Kent Carter String Trio

Kent Carter String Trio: The Willisau Suites

by Clifford Allen
October 5, 2004

To hear bassist Kent Carter on this '84 recording (augmented with two '97 tracks) is to hear the bassist in an entirely different context than anything his work with Steve Lacy and Paul Bley would belie. Always an artist with a penchant for strengthening an ensemble and its collective voice, Carter has comprised his ostensibly “solo" work of exercises and experiments documenting his search for a unified string conception in a group context. The use of overdubbed parts on everything ...