StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Violin virtuosity from Regina Carter

Today, it's time for a look at some videos featuring violinist Regina Carter, who will be back in St. Louis to perform starting Wednesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 10 at Jazz St. Louis.

Generally acclaimed as the top jazz violinist of her generation, Carter has performed at major venues around the world, released 10 albums as a leader, and been the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 2006 and the Doris Duke Award in 2018.

The Detroit native has been a regular visitor to St. Louis in recent years, most recently in October 2018 to headline a benefit concert for Community Women Against Hardship at the Sheldon Concert Hall.

Another of her previous gigs, in 2015 at Jazz St. Louis with her "Southern Comfort" band, was previewed here at the time with a Saturday video post and you can check out that post for more background on her.

On this visit, Carter will be playing in a duo with pianist Xavier Davis, who's been part of her band for the last couple of years, starting not long before her Ella Fitzgerald tribute Accentuate The Positive was released in 2017.

Today's collection of recent performances featuring Carter starts with the two of them, along with the rest of Carter's band, in the first clip up above, an audience-shot excerpt from a show they did in April of this year at Stony Brook University in New York.

After the jump, you can see an excerpt from Carter's guest performance with pianist Chucho Valdez in a concert this past June at Prospect Park in Brooklyn NY.

That's followed by a couple of duets with bassist Robert Hurst, "Strung Out" and "R&R," recorded a couple of years ago for NPR's "Night Owl" feature and released in January 2019.

Then in the next clip, Carter dips into an almost jazz-fusion sound on "Lapis Refugii" with the AMC Trio, a Slovak group led by pianist Peter Adamovič.

Last but not least, the final video is an interview of Carter by fellow violinist Christian Howe, recorded in August, 2018.

For more about Regina Carter, read the excerpt about her from Mark Stryker's book Jazz From Detroit published earlier this year, and these two interviews from January 2018 and August 2019.

You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...