Regina Carter News

The music on jazz violinist Regina Carter's new CD, "Reverse Thread," comes from "all over the world." Regina Carter, the "genius grant"-winning jazz violinist whose career has already spanned fusion, the avant garde, mainstream jazz, and improvisational versions of Ravel and Debussy performed on a world-famous violin, is up to something new again.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Regina Carter spends a great deal of time making sure her music always is edging in a new direction.

Traveling through thirty-two cities in seventeen states, the group features the nine-time Grammy-nominated and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated violinist Regina Carter; Grammy-winning guitarist Russell Malone; seven-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Kurt Elling; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa; and Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan ...

Holshouser, Bennink and Moore. For the uninitiated it probably sounds like the name of a law firm, but the trio of musicians -- accordionist Will Holshouser , drummer Han Bennink and reedsman Michael Moore -- is on the cutting edge of modern improvisational music.

On Thursday, October 22 at 8pm in the Jewett Auditorium, world-renowned jazz violinist Regina Carter will perform on the Concert Series at Wellesley College.

Welcome to First Set, a rundown of the best live jazz to be heard this weekend across the region, as well as a look at the week ahead.

The Frostburg State University Cultural Event Series Jazz Club welcomes Regina Carter, jazz violinist, who will perform with her quintet on Thursday, Oct.

Saturday night's doings at the Monterey Jazz Festival were a good reminder that you never know exactly what to expect with improvised music.

The 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival presented by Verizon will take place at the Monterey Fairgrounds, September 18 - 20, 2009 with over 500 artists performing on 9 stages for 3 nights and 2 days of the world's best jazz, spread throughout the Festival's 20 acres of magnificent grounds.

An all-female quartet/quintet whose most prominent graduate was violinist Regina Carter, Straight Ahead performed music that ranged from bop to poppish, modern jazz to R&B and fusion.

If you like great jazz music and jazz from the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Lizz Wright, and Regina Carter, you better head down to the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival Sept.

The Tanglewood Jazz Festival brings some of the genre's best-known and classiest musicians to Lenox at the end of every summer.

World-renowned jazz violinist Regina Carter will be hitting the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center as part of her Reverse Thread Tour on August 23.

The vast majority of classically trained violinists tend to follow the classical path throughout their careers.

Detroit has contributed much to music and jazz -- arguably America's greatest art form.

Dear Dave: I recently saw a 'Sex and the City' rerun when Charlotte suffered a miscarriage.

Joshua Coyne isn't like a lot of teenagers you'll meet. Sure, he's got homework that has to be done, and can bristle when his mom reminds him to do this or that, but the music that streams through his head isn't pop or rap.

Regina Carter operates where classical music and jazz overlap, so she turned out to be the perfect guest artist for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's African American Festival Concert.