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  • Genre: Classical / Jazz / Latin

    Location New York, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 25429

    Last Login: 10/13/2012

    Member Since 4/18/2007

    Website www.sudhalter.com

    Record Label Alfa Music

    Type of Label Major

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    CAROL SUDHALTER, AMERICAN SAXOPHONIST/FLUTIST "A musician of the highest order..." Ayana Lowe, JazzNow "...the fullbodied warmth of her baritone sax is...nothing less than transformational". Andrew Velez, All About Jazz New York Jan 06 "I was much impressed with Carol's lyricism ..." "...Carol's polished skills, good taste, and exemplary ability to project her deep feeling for jazz have convinced me that she is one of the strongest players on her instruments currently on the scene". Jazz author W. Royal Stokes, in liner notes to "Shades of Carol". Carol Sudhalter, baritone, tenor and alto saxophonist and flautist, spends 3 months each year touring Europe. She has led her own group at Villa Celimontana Festival (Rome), Aula Giulio Cesare in Campidoglio, and throughout Northern Italy with the Porsche Festival. Guest Appearances include: Perugia's Umbria Jazz (Stage Carducci) with Rockin' Dopsie and the Zydeco Twisters; at JazzAscona with organist Rhoda Scott, and with Mark Brooks and Henry Butler; and a Swiss TV news broadcast with Shannon Powell/Jason Marsalis Quartet. Carol's recent tours have included venues of Northern Italy, Rome, Bari, Paris, and England's Birmingham, Swanage and Upton-upon-Severn Festivals, including appearances with well-known British saxophonists Alan Barnes and his trio, John Hallam, and American saxophonist Greg Abate. Carol has released seven recordings (audio tapes, LPs and CDs) of her sextet and big band. Her latest CD, CAROL SUDHALTER: THE OCTAVE TUNES, (ALFA MUSIC) was released in Rome, and includes prominent Italian and New York-based musicians. Carol plays as guest artist on several recordings including singer Minnie Minoprio's latest CD (Rome, 2006), "Swinging the Blues", bassist Whitney Moulton's "New York Time", and Sarah McLawler's forthcoming CD on Doodlin' Records. Carol lives in New York and performs throughout the United States. In New York she has appeared at the JVC Jazz Festival, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Trumpet's, Birdland, Cobi's Place, Pumpkin's, St. Peter's Jazz Church and more. From 1991 to 2006 she played first as sideman and then as leader, Sunday brunch at CAJUN Restaurant, reviewed in Jazz Times, Hot House, All About Jazz, and NY Post. In May 2004 Carol led her 13-piece big band at the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. She is profiled at length in W.Royal Stokes' Growing Up With Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk About their Lives and Careers, Oxford Univ. Press 2005 (fifteen pages, two photos, and a description of Carol's fiery performance at a six-tenor session at Umbria Jazz's La Taverna; Leslie Gourse's classic "Madame Jazz", (Ch. 14: 'Carol Sudhalter: A Role Model'); Joan Hamburg's "City Wedding"; Lewis Porter's online 'Encyclopedia of Jazz'; and a mention in Peter Westbrook's forthcoming "The Flute in Jazz: Window on World Music". In her home borough of Queens, NY, where she has lived for the past 35 years, Carol founded and directs the Astoria Big Band/Astoria Jazz Band, recipient of over 25 performance and development grants for their presentations including the "Jazz History of Queens" narrated for years by the late bassist Leonard Gaskin; and their present project, "Women Composers of Queens", including works by Julie Mandel, Emme Kemp, Sarah McLawler, Jutta Hipp and others. Carol is from a well-known musical family. As sister of famed jazz author/cornetist Richard Sudhalter, and daughter of saxophonist/violinist Albert Sudhalter, Carol's musical roots, based in swing, are strong and tenacious. Her basic style is mainstream and the warm, rich sound of the saxophone giants of jazz history shines through. Time Out NY, February, 2006, observed of her, "…saxophonist Carol Sudhalter's warm, gutsy sound will put you in mind of Hawk and Ben Webster." In a jazz flute setting Carol Sudhalter's classical training combines with her jazz chops to display percussive energy and deep jazz feeling that consistently elicit admiring audience reaction. contact info: 718 278 5331 Italy cell: 320 1811 835 sudsaxter@gmail.com www.sudhalter.com www.myspace.com/carolsudhalter

