Regina Carter: Portrait of the Jazz Artist as a Young Woman

In the first part of this two-part podcast with Regina Carter, she discusses her upbringing and musical education in Detroit. Trained in European classical music, she was exposed to wide variety of music and while in high school, she discovered jazz violin and it was life-changing. She talks about the appeal of jazz, her two years in the New England Conservatory of Music, her return to Michigan and transition to jazz violin, her mentors Marcus Belgrave and Marvin Holliday, her time with the all-woman quintet “Straight Ahead,” her move to New York where she played with a broad array of artists from Chucho Valdés to Max Roach to Dolly Parton, the beginning of her solo career and being tapped by Wynton Marsalis to tour with his Pulitzer-Prize winning oratorio Blood on the Fields.  (Next week, we continue our conversation with Regina Carter—we explore her solo career, her collaboration with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron, her receiving the MacArthur Award, her time as a hospice worker and much more!) Let us know what you think about Art Works—email us at artworkspod@arts.gov. And follow us on Apple Podcasts