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Bryan Carrott

Jazz vibraphonist, mallet percussionist, and pianist, Bryan Carrott has toured and/or recorded with David "Fathead" Newman, Ralph Peterson, Henry Threadgil, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sam Rivers, Don Byron, Dave Douglas, Charlie Hunter, Bob Moses, Roy Campbell, Herbie Mann, Cassandra Wilson, John Lurie & the Lounge Lizards, Greg Osby, Tom Harrell, Bennie Wallace, Steve Kroon, Joe Batan, & Kip Hanrahan. For several years consecutively, Bryan has been cited in Down Beat Magazine's International Critics' Poll, and has been featured on several film soundtracks, including "3A.M.", with Branford Marsalis. As a clinician for Ross Mallet Instruments, Bryan has lead educational performances at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, Percussive Arts Society Int’l Convention, Berklee College of Music Percussion Festival, Rutgers University, Princeton University, Day of Percussion in Sayville, N.Y, & the Taipei Int‘l Percussion Summer Camp in Taiwan. Bryan was also a featured soloist with Cologne, Germany's WDR Orchestra conducted by Gunther Schuller, and was a mallet percussionist for Disney’s Broadway production of “The Lion King”. He currently serves as coordinator & professor of percussion studies at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, N.Y.

Marshall Crenshaw: From "The Hellhole"

Read "From "The Hellhole"" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
September 6, 2025

In something of a reflection of its sardonic title, Marshall Crenshaw's From “The Hellhole" is not an album of all-new, never-before-recorded original material. It consists instead of revamped versions of recordings the Detroit native 'completed' for release in various forms in recent years (not the least of which is the now out-of-print #392: The EP Collection (Red River, 2015). Like the remix of Rare Earth's Motown hit “I Just Want to Celebrate," the details of the reworkings of ...

Liner Notes

Reggie Nicholson: No Preservatives Added

by Howard Mandel
February 17, 2023

From cosmic gong signaling it's “Time to Reset" to bluesy combo asking that we “Say It Ain't So," Reggie Nicholson's Percussion Concept on No Preservatives Added makes music of real life and sonic imagination. Beats, breathes, cycles, syncopations and synchronizations--dances, stances, gestures, textures—rhythmic physicality and melodic extrapolation--expressive, engaging improvisations of a masterful team, that proceed by thought, feeling, and especially ear to unexpected places. These are ingredients of composer-percussionist Nicholson's seventh intriguing, original, self-produced album, which without artificiality seems timely ...

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Ralph Peterson Fo'tet: The Fo'tet Plays Monk

Read "The Fo'tet Plays Monk" reviewed by Rick Bruner

by Rick Bruner
December 1, 1997

The music of Thelonious Monk has influenced the entire spectrum of modern jazz. Tributes to Monk's music have been recorded by a wide variety of artists, from vocalist Carmen McRae to saxophonist Steve Lacy and musical auteur Hal Wilner. The rather unique line-up of the Ralph Peterson Fo'tet (drums/sax/vibraphone/bass) is refreshing on this program of Monk and Monk-inspired material.The Fo'tet Plays Monk (Ralph Peterson, drums; Belden Bullock, bass; Bryan Carrott, vibraphone; Steve Wilson, soprano sax) brings an adventurous ...

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Performance / Tour

"The CO-Operation" Featuring Bryan Carrott at "Jammin' on the Hudson" on August 9th

Source: Michael Ricci
July 28, 2009

Riverbank State Park, in association with Brownstone Entertainment Complex, LLC, for our fifth consecutive year are pleased to present: “Jammin' On The Hudson".

On Sunday August 9th we Present; The Co-operation. This Band is the brain-storm of its Bassist/Leader, who left working with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers to form this band. Band alumni include John Hicks, Michael Carvin, Robin Eubanks, Clifford Adams, Steve Nelson, Wallace Roney, Bobby Watson, Chico Freeman and Wynton Marsalis... The objective of ...
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Primary Instrument

Vibraphone

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

Professor/Coordinator of Percussion - Five Towns College(4 yrs.) Clinician - Ross Mallet Instruments Private Mallet Teacher - (15 yrs.) Pianos Class Teacher - Alvanos Piano Studio(20 yrs.) Private teaching rate: $75/hr. $100/hr & 1/2