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Motor City Moments | 
 enlarge | Artist: Regina Carter
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 30769
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 543927
UPC: 731454392723
EAN: 0731454392723
ASIN: B00004WIOF
Release Date: September 26, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Git Sassy - Regina Carter, Jones, Thad | | • | Don't Mess With Mister T. - Regina Carter, Gaye, Marvin | | • | For Someone I Love - Regina Carter, Jackson, Milt | | • | Forever February - Regina Carter, Carter, Regina | | • | Higher Ground - Regina Carter, Wonder, Stevie | | • | Love Theme from Spartacus - Regina Carter, North, Alex | | • | Prey-Loot - Regina Carter, Thompson, Lucky | | • | Fukai Aijo - Regina Carter, Harris, Barry | | • | Chattanooga Choo Choo - Regina Carter, Warren, Harry | | • | Up South - Regina Carter, Carter, Regina |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Blessed with a vibrant violin style that embraces everyone from Stuff Smith and Ray Nance to Jean-Luc Ponty, Regina Carter gives a swinging shout-out to her hometown, Detroit, on Motor City Moments. Trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and saxophonist-bass clarinetist James Carter lend their beautiful tones to Thad Jones's boppish "Don't Git Sassy," and the haunting "Love Theme from Spartacus." Marvin Gaye's "Don't Mess with Mister T," Milt Jackson's "For Someone I Love," and Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" move with a Latin beat. Another Motown great, pianist Barry Harris, lends his Thelonious Monk-Bud Powell lines on his duo with Carter on "Fukai Aijo" and on Lucky Thompson's Charlie Parker -inspired "Prey Loot." Guitarist Russell Malone sits in with Carter on "Chattanooga Choo Choo," and the bluesy "Up South" pays tribute to the Southern heritage of Detroit's black population, which gave the world some beautiful music. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Buy this CD July 23, 2007
Pure Regina Carter, pure simplicity, pure tone and a wonderful CD for a good sound system to show off with.
amazing June 12, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Motor City Moments" is Regina Carter's 4th CD and it is amazing to listen to. It opens with an uptempo, improvisational-like, number, "Don't Git Sassy" then settles into a contemplative, salsa tune "For Somoeone I Love," where Carter plucks her violin then make it laugh, weep and glide all in one song. I haven't heard the Milt Jackson version, but it would be interesting to hear the original to see how this interpretation is different. There also some interesting selections like "The Love Theme from Spartacus." Carter's lamenteous violin is softly accompanied by Marcus Belgrave's flugelhorn. In some instances, the two instruments merge into one sound. But the ultimate gem in this CD is Carter's version of Chattanooga Choo Choo. It should be a standard violin piece much like Mozart's Sonatas. It sounds like it was written for the violin and Carter is in absolute command here, with such fire and fluidity, I'm definetly impress! One should buy this CD just for this number alone.
 violin w/a kick February 21, 2004
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Maybe I shouldn't review this album since I'm not very familiar w/jazz or jazzy styles so what I have to say is coming from a more or less mainstream perspective regarding this genre. With that said, I'm also a sucker for live shows so I'll have to second the reviews that maintain Regina Carter is best experienced live, a fact which prompted me to buy this album after seeing a performance in '01. With this release, I sometimes feel like I'm listening to elevator music but the sultry "Forever February" redeems it somewhat; her cover of Marvin Gaye's "Don't Mess With Mr. T" is also interesting. Besides that, I should mention that Carter is an enchanting violinist. Go see her live performances.
Positive Vibrations January 19, 2001
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Smooth and positive music. Regina's violin technique is outstandingly soulful.
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