Stand On Your Head
From the liner notes by George Graham:
It's a somewhat sad economic fact of life than many jazz musicians, including some of the musically gifted and influential, regularly have to work a "day job" earn a decent living in the fickle world of the music business. Occupations range from truck driver (many) to sign painter (Tal Farlow) to psychiatrist (Denny Zietlin). Pianist and composer Bill Carter is in the enviable position of loving his day job. The pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, PA, Rev. Carter sees jazz and his pastoral work as parts of a whole -- two facets of raising people's spirits.
Smitten by jazz at an early age, the graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Princeton Theological Seminary followed a path that never saw him far from his beloved jazz, while he pursued his spiritual calling. The latter has also led to five published books of sermons, and national radio audienc...
It's a somewhat sad economic fact of life than many jazz musicians, including some of the musically gifted and influential, regularly have to work a "day job" earn a decent living in the fickle world of the music business. Occupations range from truck driver (many) to sign painter (Tal Farlow) to psychiatrist (Denny Zietlin). Pianist and composer Bill Carter is in the enviable position of loving his day job. The pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Clarks Summit, PA, Rev. Carter sees jazz and his pastoral work as parts of a whole -- two facets of raising people's spirits.
Smitten by jazz at an early age, the graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Princeton Theological Seminary followed a path that never saw him far from his beloved jazz, while he pursued his spiritual calling. The latter has also led to five published books of sermons, and national radio audienc...
