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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Sunday, August 7, 2016
violinist @Regina_Carter ....
Happy Birthday to two #jazz virtuosos: violinist @Regina_Carter (b.1966) & saxophonist @RaviColtrane (b.1965). #happybday— Jazz Standard (@JazzStandardNYC) August 6, 2016
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Regina Carter & Kenny Barron
The Center presents at THE TARKINGTON
Violin star and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, Regina Carter, is paired with jazz piano giant Kenny Barron in an intimate duet setting, first heard on their remarkable 2001 collaboration, Freefall. Barron is a 2010 NEA Jazz Master who has helped define and extend the jazz tradition. A nine-time Grammy nominee, his storied career has included extended associations with Stan Getz, Yusef Lateef and Freddie Hubbard. The Los Angeles Times named him "one of the top jazz pianists in the world” and Jazz Weekly called him “The most lyrical piano player of our time.”
Since emerging from the Detroit scene in the late 1980s, Carter has recorded a series of dazzling albums including Freefall, Motor City Moments, and Paganini: After A Dream. Winner of a coveted 2006 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship, she began researching the African roots of the violin, resulting in her acclaimed 2010 recording Reverse Thread, an entrancing sojourn exploring compositions by artists from Kenya, Mali, and Senegal.
Learn More about Regina Carter!
Learn more about Kenny Barron!
Since emerging from the Detroit scene in the late 1980s, Carter has recorded a series of dazzling albums including Freefall, Motor City Moments, and Paganini: After A Dream. Winner of a coveted 2006 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship, she began researching the African roots of the violin, resulting in her acclaimed 2010 recording Reverse Thread, an entrancing sojourn exploring compositions by artists from Kenya, Mali, and Senegal.
Learn More about Regina Carter!
Learn more about Kenny Barron!
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Violin Virtuoso Regina Carter Takes Listeners On A Musical Exploration
Press Release: Sony Music Masterworks – Mon, 6 Jan, 2014 9:00 AM EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Violinist Regina Carter is considered the foremost jazz violinist of her generation - a designation which doesn't quite paint the picture. As a result of her curiosity, passion, and quest for beauty brought to every stop taken on her full musical journey, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a "genius grant"). Those are more apparent than ever on her upcoming debut Southern Comfort (Sony Music Masterworks), in which she explores the folk music of the South. The album will be released on March 4, 2014 and coincide with an international tour.
Southern Comfort thematically connects Carter's earlier albums I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (2006), which features her mother's favorite early jazz standards; and Reverse Thread (2010) which celebrates the tradition of African music re-imagined for violin, accordion, bass, drams and kora. On her new album she explores the folk tunes her paternal grandfather, a coalminer, would have heard as he toiled in Alabama - and the project expanded to include other folk tunes of the region.
Intent on making the past, present, Regina sought out distant relatives and books about the era in which her grandfather lived. From there, she went to the Library of Congress and the renowned collections of folklorists such as Alan Lomax and John Work III digging deep into their collected field recordings from Appalachia. On Southern Comfort, Regina interprets her own roots through a modern lens.
"When I would hear some of these field recordings, if I heard something that touched me I put it on the list," said Carter. "I had maybe 50 tunes that I felt strongly about, and I finally forced myself to work more on those to stop myself from collecting more."
The 11 tracks on Southern Comfort include Carter's interpretations of Cajun fiddle music, early gospel and coal miner's work songs in addition to some more contemporary tunes.
Read more: http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/violin-virtuoso-regina-carter-takes-140000420.html
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Regina Carter discovers roots while making, researching music
By April 4, 2013
Jazz violinist Regina Carter is bringing the music from her latest African-inspired album to the Lied Center on 7:30 p.m. Friday. In “Reverse Thread,” an accordion and a kora — West African harp — are added to the mix to showcase Carter’s interpretation of traditional melodies from different areas in Africa. A MacArthur Fellow from Detroit, Carter has performed with several symphony orchestras and artists such as Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Billy Joel, Kenny Barron and Mary J. Blige.
Before her performance, Carter chatted with us about her relationship to the music of Africa.
Nadia Imafidon: What drew you to work on “Reverse Thread,” an album of primarily African folk music?
Regina Carter: I grew up in Detroit and I was exposed to a lot of different ethnic cultures there in the city. One of the largest communities after the African-American population is the Arab-Christian population. I would hear so many different styles of music from around the world right there in Detroit, and I was really attracted by all these sounds.
Right out of high school there was a band put together, Earth Ireland. It was a couple of musicians from Chaldea, a couple of jazz musicians, a rock musician, a woman on sitar and vocalist from India. It was to bring the community together in Detroit musically. They recorded some popular tunes, one of them being “Wild Thing,” where one of the verses was sung in Arabic and the other in English. I was just really attracted to the sound. My thought was to start with Arab-Christian music. For my research, I went to the World Music Institute, and while I was there a woman said, “Have you ever heard this CD?” It was a collection of music from the Ugandan Jews, and I didn’t even know there were Jews in Uganda. It was so mesmerizing and beautiful that I started checking out music from other places in Uganda, and from that I got other information that led me to other places on the continent and other music and musicians and that really took my focus.
Read more: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/apr/04/regina-carter-discovers-roots-while-making-researc/
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Regina Carter
With: Larry Fuller - piano & George Fludas - drums.
From Ray's 75th Birthday Concert (2001).
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Day Five in Montreal: Regina Carter, Jeremy Pelt & 4 Funky Quebec Kids!
Radio programmer and host Russ Davis reports on performances by Regina Carter, Jeremy Pelt and 4105 Quartette de l’Uqam during the 2011 Montreal International Jazz Festival
Most of my music listening time at this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival has been spent inside the various beautiful concert halls and clubs, but there is to no way to ignore or underestimate the joys of the free music happening on the many outdoor stages randomly scattered around the festival grounds in the Place des Arts.
