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Celebration of Life:

Ronald Carter

Beloved Father, Husband, Education and Musician

July 5th, 1953 - February 24th, 2024

Homegoing service Details

First Baptist Church

508 Apple St. Burlington N.C. 27217

Saturday, March 2nd at 11 am

 
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Rustin in Renaissance

A New Oratorio for Jazz

Orchestra & Voice

From GRAMMY & Tony Award Winner Bryan Carter

March 15 & 16, 2024 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Appel Room”

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Bryan Carter Tour Dates

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NEWS & UPDATE

 

BRYAN CARTER’S “RUSTIN IN RENAISSANCE”

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) welcomes 2024 Grammy Award Winner (Best Musical Theater Album: Some Like It Hot) and recent Tony Award winner Bryan Carter to The Appel Room for his first season concert performance. Garnering additional 2023 wins for Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk, Carter leads his 31-piece ensemble, Jazz at Pride Orchestra, presenting his four-movement meditation on the legacy of singer and activist Bayard Rustin. 

A pivotal figure of the Civil Rights Movement who served as a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin also worked as a vocalist and recording artist. Throughout his storied career, he persevered through unrelenting discrimination as a queer man of color. Carter leads his acclaimed Jazz at Pride Orchestra across different musical eras, exploring the complete lineage of Black American music through the ethos of a jazz musician. Expect an evening of stylistically diverse songs and arrangements featuring a talented roster of musicians who celebrate Rustin’s life and legacy.

Carter’s career focuses on queer advocacy and sharing the stories of people who look and live as he does. Recent projects include A Strange Loop (2022 Tony Award, Best Musical), Some Like It Hot (2024 Grammy Award, Best Musical Theater Album; 2023 Tony Award, Best Orchestrations), his album I Believe that translates his coming out story, and Jazz at Pride, his 501(c)(3) nonprofit and annual concert showcasing queer artists.

The Appel Room is located at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City. For additional information,  jazz.org/rustin.

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season focuses on the concept of community; the broader community of jazz; the numerous communities that nurtured its master practitioners across its timeline; the communities of consciousness that influenced these practitioners; the music’s power to bridge divides and coalesce these distinct communities; and the role of jazz – and the arts writ large – in maintaining the human connection in the digital era. Throughout its 2023-24 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center explores these subjects with concerts featuring the forward-thinking composers, virtuosic improvisers, and ingenious conceptualists that populate the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Implicitly or explicitly, season concerts, education programs, advocacy initiatives, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tours directly evoke themes that illuminate, as Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis puts it, the notion that, “Our music has the exceptional ability to bring people together.”