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  • Wynton Marsalis, Regina Carter on JazzSet

    March 16, 2012. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: Carlos Henriques, Jazz Alive, Regina Carter, wynton marsalis, Yacouba Sissoko

    We're heading for spring with a JazzSet from the Newport Jazz Festival, the Fort Adams stage. Tune in for Regina Carter's Reverse Thread and Wynton Marsalis on WBGO 88.3 FM / wbgo.org this Sunday night, March 18, at 6 and Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30.

    To listen now, click over to wbgo.org/jazzset. For a 30-second taste, try this:

    For the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival line-up, visit our WBGO Festival Calendar, here.

    Regina Carter Reverse Thread, Wynton Marsalis 2011Newport Jazz Festival (c) Ayano HisaWyntonMarsalis_2011NewportJazz Festival(c)Ayano Hisa_sm

    © 2012 WBGO

  • Montreal: Regina Carter .. have violin, will travel

    July 1, 2011. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM 2011, Regina Carter

    Often a performer's first stop is the Jazz Festival press room, where they sign THE POSTER.

    Regina Carter's next stop, before her sound check, was at WBGO-in-Montreal. I asked her about the traveling. Regina carries the violin on her back, and Alvester Garnett - her husband and band mate - straps a cymbal case to his. They came up from Newark on a flight with WBGO's Thurston Briscoe.

    Here she plays "Artistiya" from the album Reverse Thread. Regina's dance/momentum is building at the fadeout.

    On Reverse Thread, Carter musically traces the sound of jazz to African folk tunes through the strings of her violin, the percussion, the kora or -- here in Montreal -- the Colombian harp, bass, and the natural-breathing music of the accordion. She talks about the kora --> harp substitution in this clip.

    -- Becca Pulliam

    © 2011 WBGO