Allen Carter

Allen Carter Big Band: Time on My Hands

by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2016

In 2010, composer / arranger / drummer Allen Carter seemingly appeared from out of nowhere (North Dakota, actually) to record Gifts, his first album as a big-band leader and one of the more impressive anthologies in that or any other year. As 2016 passed its midpoint and moved inexorably toward a final bow, Carter decided the time had come to record again, and in so doing held fast to the maxim “if it ain't broke, don't fix it." In other ...