Jazz Articles about Daniel Carter

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Daniel Carter / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi: Keeping It In Context

Read "Keeping It In Context" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
September 30, 2026

This resounding blast from the past affirms drummer Lou Grassi's decision to flip from mainly commercial music to the adventurous end of the spectrum. He recorded Keeping It In Context in a 1996 session with some of New York City's finest avant practitioners following PoGressions (CJR, 1996), the date that led to him first dipping his toe in the free jazz waters. However, over time he forgot about the tapes. But when they resurfaced in 2023, their quality was immediately ...

Album Review

Richard Bliwas with Daniel Carter: Insomnia

Read "Insomnia" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 10, 2026

There is something very, very Bitches Brew (Columbia Records, 1970) about Insomnia, an ear-catching mind-bending excursion through the virtuosity, imagination, and humanness of pianist/drummer/synthesist Richard Bliwas and elder empath, saxophonist and free jazz mentor, Daniel Carter. Maybe the alluring title opener, or “Ottawa WaWa," and the most lucid “You Went Into A Mesmerizing Trance," are really a newly discovered suite of lost sessions from those August 1969 gatherings at Columbia Records' Studio B at 49 East 52nd Street in ...

Radio & Podcasts

Celebrating 577 Records

by Hobart Taylor
November 20, 2024

This week we celebrate the artist driven label 577 Records by sharing a sampling of releases by Daniel Carter, Frank Carlberg, Eva Novoa, Eunhye Jeong, Mette Henriette, Zoh Amba, Sean Conley, and others.Playlist Frank Carlberg Trio “ Bemsha Cubano" from Reflections 1952 (577) 0:00 Frank Carlberg Trio “ Reflecting Reflections" from Reflections 1952 (577) 5:15 Svoboda O Connor Green “A Proposition" (577) 10:51 Yuma Uesaka Marilyn Crispell “Iterations I" (Not Two/Polyfold) 14:42 Host Speaks 20:59 Daniel Carter Leo ...

Album Review

Daniel Carter / Adriano Camacho / Federico Ughi: Trabajadores De Energia

Read "Trabajadores De Energia" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
October 10, 2024

Jazz must be one of the most cosmopolitan art forms going. A case in point would be American multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and Brooklyn-based Italian drummer Federico Ughi, the twin founders of NYC's esteemed 577 Records imprint, met with Mexican bassist Adriana Camacho in Italy in Spring 2023. The title of the resultant Trabajadores De Energia, “Power Workers" in English perhaps, might suggest a needle-in-the-red blow-out, but Carter does not lean that way anymore. After a tenure in such fire-breathing outfits ...

Album Review

Daniel Carter, Matthew Putman, Federico Ughi: Stream of a Dream

Read "Stream of a Dream" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 22, 2024

Whether the listener accepts a certain definition of logistics as set in scriptural stone or they do not, does not really faze the the logics of saxophone colossus Daniel Carter, pianist Matthew Putman, and drummer Federico Ughi when they report to the stage and cavort with the muse. At the core of the whole 577 Records rogue legend and the beating heart of The Telepathic Band, Carter, Potter and Ughi have covered this territory before but not like ...

Album Review

Daniel Carter: Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2

Read "Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 11, 2024

Do we ever run out of music? Do the fanboy and girl ever forget their first song? Do composers, and players of every stripe (though the court is out on most pop mavens and mistresses), ever come upon their very last note? Saxophonist, multi-reedist and free-jazz icon Daniel Carter certainly has not. And Telepathic Mysteries Vol. 2 may just be Carter's key witness. For more often than not, the rhizome-like symbiotic crusade that the album embarks upon is a music ...

Album Review

Playfield: Magic Heart

Read "Magic Heart" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 10, 2024

Daniel Carter, who--if not the epitome of free consciousness then is very well within the immediate vicinity of striking range--gives props to electric Miles Davis and The Beatles' psychedelica with mischief and madness on the hell bent and heaven sent Magic Heart. Their second entrance into the Carter's life long discography, Playfield is a true Carter collective: intuitively passing the torch from vocalist Luisa Muhr, to Ayumi Ishito, tenor sax and electronics, pianist Eric Plaks, guitarists/electronics Aron Namenwirth ...