Emmett Carls

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Conte Candoli , Emmett Carls (center) and Chubby Jackson with unknown guitarists and pianists (probably Billy Bauer and Tony Aless ) at the Esquire Club, Long Island, around April 1947. Photo: William P. Gottlieb .

Emmett Carls ( April 1, 1917 , † November 1980 ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ).

Live and act

Carls played from 1942 in the Chico Marx Orchestra , with Sonny Dunham and then with Boyd Raeburn , 1944-45 with Stan Kenton , where he was first tenor.

In 1945 he studied in Chicago with Lennie Tristano , whom he also inspired for a big band that Carls directed, but which did not get beyond the rehearsal stage. In March 1945 he recorded in Chicago under his own name ( The Lost Session ); The musicians involved included Tristano, Marky Markowitz , Earl Swope , Chubby Jackson and Don Lamond . Carls then went to Washington, DC. From late 1945 he worked in New York with Benny Goodman , Mildred Bailey and Chubby Jackson.

In 1946 he married the actress and singer Dorothy Claire , with whom he had already worked at Dunham and whom he had already worked as a manager. The following year he led a combo in New York that also included strings; In 1949 he worked in the orchestra of Chubby Jackson. In 1952 he led the Carousel Orchestra in Pittsburgh. In the field of jazz he was involved in 23 recording sessions between 1943 and 1947.

Web links

Commons : Emmett Carls  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ George Hulme: Mel Torme: A Chronicle of His Recordings, Books and Films , 2000, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Emmett Carls was able to convince other Dunham musicians such as Johnny Bothwell , Marky Markowitz, Earl Swope and Lamond to switch to Raeburn. See Burt Korall: Drummin 'Men: The Heartbeat of Jazz, The Swing Years , 2004, p. 188
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 4, 2017)
  4. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schaal Stan Getz: his life, his music, his records Oreos 1994, p. 31
  5. ↑ a b Eunmi Shim: Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music . Jazz Perspectives 2007, p. 19
  6. ↑ Discographic entry (Michael Fitzgerald)
  7. ↑ Making a Name in Television Baltimore Sun June 15, 1952 p. 149
  8. ^ Billboard , Nov. 15, 1947, p. 18
  9. ^ Billboard, February 19, 1949, p. 109
  10. ^ Pittsburgh Post, Nov. 26, 1952, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Carls, Emmett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1917
DATE OF DEATH November 1980