Smalls Afternoon Jam Session Hosted by Carol Morgan
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Carol Morgan is a NYC jazz trumpet player. Originally from Texas, she is a Juilliard graduate who worked with many remarkable teachers including Ray Crisara, Chris Gekker, and Mark Gould.
Carol's discography includes six CD's as a leader. The much anticipated POST COOL (2016) is a return to the Carol Morgan Quartet flavor of her celebrated Blue Glass Music. Retroactive (2013) includes many of her original compositions and features Mike Stern and Chris Cortez among a cast of New York and Houston musicians. A 2011 release, The Carol Morgan Quartet CD, Blue Glass Music received 4 1/2 stars in a DownBeat magazine review. The Carol Morgan Trio CD, Opening, with Harvie S and Rich DeRosa was signed by Blue Bamboo Music and released in early 2010. Other session work includes solo outings, Classic Morgana and Passing Time with the Carol Morgan Quintet, as well as filling side-person roles on releases by DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Hawk-Richard Jazz Orchestra, The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, NPR's The Engines of Our Ingenuity, Thomas Helton, Henry Darragh and Calvin Owens. As a composer she has been commissioned by DiverseWorks, the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, the Arch-diocese of Houston/Galveston and St. Thomas Presbyterian Church, Houston. In 2008, Carol authored what is now a highly-regarded method for jazz improvisation--a textbook entitled The Practicing Improviser, published by qPress.
Carol's goal as an artist and teacher is to help people enjoy music more.
Press:
"Rising Star"--DownBeat magazine"4 1/2 stars" --James Hale, DownBeat magazine"Carol Morgan has proven on prior records to be a superb straight jazz musician, but the wider range of styles found on Retroactive reveals that she’s just a superb musician, period."--S. Victor Aaron, somethingelsereviews.com"She's just so damned fascinating to listen to."--Mark S. Tucker, FAME Reviews"A sparkling, mature but under-recognized trumpeter, Carol Morgan fronts a stellar crew on her impressive fourth release as a leader. The organic interplay that she forges with her frontline partner Joel Frahm, a formidable and consistently adventurous tenor sax player, is sheer magic. A superb outing."--Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times"Morgan takes her trumpet downtown, runs into Matt Wilson and Joel Frahm (and) they open a can of whup ass on some jazz classics..."--Chris Spector, Midwest Record
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Steve Little has recorded with the big bands of Lionel Hampton(Newport Uproar), Charlie Barnett (Live at Basin Street), and Duke Ellington (two Grammy Award-winning albums, His Mother Called Him Bill and The Second Sacred Concert). He also recorded with Dave Brubeck, Ray Nance, Terry Gibbs, Sal Salvador, and played with Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Clark Terry, Weather report(on perc) The Smithsonian jazz orchestra and many others.
Steve has worked and recorded with many singers including Teri Thornton, Joan Baez, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Billy Ekstine, Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, Sara Vaughan, Anita O’day and Andy Williams. He has played a number of Broadway shows, in the pit orchestra at Radio City Music Hall, classical music concerts including The Stravinsky Festival at Lincoln Center, recorded George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique with Maurice Peress, Dialogues for Bassoon and Percussion by Alvin Brehm, and recorded many movie and TV films and television shows.
His playing probably reached its largest audience during his 22 years in the studio band that recorded the music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
Carol's discography includes six CD's as a leader. The much anticipated POST COOL (2016) is a return to the Carol Morgan Quartet flavor of her celebrated Blue Glass Music. Retroactive (2013) includes many of her original compositions and features Mike Stern and Chris Cortez among a cast of New York and Houston musicians. A 2011 release, The Carol Morgan Quartet CD, Blue Glass Music received 4 1/2 stars in a DownBeat magazine review. The Carol Morgan Trio CD, Opening, with Harvie S and Rich DeRosa was signed by Blue Bamboo Music and released in early 2010. Other session work includes solo outings, Classic Morgana and Passing Time with the Carol Morgan Quintet, as well as filling side-person roles on releases by DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Hawk-Richard Jazz Orchestra, The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, NPR's The Engines of Our Ingenuity, Thomas Helton, Henry Darragh and Calvin Owens. As a composer she has been commissioned by DiverseWorks, the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble, the Arch-diocese of Houston/Galveston and St. Thomas Presbyterian Church, Houston. In 2008, Carol authored what is now a highly-regarded method for jazz improvisation--a textbook entitled The Practicing Improviser, published by qPress.
Carol's goal as an artist and teacher is to help people enjoy music more.
Press:
"Rising Star"--DownBeat magazine"4 1/2 stars" --James Hale, DownBeat magazine"Carol Morgan has proven on prior records to be a superb straight jazz musician, but the wider range of styles found on Retroactive reveals that she’s just a superb musician, period."--S. Victor Aaron, somethingelsereviews.com"She's just so damned fascinating to listen to."--Mark S. Tucker, FAME Reviews"A sparkling, mature but under-recognized trumpeter, Carol Morgan fronts a stellar crew on her impressive fourth release as a leader. The organic interplay that she forges with her frontline partner Joel Frahm, a formidable and consistently adventurous tenor sax player, is sheer magic. A superb outing."--Bill Milkowski, Jazz Times"Morgan takes her trumpet downtown, runs into Matt Wilson and Joel Frahm (and) they open a can of whup ass on some jazz classics..."--Chris Spector, Midwest Record
This artist does not have a bio yet.
This artist does not have a bio yet.
Steve Little has recorded with the big bands of Lionel Hampton(Newport Uproar), Charlie Barnett (Live at Basin Street), and Duke Ellington (two Grammy Award-winning albums, His Mother Called Him Bill and The Second Sacred Concert). He also recorded with Dave Brubeck, Ray Nance, Terry Gibbs, Sal Salvador, and played with Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Clark Terry, Weather report(on perc) The Smithsonian jazz orchestra and many others.
Steve has worked and recorded with many singers including Teri Thornton, Joan Baez, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Billy Ekstine, Pearl Bailey, Josephine Baker, Sara Vaughan, Anita O’day and Andy Williams. He has played a number of Broadway shows, in the pit orchestra at Radio City Music Hall, classical music concerts including The Stravinsky Festival at Lincoln Center, recorded George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique with Maurice Peress, Dialogues for Bassoon and Percussion by Alvin Brehm, and recorded many movie and TV films and television shows.
His playing probably reached its largest audience during his 22 years in the studio band that recorded the music for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
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