Scoops Carry
George "Scoops" Dorman Carey (* 23. January 1915 in Little Rock , † 4. August 1970 in Chicago ) was an American jazz - saxophonist and clarinetist.
Life
Scoops Carry's mother was a music teacher and his brother Ed Carry was a band leader and guitarist in Chicago. Carry started playing at the age of eight; he later studied at the Chicago College of Music and at Iowa University . He worked with Cassino Simpson , the Midnight Revellers, and Boyd Atkin's Firecrackers in the late 1920s and early 1930s . In 1931 he became a member of Lucky Millinder's band . In 1932 he joined his brother's band; the two then led an orchestra together in the mid-1930s. After that, Scoops Carry played with Zutty Singleton , Fletcher Henderson and Roy Eldridge ; 1938 with Art Tatum and Horace Henderson's orchestra . At the end of the decade he worked briefly with Darnell Howard before joining the Earl Hiness Band in 1940. Carry stayed with Hines until 1946 and worked in his large orchestra as well as in his small ensemble. He recorded with Fletcher Henderson (1936), Mildred Bailey , Roy Eldridge (1937), Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie (1946).
After that, Carry left the music scene and began training as a Rechtspfleger in 1947; eventually he worked in the Illinois prosecutor's office .
Lexigraphic entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185/10196). Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carry, scoops |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carry, George Dorman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little rock |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1970 |
| Place of death | Chicago |