Daniel Carter (musician)

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Daniel Carter
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Carter at Downtown Music Gallery in July 2024
Background information
Born Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Genres Free jazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Saxophone, trumpet, flute
Years active1970s–present
Labels577 Records

Daniel Carter is an American free jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, and flute. [1]

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Career

Carter has recorded and performed with many distinguished musicians, including William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, The Negatones, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Soul-Junk, Anne Waldman, Cooper-Moore, Matthew Shipp and scientist/musician Matthew Putman among others. He is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups Test, Other Dimensions In Music, odon, Ghost Moth and Dissipated Face. [2]

In 2007 the Pendu Sound compilation album Getting rid of the glue  with Excepter and Daniel Carter was listed as number 70 in Thurston Moore's "Top 80 of 2006". [3] In 2015 the New York Forward Festival was created to celebrate Carter's 70th birthday.

Discography

Carter at Les Gallery Clemente Soto Velez in New York City, February 5, 2005 Daniel Carter.jpg
Carter at Les Gallery Clemente Soto Velez in New York City, February 5, 2005

As co-leader

With Other Dimensions in Music

With Test

As sideman

With William Parker

With Matthew Shipp

With others

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References

  1. "Dusted Reviews: Daniel Carter and Rueben Radding - Luminescence". www.dustedmagazine.com. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  2. Breznikar, Klemen (December 18, 2014). "Dissipated Face interview". It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine . Archived from the original on May 16, 2017. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  3. Byron Coley; Thurston Moore (March 2007). "Bull Tongue 26". Arthur . Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  4. "The Departing of a Dream, Vol. VII, by Loren Connors & Daniel Carter". Family Vineyard. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  5. "Experiments of Truth, by Kayos Theory". Kayos Theory. Retrieved 2023-06-02.