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| James Carter (2003) | |
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| Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet. As a young man, he attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and was a member of the group, Bird-Trane-Sco-Now. On his album, Chasin' the Gypsy (2000), he recorded with his cousin Regina Carter, a jazz violinist. Carter has won the critics' choice award for baritone saxophone three years in a row from Down Beat magazine. He has played on albums with Cyrus Chestnut, Wynton Marsalis and the Mingus Big Band |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Billie Holiday and Lester Young | The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 4 | Mean to Me | (Columbia) |
| # 2 | Duke Ellington | 70th Birthday Concert | 4:30 Blues/El Gato | (Blue Note) |
| # 3 | Eddie Harris | Playing with Myself | N/A | (RCA) |
| # 4 | World Saxophone Quartet | Revue | Revue | (Black Saint) |
| # 5 | The Funk Brothers | Standing in the Shadows of Motown | N/A | (Hip-O) |
| # 6 | The Quintet of the Hot Club of France | 1944-1946 | Nuages/Artillerie Lourde | (Classics) |
| # 7 | Mahalia Jackson | The Essential Mahalia Jackson | How I Got Over | (Metro) |
| # 8 | Don Byas | Savoy Jam Party: The Savoy Sessions | Worried and Blue | (Savoy) |
| Book | Works of Octavia Butler; or an unspecified book about the Territory Bands | |||
| Luxury Item | A large sound system | |||
| Tim Garland
26 Apr Ben Goldberg 01 Mar Lua Hadar 08 Mar | Molly Holm
19 Apr Remy Le Boeuf 15 Mar Stephanie Nakasian 18 Jan | Marlena Shaw
29 Mar Ben Sidran 12 Apr |