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Steve Carrington Quartet at The Side Door Jazz Club

Courtesy of Janm | Posted on March 10, 2015

Where

The Side Door Jazz Club
85 Lyme St
Old Lyme, CT
Map
(860) 434-2600

When

Sat, April 18, 2015
7:30 pm

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STEVE CARRINGTON Quartet – Sat April 18th – Door 7:30 Show 8:30 860-434-0886** www.thesidedoorjazz.com

Born in East Baltimore, Maryland, Steve grew up cultivating a deep love and respect for jazz music, picking up the sax at age seven. He attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, then went on to graduate from Frederick Douglass High. His early influences were John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Grover Washington Jr., Hank Mobley, and Freddie Hubbard.

Following graduation in 1986, Steve was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston. There, he studied with saxophonist Bill Pierce, formerly of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After Berklee, Steve moved to New York, where he played with the Charles Mingus Epitaph, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Hargrove, Milt Hinton, Pharaoh Sanders, plus Frank Wess and Jimmy Heath (at the same time!), among many others....

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