Artist	Song
James Carter	Lester Leaps In
from Conversin' With the Elders (2010)
James Carter	'Round Midnight
from The Real Quietstorm (2010)
James Carter	Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure
from Present Tense (2003)
James Carter	Down to the River
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
James Carter	Parker's Mood
from Conversin' With the Elders (2010)
James Carter	Deep Throat Blues
from The Real Quietstorm (2010)
James Carter	Layin' In the Cut (feat. Jef Lee Johnson, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & G. Calvin Weston)
from Layin' In the Cut (2009)
James Carter	Chasin' the Gypsy
from Chasin' the Gypsy (2010)
James Carter	In Carterian Fashion
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
James Carter	Bossa J.C.
from Present Tense (2003)
Kansas City All-Stars	Prince of Wails
from KC After Dark - More Music from Robert Altman's Kansas City (1997)
Herbie Hancock	It Ain't Necessarily So
from Gershwin's World (1998)
Christian McBride, Cyro Baptista & Kathleen Battle	Hush (Somebody's Calling My Name)
from So Many Stars (1995)
Christian McBride	Walking On the Moon
from Sci-Fi (2000)
Cyrus Chestnut	Miss Thing (feat. James Carter)
from Cyrus Chestnut (2010)
Flip Phillips	Where or When
from Swing Is the Thing! (2000)
Benny Golson with James Carter	Cry Me a River
from Tenor Legacy (1998)
Césaria Évora	Coragem irmon
from Cabo Verde (1997)
James Carter	Avalon
from Chasin' the Gypsy (2010)
James Carter	You Never told Me That You Care
from The Real Quietstorm (2010)
James Carter	A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
from Gardenias for Lady Day (2003)
James Carter	Motown Mash (feat. Jef Lee Johnson, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & G. Calvin Weston)
from Layin' In the Cut (2009)
James Carter	Soul Street
from Live At Baker's Keyboard Lounge (2005)
James Carter	Frisco Follies
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
Delirium Blues Project	Blue
from Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer (feat. Kenny Werner & Roseanna Vitro) (2008)
Madeleine Peyroux	Walkin' After Midnight
from Dreamland (2005)
James Carter	Strange Fruit
from Gardenias for Lady Day (2003)
James Carter	Freedom Jazz Dance
from Live At Baker's Keyboard Lounge (2005)
Cyrus Chestnut	The Journey (feat. James Carter)
from Cyrus Chestnut (2010)
James Carter	Imari's Lullaby
from Chasin' the Gypsy (2010)
James Carter	I Can't Get Started
from Live At Baker's Keyboard Lounge (2005)
James Carter	Nuages (Clouds)
from Chasin' the Gypsy (2010)
James Carter	Trouble In the World
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
James Carter	More Than You Know
from Gardenias for Lady Day (2003)
Benny Golson with Harold Ashby & James Carter	Lester Leaps In
from Tenor Legacy (1998)
James Carter	Lockjaw's Lament
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
D.D. Jackson, Christian Howes, Richard Bona, Jack DeJohnette & James Carter	Dewey's Groove
from Anthem (2000)
James Carter	Skull Grabbin'
from In Carterian Fashion (2008)
James Carter	Sussa Nita
from Present Tense (2003)
James Carter	GP
from Layin' In the Cut (2009)
Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society	Now's the Time
from Live In Warsaw (1999)
James Carter	I'll Never Be the Same
from Chasin' the Gypsy (2010)
Saxemble	In Walked J.C.
from Saxemble (2005)
Tough Young Tenors	The Eternal Triangle
from Alone Together (2005)
Delirium Blues Project	Goodnight Nelda Grebe, the Telephone Company Has Cut Us Off
from Delirium Blues Project: Serve or Suffer (feat. Kenny Werner & Roseanna Vitro) (2008)

Comment:

At a time when most people are worried about passing Algebra or getting the car for a Friday night date, saxman James Carter was wowing audiences with wise-beyond-his-years — all 17 of them! — performances supporting Wynton Marsalis. He's hovering around the big 4-0 now, but Carter continues to astound, displaying an almost chameleon-like command of his instrument, morphing his style to suit the music without ever submerging his voice. On albums like [i]Jurassic Classics[/i], [i]Chasin' the Gypsy[/i], and [i]Gardenias for Lady Day[/i], he's demonstrated a bone-deep affection for standards and jazz history, but he's not so deeply rooted in the past that it prevents him from digging into a funk groove opposite a burnin' Hammond B-3 organ. Throughout, he's maintained a level of musicianship and faith with the music that puts him at the head of his class, so much so that he's won the [i]DownBeat[/i] critics' choice award for baritone sax three years in a row.

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