Doug Carn Jazz Tour

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About Doug Carn Jazz Tour

The Legendary Doug Carn’s bio is ACTUALLY his eclectic body of work which comprises of 11 albums, a few singles/EP’s, a number of compilations and over 30 appearances on projects of fellow musicians and over 85 credits for contributions to projects of other artist.

Albums
• INFANT EYES released in 1971 Black Jazz Label
• DOUG CARN featuring the vocals of JEAN CARN – SPIRIT of a NEW LAND released in 1972
Black Jazz label
• DOUG CARN featuring the vocals of JEAN CARN - REVELATION released in 1973 Black Jazz label
• DOUG CARN’s – ADAM’s APPLE released 1974 Black Jazz label
• ABDUL RAHIM IBRAHIM (formerly Doug Carn) released in 1977 Tablighi Records
• DOUG CARN with vocals by TERRI DAVIS released in 1990 Monument Records
• WHAT HAPPENED to JR? Obie Jessie, Oscar Brashear, DOUG CARN, Billy Higgins, Bennie Maupin
The Hines Co/Solar released in 1993
• IN A MELLOW TONE released 1995 Lighthouse Records
• A NEW INCENTIVE “FIRM ROOTS” released in 2001 Black Jazz label
• MY SPIRIT released in 2015 Doodin Records
• DOUG CARN, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad – Jazz is Dead 5 released in 2020 Jazz Is Dead label

Singles/EP’s
• MOONCHILD released in 1971
• SURATAL IHKLAS/ TROPICAL SONS released in 1990 Heavenly Sweetness label

Compilations
• DOUG & JEAN CARN – HIGHER GROUND released in 1976 Ovations Records
• THE BEST of DOUG CARN Universal Sound released 1976
• IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR COMPILATION 1 - Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Roy Aryes, Gary Bartz, Brian
Jackson, Joao Donato, DOUG CARN, Azymuth, Marcos Valle release in 2020 Jazz Is Dead Label

Appearances
* EARTH, WIND & FIRE (Debut) issued in 1970 Warner Brother's Records
* THE NEED FOR LOVE (EW&F) issued in 1971 Warner Brother's Records
* SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK. issued in 1974 A&M Records
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES
* BONGO BOP DR LONNIE SMITH, DOUG CARN, JOEY DEFRANSICO, RUBEN WILSON issued in 1996 HIP-BOP LABEL
(ESSENCE ALL-STARS)
* CURTIS FULLER-KEEP IT SIMPLE issued in 2005 Savant

and actually this is just the tip of the Creative Iceberg known as Doug Carn but for those who enjoy a more
traditional bio …… read on;


Doug Carn is a Legendary Jazz Musician, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, composer/arranger, and producer. He is best known for his recordings on the Black Jazz label between 1971 and 1973, which includes Infant Eyes, Spirit of the New Land, and Revelation.
These recordings, and 1974's Adam's Apple, are considered classics for their signature meld of spiritual jazz, progressive soul, post-bop, and improvisation. He converted to Islam, and in 1977 issued the jazz-funk outing Al Rahman! Cry of the Floridian Tropic Son, on which he mixed his African American musical roots in soul and jazz with facets of Muslim culture.

In 1990, he resumed recording as a leader on Virgo with vocalist Terri Davis.
In 2001, he issued A New Incentive: Firm Roots on the reinvigorated Black Jazz label. Carn formed the West Coast Organ Band and issued the live My Spirit and Free for All in 2015 and 2019, respectively.
In 2020, he teamed with producer/instrumentalists Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge to release the collaborative Doug Carn JID005.
also inspired by three legendary African-Americans – Dr. Martin Luther King, John Coltrane and Muhammad Ali – Carn had written lyrics for music composed by Coltrane, McCoy Tyner and Wayne Shorter.

Carn was born in Harlem Hospital, Harlem, NY in 1948 but raised in St Augustine, Florida. His earliest musical influences included his mother, who taught music in the St Augustine, FL area’s public school and was a formidable pianist and organist who had gigged with Dizzy Gillespie and was close to Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott. Further influencing him was an uncle who was a jazz DJ and an aunt who taught him to play boogie woogie on the piano's black keys when he was three.
As a child and young teen, he was deeply influenced by the hard-swinging sounds of blues-based jump bands from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind that followed in the wake of Ray Charles' student tenure there. Carn studied winds, reeds, organ, and piano in high school and played in the band. He led a group called the Nu-Tones, who played a variety of dances, proms, and club dates during high school. And on occasion they would back traveling acts such as Little Willie John or open for groups including the "5" Royales and the Chantels. After graduation, Carn furthered his music studies at Jacksonville State University for two years, majoring in oboe and composition. He completed his degree at Georgia State College in 1969.

