Mike Carr
Michael Anthony "Mike" Carr (* 7. December 1937 in South Shields , County Durham , England ; † 22. September 2017 ) was a British jazz - organist , pianist and vibraphonist .
Life
Mike Carr was the younger brother of trumpeter Ian Carr . He learned a little piano at school, but was actually self-taught . Together with his brother he played in a jazz band at King's College in Newcastle in the mid-1950s . After his military service, he first worked as a sales representative and led his own quartet, which then became the EmCee Five with his brother . From 1960 he worked with this group, which initially included Ronnie Stephenson , as a jazz organist in the Newcastle region . In 1962 he moved to London , from 1963 to 1965 he performed in Africa. Then he played in Herbie Goin's group Nighttimers . From 1967 he had his own trio, to which John McLaughlin belonged; he played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and accompanied musicians such as Coleman Hawkins , Don Byas , Dizzy Gillespie , Illinois Jacquet , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Kenny Clarke and Jimmy Witherspoon . From 1968 to 1969 he played in the Portuguese Quinteto Académico , with which he a. a. performed with Amália Rodrigues at the Hotel Polana in Mozambique .
Carr worked with Scott in the 1970s and 1980s and with his own formations, which included Dick Morrissey and Tony Coe . In 1998 he accompanied the singer Irene Reid with his quartet at the Le Jardin Jazz Festival in Bayonne . He is considered to be the innovator of the game on the Hammond organ . From 2002 he appeared with his Blue Note Quartet , which in 2007 included trumpeter Steve Fishwick , bassist Osian Roberts and drummer Spike Wells . In 2010 he recorded the album That's Entertainment as a duo with Jim Mullen .
Discography (selection)
- Bebop from the East Coast 1960/1962 (Birdland) with Ian Carr, John McLaughlin , Gary Cox
- Good Times and the Blues (Cargogold, 1993) with Dick Morrissey, Jim Mullen, Mark Taylor
literature
- Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz . Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 . (6th edition)
Web links
- Cargogold Productions
- Discography
- Mike Carr at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary The Herald (Glasgow) , October 6, 2017
- ^ Supplement to the retrospective of the Quinteto Académico: Train - Integral 1966 - 1969. Valentim de Carvalho 2008
- ↑ www.puresource.co.uk , accessed November 30, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carr, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carr, Michael Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British jazz organist, pianist and vibraphonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Shields , County Durham , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 22nd September 2017 |