Daniel Carter (musician)

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

Life and work

Daniel Carter has worked since the early 1970s in New York's free jazz scene. During this time he took occasionally with Gunter Hampel and Bob Moses. As he had difficulty finding gigs, he worked in 1978 primarily 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 played. In addition, Carter played in the 1980s with punk rock groups.

In the 1990s, Carter continued to work with Other Dimensions In Music; next he played in a quartet called Test, Sabir Mateen to the, bassist Matthew Heyner and drummer Tom Bruno belonged and which occurred regularly in subway stations. Outside of jazz Carter worked with the avant-garde rock songwriter David Grubbs and electronic musicians Spring Heel Jack and DJ Logic. Since 1999, he also took some albums under his own name for the label AUM Fidelity and Thirsty Ear. In 2006 he went with his wizard trio on tour of Italy.

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

Disco Graphical Notes

Albums under his own name

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

Albums as a sideman

  • Roy Campbell: Now! (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
  • Paul Flaherty: Resonance ( Zaabway, 1997)
  • Bob Moses: Bitter Suite 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 ( ATo Fidelity, 1998)
  • Live / TEST ( Eremite, 1998)
215105
de