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Daniel Carter is an American free jazz musician who plays saxophone, trumpet, and flute.^[1]

Career

Carter has recorded and performed with many distinguished musicians, including William Parker, Federico Ughi, DJ Logic, The Negatones, Thurston Moore, Yo La Tengo, Soul-Junk, Anne Waldman, Cooper-Moore, Matthew Shipp and scientist/musician Matthew Putman among others. He is a member of the cooperative free jazz groups Test, Other Dimensions In Music, odon, Ghost Moth and Dissipated Face.^[2]

In 2007 the Pendu Sound compilation album Getting rid of the glue  with Excepter and Daniel Carter was listed as number 70 in Thurston Moore's "Top 80 of 2006".^[3] In 2015 the New York Forward Festival was created to celebrate Carter's 70th birthday.

Discography

As co-leader

• Switched-On Irresponsibility with Post Prandials (Artichoke & Tristero, 1995)
• High Wire with Post Prandials (Artichoke & Tristero, 1996)
• Tenor Rising Drums Expanding with Tenor Rising Drums Expanding (Sound@One, 1996)
• Resonance with Randall Colbourne (Zaabway Music, 1997)
• Breathing Together (Freedom, 1997)
• Third World War with Tenor Rising Drums Expanding (Sound@One, 1998)
• Meditations on Unity (Sublingual, 2000)
• Astonishment with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2001)
• Principle Hope with Peter Kowald (Sublingual, 2002)
• Language with Gregg Keplinger (Origin, 2002)
• Amusement Park with Freedomland (Rent Control, 2002)
• Real Time Messengers with Transcendentalists (CIMP, 2002)
• Luminescence with Reuben Radding (AUM Fidelity, 2003)
• Chinatown with Blumenkranz & Zubek (Not Two, 2003)
• Mysterium with Morgan Craft, Eric Eigner (Eavesdrop 2004)
• Not Out for Anywhere with Gregg Keplinger, Reuben Radding (Sol Disk, 2004)
• Matt Lavelle and Daniel Carter (Matt Lavelle 2004)
• Concrete Science with Steve Swell (577 Records, 2004)
• Yia Yia's Song with Freedomland (Rent Control, 2004)
• Not On Earth... in Your Soul! with Sabir Mateen (Qbico, 2005)
• The Dream with William Parker (577 Records, 2006)
• Singular (Empty Room Music, 2006)
• Live at Tower Records with Matt Lavelle (Atnimara, 2006)
• Ghost Moth Live! with Ghost Moth (Pendu Sound, 2007)
• Mountain Path with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2007)
• God's Faithless Bride (Pilate Navigator, 2007)
• Babylon with Harmonize Most High (Ruby Red, 2008)
• Shyunbun (No Hi, 2008)
• Nivesana (Epoch Music, 2008)
• The Gowanus Recordings with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2009)
• The Perfect Blue with Federico Ughi (Not Two, 2010)
• Navajo Sunrise with William Parker, Federico Ughi (Rudi 2013)
• Say Hello to Anyone I Know with Daniel Levin (Fast Speaking Music, 2014)
• Extra Room with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2015)
• Extra Room Vol. 2 with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2015)
• So Long Farewell Repair with George Lyle (Iorram, 2016)
• Life Station with Federico Ughi (577 Records, 2016)
• Vol. 1 Erie Live! with Watson Jennison (577 Records, 2017)
• Vol. 2 Toronto Live! with Watson Jennison (577 Records, 2017)
• Vol. 3 Rochester Live! with Watson Jennison (577 Records, 2017)
• Telepathic Alliances with Patrick Holmes (577 Records, 2017)
• Telepatia Liquida with Patrick Holmes (577 Records, 2018)
• Seraphic Light with William Parker, Matthew Shipp (AUM Fidelity, 2018)
• Live Constructions with Hilliard Greene (Slam, 2018)
• New York United with Tobias Wilner (577 Records, 2019)
• Electric Telepathy Vol. 1 with Patrick Holmes (577 Records, 2019)
• Radical Invisibility with Stelios Mihas (577 Records, 2019)
• Whoadie with Patrick Holmes (577 Records, 2020)
• Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 with Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver (577 Records, 2020)

With Other Dimensions in Music

• Other Dimensions In Music (Silkheart, 1990)
• Now! (AUM Fidelity, 1998)
• Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time (AUM Fidelity, 2002)
• Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2007)
• Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011)

With Test

• Ahead! (Eremite, 1998)
• Test (AUM Fidelity, 1999)
• Live (Eremite, 2000)
• Always Coming from the Love Side (Eremite, 2016)

As sideman

With William Parker

• Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace (Centering, 1980)
• Painter's Spring (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
• Fractured Dimensions (FMP 2003)
• Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & the Blinking of the Ear (Centering, 2018)

With Matthew Shipp

• Strata (hatOLOGY, 1998)
• Nu Bop (Thirsty Ear, 2002)
• Cosmic Suite (Not Two, 2008)
• Nu Bop Live (Rai Trade, 2009)
• Not Bound (For Tune, 2017)

With others

• Ron Anderson, Anything Is Possible (Megaphone/Amanita 2000)
• Antipop Consortium, Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp (Thirsty Ear, 2003)
• Jimmy Bennington, One More Beautiful Ballad (CIMP, 2013)
• Guillermo E. Brown, Soul at the Hands of the Machine (Thirsty Ear, 2002)
• Invitation, The King’s Waltz (Konnex, 2006)
• Candiria, Invaders (Giant 2014)
• Castanets, First Light's Freeze (Asthmatic Kitty, 2005)
• Loren Mazzacane Connors, The Departing of a Dream, Vol. VII^[4]
• Ted Daniel, In the Beginning (Altura Music, 1997)
• Ted Daniel, Innerconnection (NoBusiness, 2014)
• Whit Dickey, Emergence (Not Two, 2009)
• DJ Logic, Project Logic (Ropeadope, 1999)
• Hamid Drake, Bindu (RogueArt, 2005)
• El-P, High Water (Thirsty Ear, 2004)
• Frode Gjerstad, Behind the White Fences (Nolabel, 2006)
• David Grubbs, The Spectrum Between (Drag City, 2000)
• Gunter Hampel, Angel (Birth, 1972)
• Gunter Hampel, The Essence in the Nowness of Reality (Birth, 2011)
• Bob Moses, Bittersuite in the Ozone (Mozown, 1975)
• Yoko Ono, Between My Head and the Sky (Chimera Music, 2009)
• Bradford Reed, What's Good for the Goose Is Good (Youngbloods, 2019)
• Alan Silva, H.Con.Res.57/Treasure Box (Eremite, 2003)
• Yo La Tengo, Nuclear War (Matador, 2002)
• Yo La Tengo, Summer Sun (Matador, 2003)
• Luther Thomas, Outcry (Nolabel, 2004)
• Soul-Junk, 1958 Sounds Are Active (Sounds Familyre, 2003)
• Spring Heel Jack, Masses (Thirsty Ear, 2001)
• Kayos Theory, Experiments of Truth (Monsoon-Music, 2017)^[5]

References

External links

• Discography
• A 2001 Interview: [1]
• Discussing anarchism, etc.[2]
• MantraMatic [3]