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Carl Grubbs

Born: July 27, 1944

Carl Grubbs performs on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones and clarinet. He is an accomplished composer, educator and performing artist. A native of Philadelphia, he received early extensive training from John Coltrane and his brother Earl Grubbs.​ The Carl Grubbs Ensemble performs his original compositions and jazz standards in cities in the U.S. They have performed at jazz festivals in Bogota and Medellin, Columbia, S.A. and most recently an eight-city tour of Brazil.

Through his family, Carl Grubbs was close to many of the history-making musicians of the 1950’s and 1960’s. With his brother, Earl Grubbs, he formed The Visitors, a quintet that recorded four albums for the Muse record label.

Remembering Saxophonist, teacher, and composer Carl Grubbs

by Matt Hooke
January 25, 2024

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 ...

Inner Harbor Suite Revisited: A Tribute to Baltimore

By Carl Grubbs

Label: B&C Productions
Released: 2016

Brother Soul

By Carl Grubbs

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Joy - 9:08; 02. Neptune - 12:24; 03. Reaching For A Star - 9:50; 04. Smile - 5:03; 05. Steve - 3:54; 06. Barbara Dear - 7:34; 07. Pygmy Music - 5:02; 08. Brother Soul - 5:10; 09. Gordon - 8:55

Carl Grubbs: Brother Soul

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 29, 2006

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 ...

Stepping Around the Giant

By Carl Grubbs

Label: CIMP Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Stepping Around the Giant/ Betty Jo and David/ Sax Talk II/ July/ Sax Talk/ Kai.

Carl Grubbs 4tet: Stepping Around the Giant

by Derek Taylor
February 25, 2003

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 ...

Carl Grubbs

by Robert Spencer
April 11, 2001

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 ...