Born in 1973, Chris Carroll began his musical journey playing the cello and the orchestra snare in grade school and while attending military school in his early teens he received a firm foundation in military rudiments. Chris started his professional music career at age 13, playing the drums for local bands in the New York Area and attended the performing arts high school, BOCES Cultural Arts where he discovered his love for improvisational music. In 1992, Chris graduated from the New School for of Social Research. He has studied with teachers such as Gary Chaffee, Jim Chapin, Adam Nussbaum, Charlie Persip and currently activly studying Hindustani music with Dan Wiess. He has received scholarships from the National Endowment of Arts, the New School for Social Research and in 2005, Chris received a scholarship to attend the International Jazz Workshop at The Banff Center where he studied and preformed with Dave Douglas, Greg Osby, Scott Colley, Mark Dresser, among others.
In addition to releasing one cd as a leader: “Facing Away”, Chris has recorded as a sideman on Justin Flynn's "Evolution" and Bryan Murray's "What you don't Forget" and he has performed with musicians such as Donny McCaslin, Ben Monder, Brad Shepik, Ron Affif, Paul Bollenback, Hans Glawischnig, Matt Penman, George Colligan, Lea Delaria, Vic Juris and many others.
Currently Chris lives in Brooklyn, NY where he teaches drums and leads his own band playing around the Tri-State area.. Chris's musical style incorporates American Jazz Standards bounded with heavy elements of Afro-Latin, Balkan, Middle Eastern and Indian musical styles
For more information on him and his music CD's, please visit www.chriscarrollmusic.com
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
Hey dude, how's everything? Any news about the possible gig with Red and that crazy french bass player? ;-) Let me know when you find out, take care! -Sam
Hello Chris, you're a wonderful musician! thanks a lot for adding me. I hope you were appreciating my overtone singing compositions and my music therapy path. Keep in touch, I'm planning to live and work in Arizona. Ciao, Raffaele Schiavo
