BAIKIDA CARROLL

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Born: January 15, 1947

Baikida Carroll is a highly pivotal figure in the music world as both a composer and trumpeter. His scores and trumpet have distinguished theater, dance, TV, film and concerts for 4 decades.

His music has been heard at prestigious forums throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Walker Arts Center, La MaMa Theatre, the New York and Washington, DC Shakespeare Festivals, The Corcoran Gallery (Wash. DC), the Chicago Art Museum, the McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NY), the Mark Taper Forum (LA), the Asolo Theatre (Sarasoto, FL) Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), Le Grand Palais (Paris), the Belgium Opera, the Berlin Opera, the Market Theater (Johannesburg, South Africa), and a multitude of international jazz festivals.

As a trumpeter, he has performed and/or recorded with such artist as Cecil Taylor, Carla Bley, Sam Rivers, Anthony Davis, Dewey Redman, Billy Hart, Steve Lacy, Charlie Haden, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve
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BAIKIDA CARROLL Orange Fish Tears album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Orange Fish Tears
Avant-Garde Jazz 1974
BAIKIDA CARROLL Shadows And Reflections album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shadows And Reflections
Avant-Garde Jazz 1982
BAIKIDA CARROLL Door Of The Cage album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Door Of The Cage
Avant-Garde Jazz 1995
BAIKIDA CARROLL Marionettes On A High Wire album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Marionettes On A High Wire
Avant-Garde Jazz 2001

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BAIKIDA CARROLL The Spoken Word album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Spoken Word
Avant-Garde Jazz 1979

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BAIKIDA CARROLL Marionettes On A High Wire

Album · 2001 · Avant-Garde Jazz
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Trumpeter Baikida Carrol, who played with almost every leading American jazz artist from the loft era, released only four studio albums as a leader till now. "Marionettes On A High Wire" is his last one to date.

From the very first seconds, the music represents something almost forgotten nowadays, but perfectly known from the earlier decades of free-bop - blues-rooted well-framed forms of free jazz with lots of tunes and controlled improvisations. Carrol's music is slightly melancholic, with a feelable accent on complex composition. All ten pieces are Baikida's originals, three of them had been written as theatre play soundtracks.

The band is really good, with the brilliant rhythm section of bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Pheeroan akLaff, and the lesser known Adegoke Steve Colson, plus female tenor Erica Lindsay. Sound is groovy, dynamic, but quite relaxed, all of the band obviously enjoys playing together.

This is one good example of an almost lost in a New Millennium branch of free jazz, non-nonsense and accessible, rooted in the best such music tradition, coming from the 70s and 80s.

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