Daniel Carter (b.1945, Wilkinsburg, PA ) is a writer, composer, and multi-reed / trumpet player, who, since coming to New York in 1970, has sought out people, situations, and dimensionalities that encourage free artistic, political, philosophical, and spiritual expression and life. He has performed and (or) recorded with Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Yoko Ono, Roy Campbell, Anne Waldman, Matthew Shipp, Devin Waldman, William Parker, Yo La Tengo, Sean Lennon, Sam Rivers, Thurston Moore, Ambrose Bye, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Sabir Mateen, Other Dimensions in Music, TEST, and many others.