James Carter - Present Tense (2008)

by Pico

Ken Burns' epic PBS documentary on jazz spent nearly all its time on the history up to 1960 and little afterwards. The implication was that jazz stopped becoming revolutionary and more evolutionary after Ornette Coleman ushered in the "new thing" at the beginning of the sixties. Thus, there was little time spent on notable jazz musicians of today. One of the few who got the spotlight, however, was James Carter.

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