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Carl Grubbs
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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
Saxophonist Carl Grubbs built a community around him everywhere he played, whether in 1970s Philadelphia where people gathered outside of his house to listen to his band practice, or in Baltimore where he mentored countless generations of musicians since the 1990s. Even as his health worsened over the past year, Grubbs continued to see ...
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
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
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
Carl Grubbs is an alto and soprano saxophonist from 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 ...
