At the age of eleven, guitarist/producer 'Earl Carter' bought a couple of how to books and proceeded to teach himself how to play guitar. At age fifteen, he picked up the saxophone and joined his high school concert band, marching band and jazz ensemble. He practiced on both instruments for several hours everyday in hope of someday becoming a professional musician. Although he became proficient on both instruments, he eventually decided to focus primarily on sharpening his guitar playing skills.

During the late '80s and early '90s, Earl was a member of the platinum hit-making dance/GoGo band, "EU." With EU, he recorded music on the soundtrack to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the GoGo Live music video. In 1999, Earl laid several guitar tracks for many artists at P. Diddy's New York City recording facility, "Daddy's House." He has also co-produced dialogue recordings with his production partner J.R. Fenwick for motivational speakers Les Brown and Willie Jolley, author George Fraser and sports stars Jawan Howard and Nikki McCray.

Over the years, Earl has performed with many local and world-renowned artists. As a side man and/or freelance musician, he has worked with Bobby Lyle, Marcus Johnson, Jaared, Alyson Williams, Nick Colionne, Bob Baldwin, Mike Phillips, Michael Lington, Freddie Jackson, Angela Bofill, Regina Belle, Rhian Benson, Tony Terry, Coolio, Bobby Humphrey, Gerald Veasley, Jimmy Sommers, Miles Jaye, Pamela Williams and many others. He performed at several national, international and local concerts and programs some of which aired on television including; The Ghana Jazz Festival 2003, The Bermuda Jazz Festival 2002, The Bermuda Jazz Festival 2003, The National Smooth Jazz Awards 2002 and many others. In addition to the festivals, he spent time participating in local cable TV show tapings and played on several CD recordings that received national airplay and/or distribution including; Bobby Lyle's - Straight and Smooth, Marcus Johnson's -Live @ Blues Alley, Marcus Johnson's Live - In Person DVD, Marcus Johnson's - Just Doing What I Do, Jaared's - Hangtime, Alyson Williams' - It's About Time, Yahzarah's - Black Star, Kim Scott's - Shake Down and Spike Lee's Soundtrack to Do The Right Thing.

As a front man/guitarist, Earl has opened for world-renowned jazz artists such as Pieces of a Dream, Spyro Gyra, Bona Fide and many others. He's done hundreds of shows, many of which have been for contemporary jazz and straight ahead radio stations i.e. WJZW 105.9, 95.9 in Baltimore and WPFW in Wash. DC. His No Frettin project reached heavy rotation on college radio WHOV in Hampton VA and several copies were sold via live concerts and the internet. Earl uses world class players in his band and makes every effort to give his audience a spactacular show. He ocasionally performs at the legendary jazz club "Blues Alley" located in Washington DC and has just released this outstanding new CD project.

Earl currently writes contemporary jazz, adult contemporary, R&B, pop, gospel and hip hop materials for record labels and other music publishers and producers. His writing and producing credits include compositions for EU, Randy Gill of 2D Extreme, Zoe Spencer and many others.

495 CD Credits:

Michael Baker - Electric Bass (Worked with Rare Essence, Ludacris, Ashanti, etc...)

Greg "Fritz" Blakey - Photography (Worked with several celebrities...)

Michael Burton - Sax (Worked with The UniverSoul Circus, Marcus Johnson, Freddie Jackson, etc...)

Earl Carter - Guitar, Guitar Synth, Synth Bass, Electric Bass, Drum Programing, Recording and Production, Mixing, Artwork

Patrick Cooper - Keyboards, Synth Bass, Recording and Production (Music director for several large international concerts i.e. Burmuda Jazz Festival, Bahamas Music Festival, etc...)

Mike Corbett - Mixing and Mastering (Worked with several celebrities)

Kim Corbett-Knight - Vocals (Worked with Britney Spears and several other artists...)

Prince Dejour - Vocals (Hosted BET's Teen Summit, Radio Personality, etc...)

Jay Williams - Drums and Production (Worked with Will Downing, Jagged Edge, Kelly Price, etc...)

Blue House Productions - CD Replication (Richard Clarke - Co-Artwork / Jeff Gruber - Co-Mastering)