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Regina Carter's Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort is: Regina Carter, violin; Adam Rogers, guitar; Will Holshouser, accordion; Chris Lightcap, bass; Alvester Garnett, drums & percussion

Detroit may be in the news for its troubles right now, but in jazz circles it's known for producing a long line of brilliant musicians like Regina Carter. Carter's classical training took her to the youth division of the Detroit Symphony, but by college she was studying with jazz trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, and in the mid-nineties she stepped forward with a series of albums exploring different facets of her musical legacy, from Motor City Moments to Paganini: After A Dream (she played the master's 1743 Guarnerius) to Reverse Thread, which traced the African roots of Black American music. With "Southern Comfort," she recalls her father's past in Alabama and the music of her own childhood. SFJazz calls Carter's violin "a passport to unexpected realms, a Rosetta stone that unlocks the door to a myriad of cultures and worlds." We're glad to be partnering with Center Arts on that journey.

"With the passing of Stephane Grappelli, the jazz violin torch has been passed to this remarkable spirit from Detroit."
--Willard Jenkins, Jazz Times