Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet with special guest David Liebman to perform May 18 at WVIA’s Live Homegrown Music Concert

PITTSTON &#8211; WVIA-FM will present Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quartet with special guest David Liebman on a live broadcast of WVIA&#8217;s Homegrown Music Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 18 at the WVIA Public Media Studios.Seats are free, but limited and can be reserved by calling 570-655-2808.Carter and the Presbybop Quartet&#8217;s new CD &#8220;Jazz for the Earth&#8221; features &#8220;Beyond Banff,&#8221; a six movement suite of &#8220;eco-jazz&#8221; celebrating the beautiful and fierce landscape of the Canadian Rockies and human responsibility for the environment.Presbybop Music is a musical venture of Carter, jazz pianist and Clarks Summit Presbyterian minister. After years of pretending to split the life of faith from the music of jazz, Carter has tried to find links between the two halves of his brain. Presbybop Music is his attempt to integrate his strong Presbyterian faith with the rhythms of bebop.In 1993, he formed the Presbybop Quartet with Al Hamme, his college music professor from Binghamton University. With the lineup of drummer Ron Vincent and bassist Tony Marino, the band has evolved into a consort of musicians who have turned heads on the musical scene - and adding new dimensions to the faith and worship of the Christian church.Based in Northeastern Pennsylvania, this group has presented concerts and jazz worship services in churches around the country. Their music has been widely acclaimed. To date, Carter&#8217;s Presbybop Quartet has recorded &#8220;Faith in a New Key,&#8221; &#8220;Dancing Day,&#8221; &#8220;Fragile Incarnation,&#8221; &#8220;Stand On Your Head,&#8221;John According to Jazz&#8221; (with biblical storyteller Dennis Dewey), &#8220;Welcome Home&#8221; (with vocalist Warren Cooper), &#8220;Psalms Without Words&#8221; and &#8220;Interior Window.&#8221;David Liebman&#8217;s career has spanned over four decades, beginning in the 1970s as the saxophone/flautist in both the Elvin Jones and Miles Davis Groups, continuing as a leader since. He has played on nearly 300 recordings with over 100 under his leadership or co-leadership. He is the founder and artistic director of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) existing since 1989.Awards include (Jazz Educators Network Legend of Jazz (2013); National Endowment of the Arts Masters of Jazz (2011); the Order of Arts and Letters (France 2009); Jazz Journalist&#8217;s award for Soprano Saxophone (2007); Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Solo (1998); Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy (Finland-1997).He is currently Artist in Residence at the Manhattan School of Music and has consistently placed in the top three places for Soprano Saxophone in the Downbeat Critic&#8217;s Poll since 1973, winning first place in both the Downbeat and Jazz Times Critic&#8217;s Poll in both 2011 and 2012.