Bill Carter (3)

Writer, photographer, and jazz clarinet player active in San Francisco, CA. In 1993, Bill Carter happily joined his Stanford University classmates Bill Tooley and John Matthews to help create the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. He has served as its Chairman for over 25 years. Mr. Carter has enjoyed a distinguished side career as a clarinetist, having performed traditional jazz with the great Turk Murphy Jazz Band and numerous others. He is a critically acclaimed photographer and writer. In the 1960s, he travelled widely as a photojournalist based in New York, Beirut, Yemen, Iraq, London and San Francisco. He is well known for his in-depth photographic studies of the Kurdish people. Among his five books, he published the definitive work on New Orleans' Preservation Hall in 1991.