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.infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard plainlist"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de; font-size: 125%;"><div class="fn">James Carter</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Carter.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="James Carter, Bad Ischl 2006"><img alt="James Carter, Bad Ischl 2006" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/James_Carter.jpg/220px-James_Carter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="410" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/James_Carter.jpg/330px-James_Carter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/James_Carter.jpg/440px-James_Carter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="2217" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">James Carter, Bad Ischl 2006</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1969-01-03</span>) </span>January 3, 1969<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 56)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit, Michigan">Detroit, Michigan</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Musician</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument(s)</th><td class="infobox-data note"><a href="/wiki/Bass_clarinet" title="Bass clarinet">Bass clarinet</a><br />Saxophones<br />Flutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/DIW_Records" title="DIW Records">DIW</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Half_Note_Records" title="Half Note Records">Half Note</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jamescarterlive.com/">jamescarterlive.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg/220px-James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg/330px-James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg/440px-James_Carter_Newport_Jazz_Festival.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2832" data-file-height="4256" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p><b>James Carter</b> (born January 3, 1969) is an American <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> musician widely recognized for his technical virtuosity on <a href="/wiki/Saxophones" class="mw-redirect" title="Saxophones">saxophones</a> and a variety of <a href="/wiki/Woodwinds" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodwinds">woodwinds</a>. He is the cousin of noted jazz violinist <a href="/wiki/Regina_Carter" title="Regina Carter">Regina Carter</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Carter_(musician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carter was born in <a href="/wiki/Detroit,_Michigan" class="mw-redirect" title="Detroit, Michigan">Detroit, Michigan</a>, and learned to play under the tutelage of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Washington,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Washington, Sr.">Donald Washington</a>, becoming a member of his youth jazz ensemble Bird-Trane-Sco-NOW!! As a young man, Carter attended <a href="/wiki/Blue_Lake_Fine_Arts_Camp" title="Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp">Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp</a>, becoming the youngest faculty member at the camp. He first toured Scandinavia with the International Jazz Band in 1985 at the age of 16. </p><p>On May 31, 1988, at the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts" title="Detroit Institute of Arts">Detroit Institute of Arts</a> (DIA), Carter was a last-minute addition for guest artist <a href="/wiki/Lester_Bowie" title="Lester Bowie">Lester Bowie</a>, which turned into an invitation to play with his new quintet (forerunner of his New York Organ Ensemble) in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> that following November at the now defunct Carlos 1 jazz club. This was pivotal in Carter's career, putting him in musical contact with the world, and he moved to New York two years later. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the late 1980s, focusing on saxophones, flute and clarinets. </p><p>In 1996, he took part in <a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a>'s film <i><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_(film)" title="Kansas City (film)">Kansas City</a></i>, where he played <a href="/wiki/Ben_Webster" title="Ben Webster">Ben Webster</a> alongside several other contemporary jazz musicians playing the roles of players from the 1930s, including <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Redman" title="Joshua Redman">Joshua Redman</a> as <a href="/wiki/Lester_Young" title="Lester Young">Lester Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Craig_Handy" title="Craig Handy">Craig Handy</a> as <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geri_Allen" title="Geri Allen">Geri Allen</a> as <a href="/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams" title="Mary Lou Williams">Mary Lou Williams</a>. "Seldom Seen" 's fictional "Hey Hey Club" set the stage for several jam sessions caught on film in real time and included on a soundtrack produced by <a href="/wiki/Hal_Willner" title="Hal Willner">Hal Willner</a> and trumpeter <a href="/wiki/Steven_Bernstein_(musician)" title="Steven Bernstein (musician)">Steven Bernstein</a>. </p><p>Carter embraces all elements of jazz history, from <a href="/wiki/Dixieland" class="mw-redirect" title="Dixieland">dixieland</a> to <a href="/wiki/Jazz_fusion" title="Jazz fusion">fusion</a> to <a href="/wiki/Free_jazz" title="Free jazz">free jazz</a>, and was one of the few prominent players of his generation to do so, participating in a number of projects in all these styles, and