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American jazz musician
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Male
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Birth:
11 May 1955(New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA)
Death:
1 November 2006
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Education:
Berklee College of Music
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.
Biography
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Carter graduated in 1973 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)