Regina Carter

Violinist Regina Carter is a highly original soloist whose sophisticated technique and rich, lush tone took the jazz world by pleasant surprise when she arrived in New York from her native Detroit. And jazz fans weren’t the only people who heard that mercurial quality in her playing: artists as diverse as Faith Evans, Elliot Sharp, and Mary J. Blige have employed her talents on their recordings, as has filmmaker Ken Burns on his soundtrack for The Civil War. Add this to an extremely long list of jazzers that include Tom Harrell, Wynton Marsalis, and Oliver Lake.

With her last album “Reverse Thread” (2010) Regina Carter invites us into a world of hypnotically beautiful African folk melodies.

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