incorporating these different influences in the compositions and soloing on his own albums. </p><p>On his album <i><a href="/wiki/Chasin%27_the_Gypsy" title="Chasin' the Gypsy">Chasin' the Gypsy</a></i> (2000), he recorded with his cousin <a href="/wiki/Regina_Carter" title="Regina Carter">Regina Carter</a>. </p><p>Carter has won <i><a href="/wiki/DownBeat" title="DownBeat">DownBeat</a></i> magazine's Critics and Readers Choice award for baritone saxophone several years in a row. He has performed, toured and played on albums with Lester Bowie, <a href="/wiki/Julius_Hemphill" title="Julius Hemphill">Julius Hemphill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lowe" title="Frank Lowe">Frank Lowe & the Saxemble</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Battle" title="Kathleen Battle">Kathleen Battle</a>, the <a href="/wiki/World_Saxophone_Quartet" title="World Saxophone Quartet">World Saxophone Quartet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Chestnut" title="Cyrus Chestnut">Cyrus Chestnut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis" title="Wynton Marsalis">Wynton Marsalis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dee_Dee_Bridgewater" title="Dee Dee Bridgewater">Dee Dee Bridgewater</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Mingus</a> Big Band.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Carter is an authority on vintage saxophones, and he owns an extensive collection of such instruments,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including one formerly played by <a href="/wiki/Don_Byas" title="Don Byas">Don Byas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Chandler2014_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chandler2014-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Carter_(musician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1991: <i>Tough Young Tenors: Alone Together</i></li> <li>1994: <i><a href="/wiki/JC_on_the_Set" title="JC on the Set">JC on the Set</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/DIW_Records" title="DIW Records">DIW</a>)</li> <li>1995: <i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_Classics" title="Jurassic Classics">Jurassic Classics</a></i> (DIW)</li> <li>1995: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Real_Quiet_Storm" title="The Real Quiet Storm">The Real Quiet Storm</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Records" title="Atlantic Records">Atlantic</a>)</li> <li>1995: <i>Duets</i> (Atlantic) with <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Chestnut" title="Cyrus Chestnut">Cyrus Chestnut</a> [promotional CD]</li> <li>1996: <i><a href="/wiki/Conversin%27_with_the_Elders" title="Conversin' with the Elders">Conversin' with the Elders</a></i> (Atlantic)</li> <li>1998: <i><a href="/wiki/In_Carterian_Fashion" title="In Carterian Fashion">In Carterian Fashion</a></i> (Atlantic)</li> <li>2000: <i><a href="/wiki/Chasin%27_the_Gypsy" title="Chasin' the Gypsy">Chasin' the Gypsy</a></i> (Atlantic)</li> <li>2000: <i><a href="/wiki/Layin%27_in_the_Cut_(James_Carter_album)" title="Layin' in the Cut (James Carter album)">Layin' in the Cut</a></i> (Atlantic)</li> <li>2003: <i><a href="/wiki/Gardenias_for_Lady_Day" title="Gardenias for Lady Day">Gardenias for Lady Day</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Columbia_Records" title="Columbia Records">Columbia</a>)</li> <li>2004: <i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Baker%27s_Keyboard_Lounge" title="Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge">Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Bros. Records">Warner Bros.</a>) - recorded 2001</li> <li>2005: <i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_Nowhere_(James_Carter_album)" title="Out of Nowhere (James Carter album)">Out of Nowhere</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Half_Note_Records" title="Half Note Records">Half Note</a>)</li> <li>2005: <i><a href="/wiki/Gold_Sounds" title="Gold Sounds">Gold Sounds</a></i> (Brown Brothers)</li> <li>2008: <i><a href="/wiki/Present_Tense_(James_Carter_album)" title="Present Tense (James Carter album)">Present Tense</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/EmArcy_Records" title="EmArcy Records">EmArcy</a>)</li> <li>2009: <i><a href="/wiki/Heaven_on_Earth_(James_Carter_album)" title="Heaven on Earth (James Carter album)">Heaven on Earth</a></i> (Half Note)</li> <li>2009: <i>Skratyology</i> (Stotbrock) with De Nazaten</li> <li>2011: <i><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Rhapsody" title="Caribbean Rhapsody">Caribbean Rhapsody</a></i> (EmArcy)</li> <li>2011: <i><a href="/wiki/At_the_Crossroads_(album)" title="At the Crossroads (album)">At the Crossroads</a></i> (EmArcy)</li> <li>2019: <i>Live From Newport Jazz</i> (Blue Note)</li> <li>2023: <i>Un</i> (JMI Recordings)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_sideman">As sideman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Carter_(musician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As sideman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Karrin_Allyson" title="Karrin Allyson">Karrin Allyson</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane</i> (<a href="/wiki/Concord_Jazz" title="Concord Jazz">Concord Jazz</a>, 2001)</li></ul> <p><b>With the <a href="/wiki/Art_Ensemble_of_Chicago" title="Art Ensemble of Chicago">Art Ensemble of Chicago</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Salutes_the_Chicago_Blues_Tradition" title="Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition">Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/AECO_Records" title="AECO Records">AECO</a>, 