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Carol Sudhalter
Carol Sudhalter, flute, baritone sax and tenor sax, moved to New York from Boston in 1978 to join the first all-female Latin band, Latin Fever, which played the 1978 Salsa Festival at Madison Square Garden alongside Tito Puente. [Another of Carol's 'firsts': she was first graduate of Smith College to become a jazz musician.] In 1986 she founded the Astoria Big Band, in which she plays baritone sax. In its present 13-piece formation, the band plays original arrangements by Charlie Camilleri, Stan Bielski, Mickey Tucker, Ray Loring, Keith Gurland, and Carol. The band has received more than 15 Development and Performance Grants from Queens Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Ms. Sudhalter is written up in Leslie Gourse's "Madame Jazz" (Oxford University Press, 1995), as Chapter 12:'Carol Sudhalter: A Role Model'; in Peter Westbrook's forthcoming "The Flute In Jazz: Window on World Music" (Berkeley Hills Books, 2004); and in W. Royal Stokes' "Growing Up With Jazz", published in January, 2005, on Oxford University Press.
From 1991 to 2005, Carol played Sunday Brunch at the Cajun Restaurant, first under the leadership of Jimmy 'The Face' Butts; then, on his passing, under Butts' partner Al 'Doc' Pittman; on Doc's passing in January 2003, Carol stepped into the role of leader, until the club closed and the building was demolished. She has performed in New York at Trumpet's, Pumpkins, Birdland, Danny's Skylite Room, Iridium, Flushing Town Hall, Trumpet's, JVC Jazz Festival, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola (Lincoln Center) and more. She regularly tours Italy, Switzerland and England. Jazz festivals include: JVC Festival; Mary Lou Williams Festival (Kennedy Center, Wash., D.C. 2004); Hartford, CT; Buffalo, NY ("Pine Grill Reunion"); Redbank, NJ; Bethlehem, PA Musikfest, and the following in Europe: Perugia; Villa Celimontana (Rome); Bresso, Umbria, Badia Calavena, Assisi, Ascona, Locarno, and Donne in Musica, Frascati. Notable artists with whom she has played include Etta Jones, Sarah Mclawler, Emme Kemp, Jimmy Mcgriff, Jimmy Heath, Chico Freeman, Tony Scott, Jason Marsalis, Rhoda Scott, Henry Butler, and Lino Patruno.
Carol runs her own booking agency, Mix 'n' Match Music, through which she plays chamber music and trio jazz for weddings and other events, and hires various groups for events as well. Mix n Match Music is written up in radio personality JOAN HAMBURG's book, "CITY WEDDING".
As music producer, she pioneered several jazz series in her home borough of Queens. She founded and developed the Athens Square Park Jazz Mondays series (1998-2001), presenting jazz to local residents.
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Carol Sudhalter: The Octave Tunes
by Donald Elfman
The notes to this thoughtful and beautifully executed disc suggest this is the first collection in which the tunes share the trait of all starting with an octave interval. True, perhaps, but what sets it apart is smart music passionately and intelligently played by musicians committed to the fine art of communication. Carol Sudhalter is a talented multi-reed instrumentalist and her work on tenor, baritone and flute is of a piece--keen on melody, finely proportioned and always ...
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by Jack Bowers
The title of this album, according to leader/woodwind specialist Carol Sudhalter, refers to the fact that each of its thirteen tunes begins on the interval of an octave. Ten of The Octave Tunes' songs are standards, including a pair of holiday favorites, Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" and The Christmas Song." Of the three originals, two were written by Sudhalter's guests, organist Vito Di Modugno ("Pancake Blues") and precocious teen-age pianist Carlo Barile ("Cheeseburger Blue"), who accompanies Sudhalter on ...
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by Andrew Velez
This beautifully orchestrated set showcases Carol Sudhalter, who plays saxophones and flute, in a compilation of four sessions with different musical groupings. It gets off to a jumping, upbeat start with Cedar Walton's Firm Roots, immediately showing off her roots firmly in happy, mainstream swing, Andrea Torozzi's piano providing exhilarating company for the warm tenor sax. What follows is a rarely heard beauty, Victor Young's A Weaver of Dreams, on which Vittorio Sicbaldi's drums provide just the ...
read moreSaxophonist Carol Sudhalter in Second Major Event, November 16th 7PM at Laguardia Performing Arts Center
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
SAXOPHONIST CAROL SUDHALTER IN SECOND MAJOR EVENT NOVEMBER 16 This event, Women Composers of Queens", Nov. 16 at 7 PM at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, is a concert of Sudhalter's own 11-piece Astoria Jazz Band, co-produced by LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Sudhalter, and by 'Circuit Productions' as part of their community outreach series, Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music . Tickets are $13 or $10 for students, seniors and musicians: 718.482.5151. Featured composers include Sarah McLawler, Emme Kemp, ...
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Saxophonist Carol Sudhalter and "Women Composers of Queens" at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, November 16
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
"Women Composers of Queens" at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, is a concert of Sudhalter's own 11-piece Astoria Jazz Band, co-produced by LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Sudhalter, and by Circuit Productions as part of their community outreach series, Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music. Tickets are $13 or $10 for students, seniors and musicians: 718.482.5151 Featured composers include Sarah McLawler, Emme Kemp, Julie Mandel, Jutta Hipp, Billie Holiday and other great women of the classical, jazz and pop worlds. ...
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Ayana Lowe's Jazz Combo Special Guest: Carol Sudhalter Saturday, May 6 55 Bar 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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All About Jazz
AYANA LOWE'S JAZZ COMBO
Special guest: Carol Sudhalter sax/flute
Ayana - vocals Michael Howell - guitar Bob Cunningham- bass Michael Thompson - drums
An evening of blues, jazz and sweet soul music!
SATURDAY, May 6
55 BAR 55 Christopher St (btwn 6& 7th ave- take 1/9 train to Christopher) W. Village! 212 929-9883
6:00-9:00 p.m. (2 sets 6& 7:45)
NO COVER! 2 drink min.
NEW CD, ...
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Carol Sudhalter's 10-Piece Band Presents "Women Composers of Queens" Nov.18 at Jamaica Center for Arts
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All About Jazz
November 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Carol Sudhalter's 10-Piece Band Presents Women Composers of Queens" Nov.18 at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens Queens, NY has a rich jazz tradition, but its jazz women have been less known. A concert on November 18, at 7:00 PM at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, will present works of Queens' women composer / performers from Billie Holiday to Julie ...
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Carol Sudhalter 10-Piece Band Presents "Women Composers of Queens" Nov.18
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All About Jazz
Queens, NY has a rich jazz tradition, but its jazz women have been less known. A concert on November 18 at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave., Queens, will present works of Queens' women composer/ performers from Billie Holiday to Julie Mandel.The late pianist/composer Jutta Hipp, a Blue Note recording artist, has become the subject of much research; organist Sarah McLawler, enjoying over 50 years of travel and performance, played with violinist husband Richard Otto in a ...
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"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
Primary Instrument
Flute
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
Faculty member of Salute To Music, NY Pops, for past ten years. Private flute teacher since 1972, sax and piano since 1985. Beginner level on piano, all levels on flute.
Clinic/Workshop Information
Master class, "English Diction for Singers", for Italian jazz singers who perform in English. Lessons include discussion of meaning of lyrics, proper diction and separation of words, and where to place emphasis in a word or phrase. One to three hours.