Mike Carr (musician)

Mike Carr ( born December 7, 1937 as Michael Anthony Carr in South Shields, County Durham, England ) is a British jazz organist, pianist and vibraphonist.

Life

Mike Carr is the brother of trumpeter Ian Carr, who first played in its formation EmCee Five. From 1960, he worked with this group to the first Ronnie Stephenson belonged, as a jazz organist in the region around Newcastle. In 1962 he moved to London, from 1963 to 1965 he performed in Africa. Then he starred in Herbie Goins Group Night timer. From 1967 he played in the jazz club Ronnie Scott's 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, inter alia, with Amália Rodrigues at the Hotel Polana occurred in Mozambique.

He worked in the 1970s and 1980s with Scott and with his own bands, which included Dick Morrissey and Tony Coe. With his quartet he accompanied in 1998 the singer Irene Reid on the Le Jardin Jazz Festival in Bayonne. He is considered an innovator of the game on the Hammond organ. Since 2002 he has performed with his Blue Note Quartet, which consists of 2007 the trumpeter Steve Fishwick, bassist Osian Roberts and drummer Spike Wells.

Auswahldiskographie

• Bebop from the East Coast 1960/1962 ( Birdland ) with Ian Carr, John McLaughlin, Gary Cox
• Good Times and the Blues ( Cargo Gold, 1993) with Dick Morrissey, Jim Mullen, Mark Taylor