Classics and all that jazz

When she played the wrong note during the concert finale, her piano teacher suggested that violin might be better suited for expressing her creativity. She still felt trapped by the rigid frameworks of classical music, and eventually she let herself be tempted away by artistic freedom promised by jazz. Regina Carter immediately found her feet in the new environment and rapidly earned a reputation as a visionary improviser. She enriches the jazz traditions with inspirations from Afro-Cuban music, swing, bebop, R&B, pop and the Motown sound straight from her hometown of Detroit. Her search for the ultimate in artistic expression is far from over: on 9 March, at Manggha Museum the violinist is accompanied on her journey into unexplored sounds by AMC Trio from Slovakia. (Bartosz Suchecki, “Karnet”)