ICONIC JAZZ SAXOPHONIST CARL GRUBBS at Germano's Piattini

CARL GRUBBS is a legendary jazz saxophonist with a distinguished career as a performer, composer, music educator and recording artist. He performs on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones and clarinet. Early in his career, he received extensivetraining from one of the music worlds greatest legends in jazz, John Coltrane. Through his family, Carl Grubbs was close to many of the history-making musicians of the 1950s and 1960s. With his brother, Earl Grubbs, he formed The Visitors, a quintet that recorded four albums for the Muse record label. The Carl Grubbs Ensemble has performed his original compositions and jazz standards in cities in the USA, and they have performed at jazz festivals in Bogota and Medellin, Columbia, S.A. and most recently an eight-city tour of Brazil and other major cities world wide....

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CARL GRUBBS is a legendary jazz saxophonist with a distinguished career as a performer, composer, music educator and recording artist. He performs on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones and clarinet. Early in his career, he received extensivetraining from one of the music worlds greatest legends in jazz, John Coltrane. Through his family, Carl Grubbs was close to many of the history-making musicians of the 1950s and 1960s. With his brother, Earl Grubbs, he formed The Visitors, a quintet that recorded four albums for the Muse record label. The Carl Grubbs Ensemble has performed his original compositions and jazz standards in cities in the USA, and they have performed at jazz festivals in Bogota and Medellin, Columbia, S.A. and most recently an eight-city tour of Brazil and other major cities world wide.
"Grubbs has crafted a work of considerable color and depth in his Inner Harbor Suite; melodies, counter-melodies, blues elements of call and response, bebop rhythms, Afro-Cuban rhythms and avant-garde elements." – Howard Mandel, DownBeat Magazine"The quartet takes the tonal centers of Trane’s “Giant Steps”? as their shared springboard. Grubbs solos first, crafting a highly personalized tribute to the composer through a verbose series of high register note streams . . . bouts of impressive circular breathing in solo and tandem, but the extended reed techniques never compromise the musicality of their endeavors. 'July' features the full quartet galloping through another of Grubb’s melodically charged creations Miles Davis’s 'Four'? supplies further fodder for spirited blowing and the quartet attacks the bop standard with a voracious improvisatory elán." – Derek Taylor, Cadence Magazine“Grubbs opened the main show by lifting his alto saxophone and exploding into hot Latin riffs of his composition “Bossa.” His fierce blowing on “Saturn,” one of his signature tunes, was a highlight, and “Barbara Dear” featured tenderly blown harmonies by Grubbs on a tune honoring his wife.
– Steve Monroe, Baltimore Jazz Alliance

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