Michael Carvin
Michael Wayne Carvin ( born December 12, 1944 in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz drummer, bandleader and teacher.
Life and work
Carvin came to Los Angeles in 1963, where he was a studio musician and studied at LA Community College. 1964/65 he played in the big band of Earl Grant, with whom he went on tour two years through Europe, Japan and the United States. 1966 to 1968 he was to entertain the U.S. troops in Vietnam. He toured with BB King and worked in the late 1960s for Motown Records in Detroit. From 1970 he was back in Los Angeles. In 1973 he was a member of the band by Freddie Hubbard; then he moved to New York. There he worked among others with Pharoah Sanders, Lonnie Liston Smith and McCoy Tyner, joined the trio of Hampton Hawes at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1971 and worked, among other things with recordings of Jackie McLean (New York Calling, 1974 and duo album Antiquity ) and Frank Strozier ( Remember Me, 1976). 1975 originated with Cecil Bridgewater and Sonny Fortune his debut album The Camel for Steeplechase; In 1982, he worked in the quartet of saxophonist Charles Davis. Since 1983 he lives in New York. He also taught at Rutgers University and has published books on drumming. With his students, he formed the ensemble Young Drummers of America.
From the late 1980s he took some albums for Muse Records on under his own name; at Between Me and You (1989 ) he played with Claudio Roditi, John Stubblefield, Cyrus Chestnut and Cecil Bridgewater; on the resulting album a few months later Revelation (1989 ) also had Sonny Fortune and John Hicks. In the 1990s, he still worked on some productions of Muse and Steeplechase, so Ernie Andrews, Randy Johnston and Terumasa Hino. In 1990, he starred in Frank Lacy Quartet with Fred Hopkins; 1991 Hamiet Bluiett. 2000 Carvin could be heard on the album Low Down and Blue by Frank Lowe; In 2001 he participated in the production directed by Butch Morris Vietnam - with The Aftermath of Billy Bang.
Michael Carvin's last release was the ( best according to Allmusic ) album Marsalis Music Honours Michael Carvin in 2006, where he worked with a trio of younger musicians, so with bassist Dezron Douglas, the Pianistdn Carlton Holmes and the tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland; Producer Branford Marsalis has a guest appearance at the Medley " Prisoner of Love / Body and Soul". 2013 he works with his band, The Michael Carvin Experience, Keith Loftis ( saxophone), Yayoi Ikawa ( piano) and Jansen Cinco ( bass) belong.
Carvin taught in New York in a separate drum school and wrote the textbook Something for All Drummers. His students included, inter alia, Neal Smith and the Danish drummer Aage Tanggaard.
Swell
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
- Kunzler jazz lexicon, 2002