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    REVIEW of "The Octave Tunes", June 2010, All About Jazz: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/newyork/aaj_ny_201006.pdf REVIEW OF 'SHADES OF CAROL' from JAZZREVIEW.COM, written by Peter Westbrook Featured Artist: Carol Sudhalter CD Title: Shades of Carol Year: 2005 Record Label: Alfa Music Style: Straight-Ahead / Classic Musicians: Carol Sudhalter- tenor & baritone saxophone, flute with: Olivier Barney - trumpet [1,3,5 & 12], Andrea Tarozzi - piano [1,3,5 & 12], Guido Giacomini - bass [1,3,5 & 12], Vittorio Sicbaldi - drums [1,3,5 & 12], Martha J - vocals [4 & 7], Myrna Lake - vocal [9], Tore Spano - piano [7], Jack Davis - trombone [9 & 11], Bill Gerhardt - piano [2,6, 9 & 11], Dave Ruffels - bass [2,6, 9 & 11] , Tootsie Bean - drums [2,6,9 & 11] The Astoria Big Band [8 & 10]: G. Petropoulos, L. Moses, S. Gluzband, A. Bavota, G. Gongalez - trumpets; J. Davis, N. Mayland, W. Frazer - trombones; L. Caputo, S. Bielski, Sudhalter - saxophones; L. Presgrave - piano; R. Stone - guitar, W. Lin - bass, T. Bean - drums Review: Saxophonist and flutist Carol Sudhalter belongs to the considerable group of fine jazz artists who are well known in their local area but have not built a national following, at least in the US. Carol is unusual, however, in that she has built a considerable reputation in Italy as well as in New York where she currently resides. It has been a constant indictment of American culture that its classical music, jazz, is better understood and appreciated in Europe and Japan than it is at home. (Currently, the music division staff of the Library of Congress are busy cataloging the estate of Lucille Ball, while the archives of several fine jazz musicians, writers, and photographers languish in obscure basements.) One can hardly blame someone like Carol for eyeing Italy's lively jazz scene, along with its beguiling climate and delectable cuisine. Should she leave our shores it will be a great loss, particularly for New York City, especially Queens, where she has tirelessly championed local artists, particularly women, and led a fine big band, while honing her skills on tenor, baritone and flute. (Carol can also be caught live at the Cajun Restaurant on 8th Avenue inn Manhattan where she plays a brunch session every Sunday.) Sudhalter's most recent recording, Shades of Carol, reflects her dilemma. The several tracks recorded in Italy find her in such good form it can only suggest how stimulating she must find that environment. At the same time, she sounds so comfortable among old friends in New York, and the Astoria Big Band swings so hard, that leaving New York would clearly be a wrench. Looks like the permanent jet-lag program is the only solution! The recording itself is not perfect; the big band tracks were recorded in a church and have a slightly distant feel; there is some imprecision in the ensemble work on the quintet sessions recorded in Rome. There is never time for second takes and endless re-mixes on this kind of project, but this is as it should be; most smooth-jazz recordings are so sanitized there is no life left in them. Each of these sessions, by contrast, have a warts-and-all, day-in-the-life-of-a-working-musician feel to them which is much more appealing. There are four different sessions, two from Italy, two from New York, and Sudhalter is in good form throughout. With Coltrane surrogates stacked floor to ceiling in New York, it is refreshing to hear her brusk tenor style that owes more to Lucky Thompson. This contrasts nicely with her flute work which owes a debt to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the late Harold McNair. (Readers who would like to know more about McNair are referred to my forthcoming book The Flute in Jazz: Window on World Music!) A little of their humming-into-the-flute technique goes a long way with me so I am glad to hear Carol apply it sparingly. Lack of thought in selecting material is a pet peeve of mine, but I have to applaud Sudhalter for putting together a nicely balanced program. This includes several under-performed standards and some intriguing originals, two of her own, Dry and It's Time, Firm Roots by Cedar Walton, and a couple by the often-overlooked Tadd Dameron, Soultrane and On A Misty Night. Billy Strayhorn's Lotus Blossom, winsomely sung by Martha J., is notable for the original lyrics by Roger Schore. For the Astoria Big Band numbers Sudhalter turns to the baritone saxophone, her gruff playing owing more to Pepper Adams and Leo Parker than Gerry Mulligan. Again, the material is fresh; how often do we hear On A Slow Boat To China? Perhaps if plenty of people log onto www.sudhalter.com and purchase a copy of this CD Carol may decide to stay in the U.S. when she retires from her teaching position at the end of the year. After all, Italy has Venice, Florence, pasta, great ice cream, Lake Como, the Sistine Chapel . . . But Queens needs the Astoria Big Band and Carol Sudhalter. Tracks: Firm Roots, A Weaver of Dreams, Dry, Fast, Soultrane, Youth, Lotus Blossom, Lullaby of the Leaves, In Walked Bud, On A Slow Boat to China, It's Time, On a Misty Night Record Label Website: http://www.alfamusic.com/english/alfamusic.htm Artist's Website: http://www.sudhalter.com/ Reviewed by: Peter Westbrook

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