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Ian Carr was born on April 21, 1933 in Dumfries, Scotland. At the age of seventeen he started to teach himself trumpet and from 1952 to 1956 he attended King’s College. After graduation he joined his brother in a Newcastle band, the EmCee Five in 1960 before moving to London. From 1963-1969 he became co-leader with Don Rendell of the Rendell–Carr Quintet, recording five albums and touring internationally.
After leaving the quintet, Carr went on to form the groundbreaking jazz-rock band Nucleus that led to a successful international career, releasing twelve albums and winning first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival. He would go on to play with the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble in 1975.
Ian worked as a session musician in non-jazz contexts, doubled up on flugelhorn, wrote a regular column for the BBC Music Magazine, penned biographies of Keith Jarrett and Miles Davis, and co-authored The Rough Guide to Jazz. Carr held the position of associate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he founded the jazz workshop that graduated pianist Julian Joseph.
Ian Carr died on February 25, 2009, having suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Issi Rozen was born on April 20, 1967 in Haifa, Israel, his family moved to Tel Aviv during his childhood. His earliest musical memories were lullabies his mother sang. He began playing guitar at age 10, and as a teenager was practicing several hours a day. In 1991, after completing his service in the Israeli Defense Forces, he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music.
After finishing his studies at Berklee, Rozen settled in the Boston suburb of Brookline, released his debut album Red Sea in 1998for Brownstone Records. A year later he released Homeland Blues and in 2003, he released Dark Beauty.
Issi is clearly influenced by jazz guitarists Pat Metheny and Jim Hall but utilizes musical components from his native Israel leaning towards traditional Hebrew song sung primarily by Mizrah Jews while juxtaposing the bebop of the Charlie Parker tune Segment and his original compositions. This hybrid of different genres has given guitarist Issi Rozen critical acclaim as he continues to perform, record and tour.
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notoriously Bebop
Blue Train / John Coltrane – Blue Train ♦ Mustang / Donald Byrd – Mustang ♦ West Coast Blues / Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery ♦ Love Your Spell Is Everywhere / Curtis Fuller – Blues-ette ♦ Poinciana / Ahmad Jamal – At The Pershing ♦ Sonnymoon For Two / Milt Jackson – Statements ♦ Blue Rondo A La Turk / Dave Brubeck – Time Out ♦ Speak No Evil / Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil ♦ Punjab / Joe Henderson – In ‘N Out ♦ Wee Dot / Art Blakey – A Night At Birdland
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Requisites
Forest Flower & Soundtrack: This 1967 release was recorded when Charles Lloyd brought his band to Monterey for an unprecedented performance. A set of far-reaching, sophisticated progressive jazz that was rich and accessible was what a floored audience heard that day. The hippie and college-aged audience were witness to superb interplay, melodic gifts that skirted the edges of what was going on at the time, pushed the boundaries and the talents of this young band. This is decidedly one requisite for the budding initiate of jazz.
Personnel: Charles Lloyd – saxophone, Keith Jarrett – piano, Jack DeJohnette – drums, Cecil McBee – bass
Record Date: September 8, 1966
Songs: Forest Flower – Sunrise, Forest Flower – Sunset, Sorcery, Song Of Her, East Of The Sun, Sombrero Sam, Voice In The Night, Pre-Dawn, Forest Flower ‘69
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Mary Louise Knutson was born on April 19, 1966. The Minneapolis based jazz pianist and composer released her debut CD “Call Me When You Get There” in 2001 charted in the Top 50 in the U.S. and Canada that brought her national recognition. Knutson’s 2011 sophomore project on her Meridian Label, “In The Bubble”, charted in the Top 10 on JazzWeek and stayed for an unprecedented 19 weeks straight.
Mary received Lawrence University’s distinguished Nathan M. Pusey Alumni Achievement Award, was a Top 5 finalist in the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams “Women In Jazz” Pianist Competition, has been nominated for Jazz Artist of the Year and Pianist of the Year by the Minneapolis Music Awards, and has won two composition awards from Billboard Magazine.
As an educator she has sat on the faculty of Carleton College instructing jazz piano and improvisation, and currently teaches privately and conducts a variety of master classes such as Intro to Composition, Freedom From the Written Page: Beginning Improv for Pianists, and Making Sense of Jazz, among others.
Knutson has performed and toured with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dianne Reeves, Kevin Mahogany, Nicholas Payton, Ernie Watts, Slide Hampton, Greg Abate, Bobby Shew and Von Freeman to name a few and has crossed over into other genres to play with Smokey Robinson, Trisha Yearwood, Donny Osmond, Phyllis Diller, Rob Schneider and more. The pianist regularly performs with her group, with area vocalists Connie Evingson and Debbie Duncan; and with the JazzMN Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Chuck Lazarus Quartet.
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