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- Date Released: December 28, 1982
- Genre: Jazz
- Label: Black Saint / CAM
A breakthrough album rooted in the music of tribal Africa
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We Say...
As John Carter’s Dauwhe opens with Luis Peralta’s waterphone, Charles Owens’s furtive soprano saxophone and William Jeffrey’s flickering percussion, the listener is instantaneously transported to another world: tribal Africa, to be precise. A gorgeous, mysterious theme slowly uncurls on clarinet, bass flute, tuba and bass, then turns sunny with a switch to standard flute and the addition of muted cornet. Halfway through, the music springs to life; in a signature Carter device, wind lines stretch at length across the rhythm section’s percolating drive.
The album, issued in 1982, marked a stunning breakthrough for Carter, a Texas-born associate of Ornette Coleman. Working primarily as an alto saxophonist when he moved to Los Angeles in the early ’60s, Carter and cornetist Bobby Bradford issued a series of albums strongly redolent of Coleman’s freebop style.
But Carter, who devoted himself exclusively to clarinet from 1974 onward, had a more expansive vision in mind. Much of his work in the ’80s was devoted to the creation of “Roots and Folklore: Episodes in the Development of American Folk Music,” an astonishing five-part epic tracing the history of black American music. Dauwhe, the opening chapter, conjured African ancestry without any hint of self-conscious exoticism.
Carter made the later episodes of his saga with an all-star band in New York. But this sensually alluring opening chapter, recorded with longtime L.A. associates like flutist James Newton and tuba player Red Callendar, is not to be overlooked.
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05 Total Tracks, 41:30 Total Length
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