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About Me

Bryan Carter has become one of the young forces in the Chicago jazz community. Beginning his musical journey at the age of three, Carter quickly developed his love of music and began to study the Violin and the Drums. By the age of ten he was performing with community high school all-star bands and attending prestigious music camps. Carter has performed or recorded with Jon Faddis, Clark Terry, Kirk Whalum, Terrell Stafford, Bobby Watson and many more. He has also performed at Lima Peru Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, South Shore Jazz Festival, African Jazz Festival, and the Iowa City Jazz Festival as well as being a two time IAJE Leadership Award recipient. He has participated in the 2007 Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony, 2007 Vail Jazz Colony as well as being selected to the 2008 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensembles. In the fall Bryan will be attending The Juilliard School in New York City.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/20/2007
Band Website: BRYANCARTERMUSIC.COM
Band Members: BRYAN CARTER, GABE MEDD, ADAM KROMELOW, ADAM LARSON, SAM SELLINGER
Influences: Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Louie Bellson, Carl Allen, Ed Thigpen, Herlin Riley, Lewis Nash, Winard Harper, Sonny Payne, Billy Higgens, Rodrigo Villanueva and all that love music.
Sounds Like: Bryan Carter I Hope!!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

This Summer

Hello Readers, I am writing this blog on my cell phone while watching Martin Medeski and Wood at the Iowa City Jazz Festival. The weather has been beautiful here all week, but the damage from the f...
Posted by Bryan Carter on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:08:00 PST

Grammy Jazz Combo

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (Dec. 14, 2007) The GRAMMY Foundation® announced today that 30 talented high school students from across North America have been selected for positions in the 2008 Gibson/Baldwi...
Posted by Bryan Carter on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:51:00 PST

The Summer

Wow, I haven't written a blog in a while. It feels like the summer has passed fast!!! I've been working extremely hard this summer. I was accepted to the Vail Jazz Workshop and Brubeck Summer Jazz Col...
Posted by Bryan Carter on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:10:00 PST

New Myspace

I saw other young musicians creating two profiles. One for personal use, and the other for buisness. I had to follow suit.
Posted by Bryan Carter on Mon, 21 May 2007 06:19:00 PST