicians . Bloomington 2004, ISBN 0-253-34436-0 , pp. 65ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Carter, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit