Singular with Daniel Carter
Personnel
Daniel Carter - alto and tenor saxophones
Bb clarinet, flute, and trumpet
Chris Welcome - guitar
Shayna Dulberger - bass
John McLellan - drums
About
This recording represents the third meeting between veteran multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Carter, and the trio of Chris Welcome, Shayna Dulberger, and John McLellan. Carter is best known as a member of the collective groups Other Dimensions in Music and Test. He is a mainstay of the New York Avant-Garde scene, and has played at concerts and festivals around the world. Welcome, Dulberger, and McLellan released their first record as a trio, “Wound, Unwound, and Within” in early 2006. As a trio they have performed in New York and the Northeast, and have collaborated with musicians such as Jack Wright, Nate Wooley, Blaise Siwula, and many others.
Reviews
Free Jazz-Stef Blogspot
Chris Welcome, on guitar, Shayna Dulberger on bass and John McLellan on drums have played and recorded before, in quartet and trio settings. For this release, they added avant-garde jazz veteran Daniel Carter on alto and tenor saxophones, Bb clarinet, flute, and trumpet, for a very calm, subdued and almost chamber jazz adventure of free improvisation. The whole focus of the band is on creating soft and gentle musical texture, very down-tempo, very sensitive and almost hesitatingly. The overall effect is one of absolute openness and space, with fragile and intimate sounds, that seem to meet each other uninentionally, surprised at this and moving along, friendly and hand-in-hand. Even the presence of the electric guitar and the drums do not create any volume or substance, they also limit themselves to providing accents, colorings, shadings, yet it moves forward coherently, flowing in the same direction. Daniel Carter changes instrument on every track, adding variety in approach to the tunes. He is far away from the music of Test or of Other Dimensions In Music in terms of overall timbre and effect, yet the deeply emotional and creative approach is also present in this utterly restrained and expressive sober music. Nice! © stef