Django UnchainedDjango Unchained

“Carter’s delivery has the energy to burst the seams of any setting. This performance similarly featured breathtaking cadenzas, unaccompanied torrents of notes and high-pitched squeaks that re-solved peacefully to consonance. the strongest impression was of a tight-knit working band extend-ing the reach and range of a classic formula. As a unit they retain the shuffles, bounce and romance that lie at the heart of organ combo jazz, but add an academician’s grasp of history and a knowing contemporary resonance.” Mike Hobart FINANCIAL TIMES

JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO

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“Tribute albums and tribute bands are often content with summoning up old ghosts.  Saxophonist, James Carter, took a more rewarding approach on his excel-lent CD, CHASIN’ THE GYPSY and he continues that approach with his Organ Trio’s Tribute performances to the music of Django Reinhardt by offering up fresh takes on the music of the French Gypsy guitarist. He does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role.  Carter, whether he’s playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he rein-terprets Reinhardt’s classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. These performances, like the CD do more than invoke Reinhardt’s spirit; they have a life of their own.” Christopher John Farley TIME MAGAZINE

WE’RE NOT CHASIN’ THE GYPSY ANYMORE – HE’S HERE IN THE HOOD! From James: “I personally feel that the music of Django can still speak volumes, even 60 years after his passing!  It’s true that in recent times (in part because of the commemoration of his centennial in 2010) that his music has been played by vast amounts of Hot Club-esque ensembles but with the cohesive power of the James Carter Organ Trio, Django comes to the ‘Hood in a very soulful, funky way’ that lifts the material from its traditional all-string rhythm guitar la pompe and allows the listener to hear Reinhardt from another angle with a new appreciation of what he brought to the jazz world on the other side of the Atlantic...”    Since 2001, I’ve had the privilege of sharing the stage with numerous luminaries of the Gypsy Jazz genre such as: Stochelo Rosenberg & his trio, Bireli Lagrene, Boulou & Elios Ferre(sons of Django’s guitar accom-panist Matelo Ferre), Dorado, Samson & Tchavolo Schmitt and Django’s grandson David Reinhardt to name a few, so I know the tradition to say most certainly that the Organ Trio provides a ‘hood pass’ for Django but you can still hear and feel the tradition!” Some selections of the repertoireImpromptuFleche d’OrTroublant BoleroBabik (Bi-Bop)NuagesDiminushingMabelLa Derniere Bergere

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Django Unchained