The Sit-Down Podcast with James Hurt-James Carter-Study the Music (Ancestral Technology)

Multi-reed & woodwind specialist, instrument repair technical wizard, clinician, student of music, and consummate musician James Carter stops by the Sit-Down to discuss his early origins as the youngest sibling who had a burning desire to perform with his diverse musical family of both soulfully & classically-trained musicians. James' keen ear and expansive musical interests take him on a journey backwards and forwards through the decades of American music before circumstances place him in the cross-hairs of his first encounter with a family friend's saxophone, private lessons with his musical mentor Donald Washington, early symphonic music training and multi-instrumentalism, auditions which led to his musical experiences at both Blue Lake and Interlochen, performing with Ralph "Buzzy" Jones & Yusef Lateef, touring with Wynton Marsalis (while in high school) & Lester Bowie  (New York City), Kid Dynamite-Lodewijk Rudolf Arthur Parisius (and the Dixieland Manifesto), Detroit's Afro-futurists synthesists "The Electrifying Mojo",  William "The Wiz" Tandy, and house to Techno.  Shoutouts to all the all my drumline 'Whallas', aka The 'Rat Patrol', from the 'D' who came down to the "Hill" (TSU) in Nashville, to go forth and serve-change the world. This episode is dedicated to all the Michiganians on both branches of my family tree in  Detroit, Big Rapids, Grand Rapids, Greenwood, and to the legacy of Afro-Futurist, Educator (Ferris State University), Organic Chemist, youth leader, and devoted husband (Uncle) Dr. Charles Raymond Hurt (1932-2017) who pioneered research for arthritic & metabolic diseases in addition to his work with Goodard Space Flight Center and NASA.  Background music composed and performed by James Hurt.

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Chapters

• 3:41 Early childhood & family life
• 17:57 Charles Green, mentorship & 'sax' appeal
• 25:27 Passing the musical aptitude test
• 31:13 Blue Lake Fine Arts camp and meeting Donald Washington
• 45:21 Emotional content, and not "sucking in" as a performer
• 53:48 Count Basie as a big band foundation
• 56:59 Ms Turner, Interlochen, Blue Lake and multi-instrumental expansion
• 1:06:35 Touring with Wynton Marsalis and school-striking a balance
• 1:10:59 The James Carter Trio and meeting Craig Taborn
• 1:20:07 The Detroit connection, legacy musicans, and multi-instrumentalist Ralph Jones
• 1:23:18 Afro-Futurism, House, Techno, Hip-Hop, and eclecticism through The Electrifying Mojo, William "The Wiz" Tandy, DJ Kool Herc
• 1:31:25 Kid Dynamite Lodewijk Rudolf Arthur Parisius and the Surinamese Dixieland Movement
• 1:38:56 Studying the music as ancestral technology through reverse-engineering and other musings