Over the next few years, Carn's ability on the Hammond B-3 organ grew exponentially, since he literally sat at the feet of virtually every traveling jazz organ master who toured Florida.
Deeply influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the Black cultural revolution, his music took on political and spiritual characteristics without forsaking soul.
Carn was an in-demand sideman at home and signed to Savoy before he was 18. His debut album, The Doug Carn Trio, was issued in 1969. Doug’s inspirations included Horace Silver, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and others thus inspiring his move to Southern California in 1970 and into an apartment building that also housed Earth Wind & Fire, Mandrill, the Chambers Brothers, and Janis Joplin.
In time a collaboration developed with Earth, Wind & Fire, with Doug contributing to the band's first two albums for Warner Bros. in 1971.
That same year, Carn signed a deal with Gene Russell's Black Jazz label and issued Infant Eyes with a sextet that included bassist Henry Franklin, drummer Michael Carvin, and saxophonist George Harper. The set was an underground hit that reached the lower rungs of the charts. They followed with the more expansive Spirit of the New Land in 1972, which featured flugelhornist Charles Tolliver, drummer Alphonse Mouzon, and trombonist Garnett Brown.
While Carn wrote four of the set's six tracks, the album also included innovative readings of Miles Davis' "Blue in Green" and Lee Morgan's "Search for the New Land." It charted even higher, placing in the upper rungs of the jazz charts at Cashbox, and expanded the Carn’s' fan base overseas.
The 1973's Revelation release featured six of Carn's compositions and well-received covers of Coltrane's "Naima," McCoy Tyner's "Contemplation," and Rene McClean's "Jihad." McClean also played saxophone on the set alongside trumpeter/vocalist Olu Dara, bassist Walter Booker, guitarist Nathan Page, and others. By the time Carn released the seminal, internationally charting Adam's Apple in 1974,he had already made his debut at Carnegie Hall and played a gig at the Village Vanguard that boasted its largest audience up to that point.
That same year, he played on Melvin Van Peebles' A&M album As Serious as a Heart-Attack.

In 1990, in association with vocalist Terri Davis and a jazz quartet, Carn independently issued Virgo, recorded by Jacquire King. Carn toured with Davis and continued working and collaborating with a variety of artist. In 1995, he re-emerged with, “In a Mellow Tone”, a collection of standards done in his inimitable style. 1996 saw his profile rise again with the Soul Jazz/Universal Sound compilations Higher Ground: The Best of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976 and The Best of Doug Carn. He then toured the U.K. and Europe with his own band. In 1997, he was one of four organists on the Essence All Stars' Bongo bop; the others included Joey DeFrancesco, Lonnie Smith, and Reuben Wilson. Idris Muhammad, Jorge Sylvester, and Michael Urbaniak.

In 2001, Carn released A New Incentive: Firm Roots on the briefly reinvigorated Black Jazz label; the set drew rave reviews from across the global jazz community. He also continued to work in the studio and on the road with a wide range of artists. In 2003, he was recruited for producer/DJ Carl Craig's Detroit Experiment. The following year, he contributed two compositions to Intuit's self-titled debut and played on it. He played piano on trombonist Curtis Fuller's Savant 2005 release “Keep It Simple”. In 2010, he was the organist on drummer Cindy Blackman Santana’s, “Another Lifetime”, a tribute to the Tony Williams Lifetime and worked in Wallace Roney's electric Davis tribute band. That year, he and Jean began working together again. They started playing small U.S.-based dates, but by 2012 were headlining weekend dates at Ronnie Scott's in London, Jazz at the Lincoln Center, The Iridium in N.Y.C., and the Savannah Jazz Festival. Carn also found time to play on Roney's modal fusion date Home.

In addition to his occasional touring dates with Jean, Carn formed a new quartet called Doug Carn & the West Coast Organ Band with saxophonists Teodross Avery and Howard Wiley, and drummer Deszon Claiborne. They issued the acclaimed live album “My Spirit” in 2015. Carn performed at the Aretha Franklin Memorial Concert in 2018 in Detroit where he led Franklin's band in a reading of her 1973 hit "Until You Come Back to Me." The following year, his West Coast Organ Band issued “Free for All”; their second outing on Doodlin', the set garnered some of the most complimentary reviews of his career.
In 2020, Carn teamed with producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalists Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Though they were toddlers when the pianist issued his seminal Black Jazz sides, the two were nonetheless deeply influenced by those recordings when creating their jazz-funk/noir/hip-hop hybrid. They co-wrote and cut 11 original tracks with a cast of studio players at Linear Labs Studios. It was issued as Doug Carn JID005 in December.

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