Saxophone Great Rocks the Hall

Mark Stryker Detroit News Music Critic—19 October 2002 It is a rare concert in which Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Neeme Jarvi is not the most spontaneous musician on stage. But until this week, Jarvi had never worked with James Carter, the Detroit-born...

James Carter Jazzes DSO Audience

Lawrence B. Johnson Detroit News Music Critic—19 October 2002 The Detroit Symphony Orchestra made a rockin’ return to its home roost Thursday night, unleashing the homegrown gifts of saxophonist James Carter in the world premiere of a concerto that sent the...

James Carter: It’s all music to him


Lawrence B. Johnson Detroit News Music Critic—17 October 2002 James Carter, one of the larger lions of modern-day jazz, raps both hands around a saxophone that only he can see. Practiced fingers fly up and down invisible keys as he vocalizes an explosion of notes....