From moonlight ballads to funky outbursts to cerebral post-bop pieces, Detroit-born James Carter manages to pack the entire jazz history into a single set. The world-class saxophonist, who was discovered by Wynton Marsalis at the age of only 17, sparkles with energy and conjures up early jazz, swing, jump blues and the avant-garde with verve and musical exuberance. Deep, funky and endlessly creative is the sound of saxophone virtuoso James Carter. His music corresponds to the worldview of the American: "I have the feeling that music is like life – you can't be blind to other influences, because only through them can an enormous beauty arise." Just like on the album Jurassic Classics, for which he received the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics in 1995. Hardly anyone else can come up with such incredible technical brilliance and individual sound language on various saxophones. In addition, everything with Carter has an incredible ease and focus. He has taken up and perfected an approach that David Murray more or less launched four decades ago – he cultivates complete freedom in dealing with the material inventory. The New York Times praises Carter as "one of the most charismatic and strongest soloists in jazz." At the Nica Jazz Club, he forms his organ trio with Gerald Gibbs on Hammond B3 and Alex White on drums. "At first, Carter's sound seems to distance itself from the audience, but then he envelops the listeners like an anaconda," praises the critic of Time magazine.

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