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Present Tense is an album by saxophonist James Carter released on the EmArcy label in 2008. This may be Carter's finest album because of its insistence on the balance between restraint and adventure". In JazzTimes David R. Adler called the album "an unselfconscious mix of influences, more three-dimensional than his various tribute discs and the recent organ-trio blowouts". On All About Jazz Greg Camphire noted "This solid, straight-ahead outing sounds both "old-timey".

Present Tense was born out of two very specific desires. First, saxophonist James Carter wanted a precise recorded portrait of where he was at as a musician, aesthetically and technically. Second was producer Michael Cuscuna's dead-on assertion that Carter, for all his instrumental and aesthetic virtuosity, had never been represented well on tape. Carter's inability to resist overdoing it on virtually everything he records (ten-minute solos in standards, et. makes that point inarguable

Written-By – James Carter (3) (tracks: 2, 4, 9). Notes. Recorded on September 21-23, 2007 at Avatar Studios, New York City Mastered at Sony Studios, New York City This release seems very similar to James Carter (3) - Present Tense except for the bar code. Other Versions (4 of 4) View All. Cat.

James Carter, Present Tense. The Detroit saxophonist James Carter was one of many 1990s jazz newcomers who thought revisiting the tradition was a better idea than inventing a music nobody had heard of before

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Present Tense is an album by saxophonist James Carter released on the EmArcy label in 2008 James carter interview 2 present tense Reception Track listing Pe. .Released May 20, 2008 Length 63:16 Artist James Carter Producer Michael Cuscuna Genre Jazz. Recorded September 21–23, 2007 Present Tense (2008) Heaven on Earth (2009) Release date 20 May 2008 Label Universal Music LLC. Studio Avatar Studios, New York City Similar James Carter albums, Jazz albums.

Label: Universal Music Group International. With this 2008 release, saxophonist James Carter backs away from doing his customary concept album to showcase the full spectrum of his talents. Carter is a master of post-bop but he is also a keen student of the pre-swing era, a modern populist and a no-holds barred experimenter. While most of the cuts on Present Tense showcase different sides of Carter, "Bro. Dolphy" proves the he often brings these varying sides together with surprising ease

Present Tense (disambiguation). Redirected from Present tense (disambiguation)). The present tense is a grammatical tense. Present Tense may also refer to: Present Tense (band), a Las Vegas band. Present Tense (Wild Beasts album), album by Wild Beasts (2014). Present Tense (Sagittarius album), the first album by the group Sagittarius (1968). Present Tense, an album by the American rock band Shoes (American band) (1979). Present Tense, album by Lenny White 1995.

Present Tense is the first Sagittarius album, released in 1968 by Columbia Records. Though the record was basically a Gary Usher solo project, he enlisted many top LA session musicians, and heavily utilized Curt Boettcher as a songwriter, musician, vocalist, and producer (even going so far as to include two tracks that Boettcher had produced on his own as the leader of the group The Ballroom)