Dancing Day

Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 2, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Orchard
• ASIN: B0000560SL
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,145,940 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dance Your Day!, February 25, 2001

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Kent Ira Groff "Companion for journeyers and ... (Denver, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dancing Day (Audio CD)

Bill Carter is simply the leading guru for today's surge of interest in jazz and church music. A Presbyterian minister, Carter takes favorite hymns--"Be Thou My Vision, Amazing Grace"--and proves there is an alternative between traditional and contemporary. I call it "complementary" music--which is both contemplative and contemporary. You get a stately beginning, then a fast, jazz beat with improv, coupled with slow times for reflection and integration. Then there are the utterly new creations like "Dancing Day," the album's title, inspired by his then preschool daughter's movements while standing in the kitchen. Bill Carter, who in the fall of 2000 presented a musical lecture with an award to Dave Brubeck in person, is deeply influenced by the best of jazz artists while weaving a tapestry of faith that leaves you experiencing a present mystery. Take care, though! Bill Carter can inspire secular lovers of jazz into believing or believing again, and ordinary believers into loving jazz for the first time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cohasset Point, March 5, 2001

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This review is from: Dancing Day (Audio CD)

This is the best album published to date by the PresbyBop Quartet. My personal favorite is Cohasset Point, especially the piano introduction. If you're looking for Christian theology and jazz combined in any easy listening format then this CD is for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a great jazz fan...but, March 20, 2001

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Arthur E. Sundstrom (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dancing Day (Audio CD)

I'm not much of a jazz fan, but I continue to listen to this CD again and again. What Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet have done with some classically religious pieces is just wonderful. It opens new ways of hearing old--and favorite--and powerful pieces. And adds some new things, too! For me, its continually mind and soul expanding.