John Carter

John Carter was an American clarinettist, saxophonist and composer from Fort Worth, Texas, who worked in Los Angeles from 1961 until his death in 1991. He co-led a series of free jazz groups with trumpeter Bobby Bradford and later gave up the saxophone to concentrate on the clarinet. He is best known for Roots and Folklore, a five-part suite on African American history. Carter grew up in Fort Worth alongside Ornette Coleman, Charles Moffett and Dewey Redman, and taught in public schools in Texas and California until the early 1980s.