The final night of writer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter’s two-night residency will feature two sets: the first including Carter with Indigo Street, John Bonhannon, Pete Drungle, Gary Heidt, and Justin Veloso, and the second with Atiba N. Weabena, Aquah Tcherbu, Motoki Mihara, Nkosi Nkululeko, and Federico Ughi.
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter (b. 1945, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania) is both a writer and a musician, and plays alto and tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, clarinet and piano. Since coming to New York in 1970, he has sought out musicians and situations that encourage free expression. When he first came to the city he played in soul bands as well as avant-garde jazz groups. He has always tried to transcend genre boundaries (Hip-Hop, R&B, DJ, classical (both traditional and avant-garde), world music (both traditional and contemporary), Jazzoetry, Abstract, Concrete, Noise, Punk, Hardcore Punk, Electronic (of all sorts), Commercial, Non-commercial, Professional, Non-professional) and still finds it to be as daunting a challenge as ever. Nonetheless, at the same time he remains undaunted in the face of this challenge in part because all through the years he has always been recharged and renewed by the energy that emanates from and still pours into his life and into New York, particularly in the form of tremendously motivated, devoted, and able musicians who are drawn into the cosmic cauldron that is NYC from all over the world. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, visual artist Marilyn Sontag.
Set 1:
Indigo Street (guitar)
John Bohannon (electronics)
Pete Drungle (piano, keyboard)
Gary Heidt (bass, guitar)
Justin Veloso (drums)
Daniel Carter (alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute, trumpet)
Set 2:
Atiba N. Kwabena (vocals, woodwinds and percussions)
Aquah Tcherbu (balaphone and percussions, also plays vibes and marimba)
Motoki Mihara (bass)
Nkosi Nkululeko (percussion)
Federico Ughi (drums)
Daniel Carter (alto, tenor, and soprano, saxophones, clarinet, flute, trumpet)
Gary Heidt sang with Devil Donkey on the 80's Houston hardcore scene, then co-founded the lo-fi collective Mammals of Zod ("masterpiece"–Village Voice). In the 90's in New York he gigged frequently with Carter and Sabir Mateen, and co-founded 67-year performance project Lovesphere. Co-author of The Defenestration Trilogy of operas, his poetry recently appeared in Fence. He sings with Fist of Kindness.
Federico Ughi is a drummer based in New York. Born in Rome, Italy in 1972 he relocated to London at age 21 to play music, from there moving to New York in 1999 again to play music. He has been based in Brooklyn, NY ever since. Federico plays drums, writes songs and lyrics and plays with people he likes. He has performed or recorded with Federico Ughi Duets, Federico Ughi Options Quintet, Daniel Carter, William Parker, Darius Jones, Eri Yamamoto, The Cinematic Orchestra, Bloody Riot, Leila Adu, the groups Testastella and WAKE UP! among others.