1993)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Baker" title="Ginger Baker">Ginger Baker</a> and the DGQ20</b> </p> <ul><li><i>Coward of the County</i> (Atlantic, 1999)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Battle" title="Kathleen Battle">Kathleen Battle</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>So Many Stars</i> (Sony Classical, 1995)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Hamiet_Bluiett" title="Hamiet Bluiett">Hamiet Bluiett</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Libation for the Baritone Saxophone Nation</i> (<a href="/wiki/Justin_Time_Records" title="Justin Time Records">Justin Time</a>, 1998)</li> <li><i>Bluiett Baritone Saxophone Group Live at the Knitting Factory</i> (<a href="/wiki/Knitting_Factory" title="Knitting Factory">Knitting Factory</a>, 1998)</li></ul> <p><b>with <a href="/wiki/Lester_Bowie" title="Lester Bowie">Lester Bowie</a>'s New York Organ Ensemble</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Organizer_(album)" title="The Organizer (album)">The Organizer</a></i> (DIW, 1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Funky_T._Cool_T." title="Funky T. Cool T.">Funky T. Cool T.</a></i> (DIW, 1992)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Dee_Dee_Bridgewater" title="Dee Dee Bridgewater">Dee Dee Bridgewater</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Eleanora_Fagan_(1915-1959):_To_Billie_with_Love_from_Dee_Dee_Bridgewater" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater">Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee Bridgewater</a></i> (EmArcy, 2010)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Regina_Carter" title="Regina Carter">Regina Carter</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Motor City Moments</i> (Verve, 2000)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Chestnut" title="Cyrus Chestnut">Cyrus Chestnut</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Cyrus Chestnut</i> (Atlantic, 1998)</li></ul> <p><i>With <a href="/wiki/Jayne_Cortez" title="Jayne Cortez">Jayne Cortez</a> & The Firespitters'</i> </p> <ul><li><i>Cheerful & Optimistic</i> (Bola Press, 1994)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Benny_Golson" title="Benny Golson">Benny Golson</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tenor_Legacy_(Benny_Golson_album)" title="Tenor Legacy (Benny Golson album)">Tenor Legacy</a></i> (Arkadia Jazz, 1996)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Herbie_Hancock" title="Herbie Hancock">Herbie Hancock</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Gershwin%27s_World" title="Gershwin's World">Gershwin's World</a></i> (Verve, 1998)</li></ul> <p><b>With the <a href="/wiki/Julius_Hemphill" title="Julius Hemphill">Julius Hemphill</a> Sextet</b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fat_Man_and_the_Hard_Blues" title="Fat Man and the Hard Blues">Fat Man and the Hard Blues</a></i> (Black Saint, 1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Five_Chord_Stud" title="Five Chord Stud">Five Chord Stud</a></i> (Black Saint, 1994)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/D._D._Jackson" title="D. D. Jackson">D. D. Jackson</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Paired Down Volume One</i> (Justin Time, 1997)</li> <li><i>Anthem</i> (RCA Victor, 2000)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Shannon_Jackson" title="Ronald Shannon Jackson">Ronald Shannon Jackson</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>What Spirit Say</i> (DIW, 1994)</li> <li><i>Live in Warsaw</i> (Knit Classics, 1994 [1999])</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis" title="Wynton Marsalis">Wynton Marsalis</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blood_on_the_Fields" title="Blood on the Fields">Blood on the Fields</a></i> (Columbia, 1995)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Christian_McBride" title="Christian McBride">Christian McBride</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/SciFi_(Christian_McBride_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="SciFi (Christian McBride album)">SciFi</a></i> (Verve, 2000)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Liz_McComb" title="Liz McComb">Liz McComb</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Brassland</i> (GVE/LMC, 2013)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Miller" title="Marcus Miller">Marcus Miller</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/M%C2%B2_(album)" title="M² (album)">M²</a></i> (Telarc, 2001)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Junko_Onishi_(musician)" title="Junko Onishi (musician)">Junco Onishi</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Baroque_(Junko_Onishi_album)" title="Baroque (Junko Onishi album)">Baroque</a></i> (Verve, 2010)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Peyroux" title="Madeleine Peyroux">Madeleine Peyroux</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dreamland_(Madeleine_Peyroux_album)" title="Dreamland (Madeleine Peyroux album)">Dreamland</a></i> (Atlantic, 1996)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Odean_Pope" title="Odean Pope">Odean Pope</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Odeans List</i> (In+Out, 2009)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Steve_Turre" title="Steve Turre">Steve Turre</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>TNT (Trombone-N-Tenor)</i> (Telarc, 2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Spirits_Up_Above" title="The Spirits Up Above">The Spirits Up Above</a></i> (HighNote, 2004)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Roseanna_Vitro" title="Roseanna