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Regina Carter: Improvising a Life in Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Regina Carter's mother had everything planned out. Her precocious daughter, whose violin teacher was so impressed with Regina's musical potential that she was placed in an accelerated Suzuki program at age 4, would become a classical violinist. Regina would play in a respected symphony orchestra -- preferably in her hometown of Detroit. She would earn a ...
Paganini: After a Dream
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Pavane pour une defunte, Black Orpheus, Pavane, Oblivion, Reverie, Healing in Foreign Lands,
Apres un reve, excerpt from Alexandra, Cinema Paradiso
Regina Carter: Paganini: After a Dream
by Dan McClenaghan
Nicolo Paganini's ghost made the first overture when the city of Genoa, Italy--the legendary violinist's birthplace--invited the American jazz musician Regina Carter to play a concert on the master's priceless two hundred and fifty year old violin, “The Cannon"--so named for its huge sound and sonorous tone. Ms. Carter came, she played; the concert ...
