Scoops Carry

Scoops Carry ( actually George Dorman Carey, born January 23, 1915 in Little Rock, † August 4, 1970 in Chicago ) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist -.

Life and work

Scoops Carry's mother was a music teacher, his brother Ed Carry was a band leader and guitarist in Chicago. Carry began playing at the age of eight years; Later he studied at the Chicago College of Music and the University of Iowa. He worked the late 1920s and early 1930s with Cassino Simpson, the Midnight Revellers and Boyd Atkinss Firecrackers. In 1931 he became a member of the band of Lucky Millinder. In 1932 he joined the band of his brother; The two together then introduced the mid-1930s an orchestra. Then Scoops Carry played at Zutty Singleton, Fletcher Henderson and Roy Eldridge; 1938 Art Tatum and orchestras of Horace Henderson. End of the decade he worked briefly at Darnell Howard, before joining Earl noteworthiness band in 1940, Carry remained until 1946, the Hines and worked in his large orchestra, as well as in his small ensemble. He took with Fletcher Henderson ( 1936), Mildred Bailey, Roy Eldridge (1937 ), Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie (1946 ) on.

Then Carry left the music scene and began in 1947 a training in 1947 as a judicial officer; Finally, he worked in the prosecutor's office in Illinois.

Lexigraphic entries

• C. Bohländer: Reclams jazz leader. Reclam, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 3-15-010185-9.