Vitro">Roseanna Vitro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenny_Werner" title="Kenny Werner">Kenny Werner</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Delirium_Blues_Project:_Serve_or_Suffer" title="The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer">The Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer</a></i> (Half Note, 2008)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Whitaker" title="Rodney Whitaker">Rodney Whitaker</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i>Children of the Light</i> (DIW, 1996)</li> <li><i>Hidden Kingdom</i> (DIW, 1997)</li></ul> <p><b>With the <a href="/wiki/World_Saxophone_Quartet" title="World Saxophone Quartet">World Saxophone Quartet</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Yes_We_Can_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yes We Can (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Yes We Can</a></i> (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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October 28, 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Jamescarterlive.com&rft.atitle=Biography&rft.date=2010-10-28&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fjamescarterlive.com%2Fbiography&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Carter+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160414163439/https://jazztimes.com/articles/20467-james-carter-blows-through-saxophone-history">"Stern, Chip "Jazz Instruments: James Carter blows through saxophone history", <i>Jazz Times</i> (June 2000)"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jazztimes.com/articles/20467-james-carter-blows-through-saxophone-history">the original</a> on 2016-04-14.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Stern%2C+Chip+%22Jazz+Instruments%3A+James+Carter+blows+through+saxophone+history%22%2C+Jazz+Times+%28June+2000%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fjazztimes.com%2Farticles%2F20467-james-carter-blows-through-saxophone-history&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJames+Carter+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Chandler2014-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Chandler2014_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChip_Chandler2014" class="citation web cs1">Chip Chandler (2014-01-15). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://amarillo.com/entertainment/get-out-music/2014-01-15/musician-long-term-love-affair-sax">"Musician in long-term love affair with sax"</a>. <i>Amarillo Globe-News</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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otherwise.</i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/JC_on_the_Set" title="JC on the Set">JC on the Set</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_Classics" title="Jurassic Classics">Jurassic Classics</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Real_Quiet_Storm" title="The Real Quiet Storm">The Real Quiet Storm</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conversin%27_with_the_Elders" title="Conversin' with the Elders">Conversin' with the Elders</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Carterian_Fashion" title="In Carterian Fashion">In Carterian Fashion</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chasin%27_the_Gypsy" title="Chasin' the Gypsy">Chasin' the Gypsy</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Layin%27_in_the_Cut_(James_Carter_album)" title="Layin' in the Cut (James Carter 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(album)">W.S.Q.</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Revue_(album)" title="Revue (album)">Revue</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/World_Saxophone_Quartet:_Plays_Duke_Ellington" title="World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington">World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dances_and_Ballads" title="Dances and Ballads">Dances and Ballads</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rhythm_and_Blues_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Rhythm and Blues (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Rhythm and Blues</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphosis_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Metamorphosis (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Metamorphosis</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Breath_of_Life_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Breath of Life (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Breath of Life</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moving_Right_Along" title="Moving Right Along">Moving Right Along</a></i> 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Point_of_No_Return_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Point of No Return (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Point of No Return</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_in_Zurich_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Live in Zurich (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Live in Zurich</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music" title="Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music">Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Steppenwolf_(World_Saxophone_Quartet_album)" title="Steppenwolf (World Saxophone Quartet album)">Steppenwolf</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yes_We_Can_(album)" title="Yes We Can (album)">Yes We Can</a></i> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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