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The Kevin Brady Trio Featuring Bill Carrothers Live In Dublin Ireland

The Kevin Brady Trio Featuring Bill Carrothers Live In Dublin Ireland

Source: Kevin Brady

The Kevin Brady Trio featuring Bill Carrothers @ JJ Smyth's The band's back together on the 27th of June 2013, for a night of top-class jazz from Kevin Brady, Dave Redmond and Bill Carrothers! Venue: JJ Smyths, Aungier Street Date: Thursday 27th of June Time: 20:30pm €10 Kevin Brady - Drums Dave Redmond - Double Bass Bill Carrothers - Piano After numerous knock-out tours, two hugely successful CD's , Irish ...

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TV / Film

Big Notes Films Releases DVD: "We’ll Be White Black" with Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Peterson, Joe Pulice & Bill Carrothers

Big Notes Films Releases DVD:  "We’ll Be White Black" with Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Peterson, Joe Pulice & Bill Carrothers

Source: Nicole Thompson

Big Notes Films Releases DVD: “We'll Be White Black" with Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Peterson, Joe Pulice & Bill Carrothers Big Notes Films, a film production company owned and operated by Bradford Thompson, is pleased to announce the release of the DVD We'll Be White Black, filmed live at The Dakota Restaurant & Jazz Club in Minneapolis. It was a collaborative project with Billy Peterson (former bassist, The Steve Miller Band) as Music Producer, and Bradford Thompson as Director/Producer. Tenor saxophonist, ...

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Recording

Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)

Bill Carrothers - Joy Spring (Pirouet)

Source: Master of a Small House

June 26, 1956 - a day that will forever register in the ledger of jazz tragedy. Pianist Bill Carrothers pays tribute to the two jazz icons lost on that faithful date, Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, on this consistently engaging trio session. Carrothers covers the major bases of the Brown and Powell songbook, also pulling in tunes by other composers that they favored on albums and concert sets. Regular collaborators bassist Drew Gress and Bill Stewart jibe perfectly with his ...

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Interview

Pianist Bill Carrothers Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist Bill Carrothers Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

A conversation with pianist Bill Carrothers reveals an unusual man; one who is to-the-point and forthright to a fault, perhaps, and one who's words spill from his mind unfiltered by anyone's expectations. Much the way his playing on Joy Spring (Pirouet, 2010)--a celebration of the music of hard bop trumpet icon Clifford Brown--seems to spill from his fingers. It's a conversation that careens from jazz, global warming and baseball to home restoration projects, the difficulties of reroofing his Mass City, ...

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Recording

Pianist Bill Carrothers Releases New CD on Pirouet Records Titled "Joy Spring"

Pianist Bill Carrothers Releases New CD on Pirouet Records Titled "Joy Spring"

Source: Two for the Show Media

BILL CARROTHERS - JOY SPRING - PIROUET RECORDS BILL CARROTHERS: piano DREW GRESS: bass BILL STEWART: drums

When you listen to the title piece, it's hard to believe what you're hearing. You would never imagine it could sound like this. The piano celebrates a stoic slowness, appears to mark time. Pensive, enigmatic. With endless patience, tentatively feeling its way from bar to bar. Searching. Seemingly struggling with the musical gestalt. Got the wrong track? No: you ...

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Performance / Tour

Bill Carrothers a Jazz Stalwart Long Absent Returns to the Village

Bill Carrothers a Jazz Stalwart Long Absent Returns to the Village

Source: Michael Ricci

The pianist Bill Carrothers is a New York jazz expatriate, that rare creature who left the scene just as he was starting to make an impression.

Reared in the Midwest, he returned there more than a dozen years ago, planting roots in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and cultivating a fondness for snowmobiles. (Such trivia can be found at carrothers.com, along with a map complete with his address.) He never stopped playing or recording, but his bond with the nightclub ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Carrothers

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Carrothers

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Carrothers' birthday today!

JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bill Carrothers

Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for over 20 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris)... more

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Bill Carrothers Trio at Village Vanguard, July 14-19

Bill Carrothers Trio at Village Vanguard, July 14-19

Source: Two for the Show Media

Pianist, Composer, & Bandleader Bill Carrothers will be performing with his Trio (featuring Nicolas Thys on bass, Dre Pallemaerts on drums) at The Village Vanguard in NYC from Tuesday, July 14, 2009 thru Sunday, July 19th, 2009 Bill Carrothers Trio: Bill Carrothers - Piano Nicolas Thys - bass Dre Pallemaerts - drums “One of the most underrated jazz pianist around." Pacific Sun Bill Carrothers Trio The Village Vanguard 178 7th Ave. South ...

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