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Carter's multihorn mastery is always dazzling, whether he's playing jazz funk, Pavement covers or the traditional numbers he and his sextet perform here. The highlights are "Hymn of the Orient," a Clifford Brown fave illuminated with blasts of free-form baritone sax, and "Bro. Dolphy," creamy bass...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Chasin' The Gypsy

2000

Layin' In The Cut

2000

In Carterian Fashion

1998

Conversin' With The Elders

1996

JC on the Set

1993

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It's too late for anyone to return jazz to the golden age of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, but if anyone could have in the last decade, it would have been James Carter. Taken as a group, it's now clear that the one and only purpose of jazz saxophonist James Carter's first three albums is to impress the hell out of the listener. He plays sax in four weight divisions, plus bass clarinet and bass...

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