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Remembering Saxophonist, teacher, and composer Carl Grubbs
by Matt Hooke
Saxophonist Carl Grubbs built a community around him everywhere he played, whether in 1970s jny: Philadelphia where people gathered outside of his house to listen to his band practice, or in jny: Baltimore where he mentored countless generations of musicians since the 1990s. Even as his health worsened over the past year, Grubbs continued to see students, determined to make sure jazz continued to the next generation. “How else can the music live," his wife of ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è un nome notissimo, quello di Carl Grubbs - che forse qualcuno ricorderà nella prima formazione dello straordinario sestetto di Julius Hemphill o le più recenti incisioni con Odean Pope - ma giunto ormai oltre la soglia dei sessant'anni, il sassofonista della Pennsylvania è certamente artista di solida esperienza e buona personalità. In questa incisione per la CIMP, registrata nel giugno del 2005, lo troviamo alla testa di un quartetto “pianoless" in compagnia di Salim Washington - che al ...
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by Derek Taylor
Carl Grubbs is living, breathing proof of the adage “live isn’t fair.” Like so many of his peers, he’s largely fallen through the cracks over the years- a casualty of the public ambivalence that usually signals the lot of creative improvising musicians. But it wasn’t always so; back in the early Seventies with his brother Earl he made a valiant push for the big time through a contract on the Muse label. Three records later the debilitating weight of commerical ...
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by Robert Spencer
Carl Grubbs is an alto and soprano saxophonist from jny: Philadelphia with a singularly distinctive family tree: his cousin is Naima herself, who as John Coltrane's wife inspired one of the most beautiful ballads in jazz. Coltrane was close to Carl's section of the family, and he was quick to teach Carl a thing or two on the saxophone. It shows. Carl Grubbs is a great saxophonist who has played with some of the greatest players ...
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