Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge

For decades, the voice of Jean Carne has been a crucial part of the American musical landscape, tying together generations of Jazz, Gospel, and R&B artists. As a solo artist, backing vocalist, and vocal coach, she has contributed to and collaborated with the likes of Norman Connors, Doug Carn, Dexter Wansel, Phyllis Hyman, Lonnie Liston Smith, Michael Jackson, and many more. At 74, she shows no signs of slowing down.

Many will recognize Carne from her output in the early 1970s, alongside her then-husband Doug Carn, for the lauded Black Jazz label. During this era of Afro-centric creativity, the duo’s output found themselves at the nexus of jazz’s tectonic past decade and the fertile ground ahead. Without the constraints of genre or structure, artists such as Carne, on her Black Jazz output as well as on the saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s “Bridge Into The New Age” and percussionist Mtume’s “Rebirth Cycle”, began to explore and re-interpolate, continuing the tradition of jazz music as a mode of reinvention, repurposing, and reimagining.

Adrian Younge

Jean Carne JID012

Jazz Is Dead
Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
LP

$28.99

Black
Released 08/12/2022Catalog Number

LP-JID-012

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Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
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$32.99

Transparent Red Vinyl

Released 10/21/2022Catalog Number

LP-JID-012C

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Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
CD

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Released 05/27/2022Catalog Number

CD-JID-012

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Adrian Younge

Jean Carne JID012

Jazz Is Dead
Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
LP

$28.99

Black
Released 08/12/2022Catalog Number

LP-JID-012

Learn more
Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
LP +

$32.99

Transparent Red Vinyl

Released 10/21/2022Catalog Number

LP-JID-012C

Learn more
Album artwork for Jean Carne JID012 by Adrian Younge
CD

$16.99

Released 05/27/2022Catalog Number

CD-JID-012

Learn more

For decades, the voice of Jean Carne has been a crucial part of the American musical landscape, tying together generations of Jazz, Gospel, and R&B artists. As a solo artist, backing vocalist, and vocal coach, she has contributed to and collaborated with the likes of Norman Connors, Doug Carn, Dexter Wansel, Phyllis Hyman, Lonnie Liston Smith, Michael Jackson, and many more. At 74, she shows no signs of slowing down.

Many will recognize Carne from her output in the early 1970s, alongside her then-husband Doug Carn, for the lauded Black Jazz label. During this era of Afro-centric creativity, the duo’s output found themselves at the nexus of jazz’s tectonic past decade and the fertile ground ahead. Without the constraints of genre or structure, artists such as Carne, on her Black Jazz output as well as on the saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s “Bridge Into The New Age” and percussionist Mtume’s “Rebirth Cycle”, began to explore and re-interpolate, continuing the tradition of jazz music as a mode of reinvention, repurposing, and reimagining.