Historical Dictionary of Jazz. John S. Davis

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СКАЧАТЬ and 1980s include Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Quincy Jones, and many others. Carlton became one of the most in-demand studio musicians, performing on more than 3,000 studio sessions for film soundtracks, television themes, and more than 100 gold records. He was awarded a Grammy in 1981 for composing the theme song for the TV show Hill Street Blues. After a long period of rehabilitation due to a gunshot wound he received outside his studio in 1988, Carlton joined the GRP record label in 1991 and eventually replaced Lee Ritenour in the smooth jazz group Fourplay. Carlton has received 19 Grammy Award nominations, winning four times, most recently in the category of Best Pop Instrumental Album for the recording Take Your Pick (Vermillion) in 2010.

      CARMICHAEL, HOAGLAND HOWARD “HOAGY” (1899–1981)

      A composer, songwriter, and singer. An early friendship with cornetist Bix Beiderbecke led him to compose one of his first works, “Riverboat Shuffle,” which was recorded by the Wolverines in 1924. He completed a law degree in 1926 but returned to music after he heard a Red Nichols recording of his “Washboard Blues.” Thereafter he moved to New York and began his career as a songwriter, collaborating with many lyricists including Johnny Mercer. His most famous compositions include “Stardust,” “Skylark,” “Georgia on My Mind,” “The Nearness of You,” and “Heart and Soul.” He won an Academy Award in 1951 for “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.”

      CARNEGIE HALL JAZZ ORCHESTRA

      Founded in 1991 by George Wein and led by musical director Jon Faddis, the group presented concerts paying tribute to classic jazz musicians as well works by living composers including Toshiko Akiyoshi, Maria Schneider, John Clayton, Slide Hampton, and others. The band did worldwide tours from 1994 to 1996 and recorded several albums. The group disbanded in 2002 when support from Carnegie Hall was discontinued.

      CARNEY, HARRY HOWELL (1910–1974)

      Carney was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and began his musical life playing piano at age 7, the clarinet at 14, and the saxophone one year later. His major instrument was baritone saxophone, and he was considered the first baritone saxophone soloist in jazz. In 1927, Carney joined Duke Ellington’s orchestra when he was 17 and remained with the band for over 46 years. He recorded with Ellington that same year, and at the end of the year, the band began its residency at the Cotton Club in New York City. His rich sonority became an essential element in Ellington’s tonal palette, and in a band brimming with individualists, his playing had a character all its own. Carney played with a massive tone and direct style and would frequently play clarinet with the band as well. Carney additionally collaborated with other artists, including Benny Goodman and pianist Billy Taylor among others.

      CAROLINA COTTON PICKERS

      A band formed in Florida in 1933 from members of the Jenkins orphanage bands.

      CARR, IAN (1933–2009)

      Trumpet player, writer, and teacher. He taught himself to play the trumpet in 1950 and played in many bands throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, most notably the band Nucleus, an important and popular jazz-rock group. His biography of Miles Davis, Miles Davis: A Critical Biography, is recognized as one of the seminal works on Miles Davis, and he cowrote Jazz: A Rough Guide, which is a standard reference text. See also ENGLAND.

      CARRINGTON, TERRI LYNE (1965–)

      A jazz drummer and composer, Carrington began playing drums at the age of seven and was awarded a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music at the age of 11. She moved to New York in 1983 and began performing with jazz musicians including Lester Bowie, Stan Getz, Pharoah Sanders, and others. She gained national recognition on late-night television as the house drummer for The Arsenio Hall Show. An advocate for social justice, Carrington founded the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at the Berklee College of Music. Carrington has won three Grammy Awards, including for The Mosaic Project in 2012, which featured an all-star, all-female ensemble. She received a Doris Duke Award in 2019.

      CARRUTHERS, EARL “JOCK” (1910–1971)

      A baritone saxophone player, Carruthers played with Bennie Moten’s band in 1928 in Kansas City before moving to St. Louis to play with Dewey Jackson and Fate Marable, followed by a long membership in the band of Jimmie Lunceford. After Lunceford’s passing in 1947, Carruthers continued to play in the band before moving back to Kansas City, where he performed with local groups throughout the 1960s.

      CARSTENSEN, STIAN (1971–)

      Carstensen is an accordion and banjo player born in Eidsvoll, Norway. He began playing accordion at the age of nine. While still a teenager, Carstensen performed at festivals and for radio and television, and he toured the United States. He studied jazz at the Trondheim Musikkonseratorium, with guitar as his main focus. During his two years of study, he formed the group Farmers Market—a group he would work with for many years. Following a trip to Bulgaria, Carstensen became fascinated with the local folk music and began to incorporate music of Bulgaria and Romania into his repertoire. He learned to play banjo and began playing with various bebop and avant-garde jazz groups. His work as a multi-genre instrumentalist continues to receive great attention.

      CARTER, BENNY (1907–2003)

      Known primarily for his alto saxophone playing and also for the ease with which he switched between alto and many other instruments, Benny Carter originally started on the trumpet and took a few lessons on C-melody saxophone before settling on the alto saxophone. After brief stints in the bands of Duke Ellington and Billy Fowler, he worked with Fletcher Henderson from 1930 to 1931. Following that, he was briefly musical director of McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, during which time he also wrote arrangements for the bands of Chick Webb and Benny Goodman, among others. In 1932 he started his own band, which was dissolved in 1934. He moved to Europe and worked in several countries before settling in London as the staff arranger for the BBC Dance Orchestra from 1936 to 1938.

      Carter returned to the United States in 1938 to lead his own band at the Savoy Ballroom until 1940. He then toured with the band before permanently settling in Los Angeles in 1942. He began to write music for films, including portions of Panic in the Streets (1950) and An American in Paris (1951), and later for television productions. During the 1950s and 1960s he continued to compose, arrange, and perform, and by the 1970s he was appearing at festivals and nightclubs and making annual tours of Europe and Japan. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Princeton University in 1974 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, and his composition “Harlem Renaissance Suite” won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Composition in 1992. Widely regarded during the swing era as second only to Johnny Hodges, Carter was influential in the creation of the alto saxophone style before the emergence of Charlie Parker. Among his many notable compositions is the jazz standard “When Lights Are Low.”

      CARTER, BETTY (1929–1998)

      Born Lillie Mae Jones, Carter was an American jazz singer who grew up in Detroit and got her start singing with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie during their tours through the city. She eventually СКАЧАТЬ