Ian Carr
Ian Carr was born in 1933 in Dumfries and educated in Durham and Newcastle, gaining BA Hons in English. After three years National Service as an officer in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, serving in Northern Ireland and Germany, he spent two years travelling and living in Europe. In 1960 he became a Trumpeter with the Emcee Five in Newcastle upon Tyne, then co-leader in London of the Don Rendell-Ian Carr quintet. From 1969-88 his band, Nucleus, pioneered jazz-rock fusion and the use of
electronics, won first Prize at the 1970 Montreux Festival, followed by acclaimed concerts at the US Newport Festival and the Village Gate NYC, and toured worldwide - in Europe, Scandinavia, India, South America, and was very influential in Europe and elsewhere. In 1975 he was a founder member of the international band of composers and bandleaders, The United Jazz & Rock Ensemble, based in Stuttgart.
He became an associate professor at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1982 and a member of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, receiving the Italian Calabria Award for "outstanding contribution in the field of jazz". Throughout these years he played with many other leading musicians, and delivered many broadcast talks about music on Radio 3.
He has been on the committee of the Greater London Arts Association, and served on the Central Music Advisory Committee for BBC Radio and TV . He has been writing for BBC Music Magazine ever since its inception in 1992. In 1999-2000 he worked with Director Michael Dibb on a film documentary biography of Miles Davis for Channel 4 TV and for USA viewing. Ian Carr's 1998 updated biography of Miles Davis received great critical acclaim internationally.
Compositions: Solar Plexus 1970; Labyrinth 1973; Will's Birthday Suite,
1974 (for Globe Theatre Trust); Out Of The Long Dark, 1978;
Northumbrian Sketches, 1986, (for the Kreisler String Ensemble and jazz
Soloists); Old Heartland, 1988; Sounds and Sweet Airs, 1992, (for trumpet
and Cathedral organ, recorded in Southwark Cathedral).
Publications: Music Outside 1973; Miles Davis: a Critical Biography
1982; Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music, 1991; Rough Guide to Jazz
(Jtly) 1995 and 2000; Miles Davis: the Definitive Biography 1998.
Photo Credit: Caroline Irwin
electronics, won first Prize at the 1970 Montreux Festival, followed by acclaimed concerts at the US Newport Festival and the Village Gate NYC, and toured worldwide - in Europe, Scandinavia, India, South America, and was very influential in Europe and elsewhere. In 1975 he was a founder member of the international band of composers and bandleaders, The United Jazz & Rock Ensemble, based in Stuttgart.
He became an associate professor at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1982 and a member of the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, receiving the Italian Calabria Award for "outstanding contribution in the field of jazz". Throughout these years he played with many other leading musicians, and delivered many broadcast talks about music on Radio 3.
He has been on the committee of the Greater London Arts Association, and served on the Central Music Advisory Committee for BBC Radio and TV . He has been writing for BBC Music Magazine ever since its inception in 1992. In 1999-2000 he worked with Director Michael Dibb on a film documentary biography of Miles Davis for Channel 4 TV and for USA viewing. Ian Carr's 1998 updated biography of Miles Davis received great critical acclaim internationally.
Compositions: Solar Plexus 1970; Labyrinth 1973; Will's Birthday Suite,
1974 (for Globe Theatre Trust); Out Of The Long Dark, 1978;
Northumbrian Sketches, 1986, (for the Kreisler String Ensemble and jazz
Soloists); Old Heartland, 1988; Sounds and Sweet Airs, 1992, (for trumpet
and Cathedral organ, recorded in Southwark Cathedral).
Publications: Music Outside 1973; Miles Davis: a Critical Biography
1982; Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music, 1991; Rough Guide to Jazz
(Jtly) 1995 and 2000; Miles Davis: the Definitive Biography 1998.
Photo Credit: Caroline Irwin
