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The Pete Cater Big Band

The Pete Cater Big Band: Upswing!

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2001

The Pete Cater Big Band earned top honors among larger groups last year in the annual Post Office–sponsored British Jazz Awards competition. If you’d like to know why, simply listen to Upswing!, the band’s second album and first on the Vocalion label. From pianist Matt O’Regan’s breezy introduction to his splendid arrangement of Jerome Kern’s “The ...

Playing with Fire

By The Pete Cater Big Band

Label: Jazzizit
Released: 1998
Track listing: Youbetchalife; New Arrival; The Way I Feel; Springtime; A Time for Love; The Suspect; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; Some Other Time; Caravan; Regulator (64:55).

The Pete Cater Big Band: Playing with Fire

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1998

Drummer Pete Cater's big-band debut couldn't have been more appropriately named. Do Cater and his London-area comrades play with fire? “Youbetchalife" they do. The band comes out screamin' on Matt Wilson's galvanic opener (featuring Matt O'Regan's blazing piano) and never falters right on through the final bars of Monty Alexander's “Regulator." Yes, there are moments of ...