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Lance Carter (musician)

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Occupation(s)
  
Musician

Instruments
  
drums


Name
  
Lance Carter

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Born
  
May 11, 1955 New Brunswick, NJ, U.S. (
1955-05-11
)

Died
  
November 1, 2006(2006-11-01) (aged 51)

Genres
  
Avant-garde jazz, free jazz, jazz fusion

Associated acts
  
Sonny Sharrock Band

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Lance Carter (May 11, 1955 – November 1, 2006) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist. A musician for more than 30 years, he is recognized for his work with Grammy Award-winning artist Cassandra Wilson and as a long-time collaborator of Sonny Sharrock, with whom he recorded the theme song to the Cartoon Network series Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

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Biography

Born in New Brunswick, NJ, Carter graduated in 1974 from Highland Park High School and began attending the Berklee College of Music, where he studied percussion. In 1976, he returned to New Jersey to play with the dance band Network. He died in November 2006 from primary systemic amyloidosis, an incurable bone marrow disease.

Partial discography

  • Live at the Bowery Poetry Project (2007) with Bill Laswell and Robert Musso

    • With Sonny Sharrock

  • Highlife (Enemy, 1990)
  • Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Cartoon Network, 1994)

    • With Cassandra Wilson

  • Blue Light 'til Dawn (Blue Note, 1993)

    • References

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