During one of my strolls through the grounds I happened upon a quartet of funky Quebec kids who call themselves 4105 Quartette de l’Uqam. It was the music that first got my attention from afar as I heard some funky sounds filling the air and being a sucker for electric improvised music of a groove-oriented nature I thought I’d check it out for a while. It was time well spent.
The band featured a charming young lady behind a piano-electric keyboard set up and three of her funky, young friends including a guitarist who was absolutely on fire with the funk. They were playing familiar tunes and putting their own stamp on them and closed out the set with a song by Stanton Moore, the great drummer and composer from New Orleans and the bands Galactic and Garage-A-Trois.
Anyone who wants to play some Stanton Moore for me is my friend and I was most impressed with this 20-something quartet, their spirit and ability. I felt like the future of groove is alive and well in Montreal and this was a great start to another wonderful night of music here in Montreal that would take me to Africa and beyond. First stop, The Gesu Theatre.
Violinist Regina Carter’s beautiful collection of African folk songs taken to the jazzy side titled Reverse Thread is one of the great releases of the past couple of years in that is a delightful concept beautifully executed and played with a sincere spirit that is modern though true to the original form and idea of the music.
Violinist Regina Carter’s beautiful collection of African folk songs taken to the jazzy side titled Reverse Thread is one of the great releases of the past couple of years in that is a delightful concept beautifully executed and played with a sincere spirit that is modern though true to the original form and idea of the music.
Just after the album was released I had seen Regina perform this music at the club Dizzy’s in New York featuring a kora player from Africa who was simply brilliant. So when I entered the hall and saw no kora among the instruments on stage I was a bit let down.
Again, I need to be more patient and trusting of an artist the stature of Regina Carter. She was not going to let any of us down on this evening as she was joined on stage by a quartet of masters on harp, accordion, drums and bass that would more than make up for anything that I might have perceived as lacking. The harpist was an associate of Regina’s from decades before who she said she’d always wanted to collaborate with again. Well, the wait to work with him was well worth it as he filled every space that the kora could have filled and more.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Regina Carter is making the kind of mark. She recorded with pianist Kenny Barron
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126285452&sc=nl&cc=jn-20100502
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Regina Carter....
Turn to the word “grace” in the dictionary and you will find an unusually lengthy string of complimentary descriptions that includes: virtue from God, fluidity of movement, striking beauty or a most pleasing musical adornment. Above all of these, for jazz violinist supreme Regina Carter, Grace is the name of the woman who left indelible imprints upon her heart, mind and spirit, inspiring her to walk with pride, seek her personal best in all that she endeavored and, specifically, to ornament the world with the soul-stirring sound of music. The woman bearing that poetically apropos name was her mother.
Throughout an enviable career that has been marked by eclectic virtuosity, heart, and stunning fusions of music both celestially classical and earthily modern, Ms. Carter delivers her most stylistically focused work to date with her sixth solo release, I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey. The album was crafted in loving memory of her mother, Grace Louise Carter, who passed away following a long illness in March 2005. “She was the reason for everything my brothers and I are and have,” Regina states. “She sacrificed a lot. We couldn't have asked for anything more. It was difficult after losing her to figure out what I wanted to play, or, if I even wanted to play at all anymore. After some soul searching I thought, ‘Let me honor her by doing some of the tunes that she loved.’”
I'll Be Seeing You is comprised of intimate, authentic, acoustic arrangements of songs spanning the ’20s to the ’40s — tunes that were subliminally or whole-heartedly enjoyed by Regina's mother in her youth. Rallying around Regina to lend her spiritual sunshine and support at what was a difficult time are special guest singers Dee Dee Bridgewater and Carla Cook, clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, accordionist/arranger Gil Goldstein, producer/arranger John Clayton and current band members: pianist Xavier Davis, bassist Matthew Parrish and drummer Alvester Garnett. “It was such a gift to be able to do this recording with these musicians. They gave me absolute hope and love.”
Regina Carter’s immersion in music began at the age of two when she took up piano, followed by violin at the age of four. Forever indebted to the Suzuki method of music teaching, the approach freed her from the rigid restraints of solely reading music and opened her to the wonders of improvisation. Though her original focus was classical music, with the hope of being a soloist with a major symphony, the pull of Detroit’s rich soul music legacy and the discovery of jazz broadened her horizons.
Regina attended Detroit's prestigious Cass Technical High School. Upon graduating, she departed for the New England Conservatory of Music, only to return to Michigan’s Oakland University, seasoning her chops by gigging with several local musicians. She later joined the attention-grabbing all-female quartet Straight Ahead which recorded two albums for Atlantic Records. Carter departed the band in 1994, recording two solo albums for Atlantic while also making the most of her newfound New York connections by working with the likes of the String Trio of New York, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Greg Tate and the Black Rock Coalition.
Carter joined Verve Records in 1998 and has since recorded four critically acclaimed works of astounding maturity and variety: Rhythms of the Heart, Motor City Moments (also produced by John Clayton) and Paganini: After a Dream (for which she made history by being the first African American and jazz musician to travel to Genoa, Italy to perform and record with the legendary Guarneri del Gesu violin owned by classical music virtuoso Niccolò Paganini), and a duet project with pianist Kenny Baron entitled Freefall. Her playing has also graced work that includes filmmaker Ken Burns’ soundtrack for the PBS documentary, Jazz; Wynton Marsalis’ opera Blood on the Fields; Cassandra Wilson’s tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles; and the queen of hip-hop soul Mary J. Blige. In the summer of 2006, Regina will join Latin Jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri for some dates related to his latest recording, the Grammy® award-winning, Listen Here, on which she was also a guest.
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/reginacarter
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