Known for his hard-charging and soulful post-bop style of playing, saxophonist Paul Carr upholds the important tradition of the Texas tenor. Growing up, he played with saxophonists Don Wilkerson, Arnett Cobb and the fabled educator Conrad Johnson. After two years at Texas Southern University, Carr completed his degree in music performance at Howard University in Washington, DC.
His 1993 recorded debut as a leader, PC10 on Jazz Karma Records received critical praise from The Washington Post, The Houston Post, and USA Today, as well as magazines including DownBeat, Cadence, and JazzTimes. Since PC10, Carr has appeared on over 25 other recordings as a sideman.
Carrs strong commitment to jazz is most evident in his role as an educator. After over 20 years of teaching privately, Carr launched the Jazz Academy of Music, Inc., a non-profit corporation dedicated to advancing and preserving jazz through jazz education. The Academy holds year-round workshops and a summer camp where Carr and a staff of local musicians teach high school students the principles of improvisation, small group, and big band playing.
Many of his students have been selected for state, and national jazz groups including the Maryland All-State Jazz Ensemble, the IAJE Clifford Brown Fellows, and the Gibson/Baldwin Grammy High School Jazz Ensemble. His students have been accepted to jazz programs at Julliard, Eastman, The New England Conservatory, The Manhattan School of Music, and The New School.
After a 13-year hiatus from recording as a leader, Carr recently returned to the studio to complete his second album on Jazz Karma Records, Just Noodlin, featuring world-renowned trumpeter Terrell Stafford, a longtime friend.
Since arriving in Washington over twenty years ago, Carr has performed regularly on the local scene at venues including Blues Alley, Twins Jazz, Takoma Station, and the now-defunct One Step Down. He has also been a repeat performer at The White House, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, and The Corcoran Gallery of Arts jazz series. He has toured South America, Europe, and the Middle East and has shared the stage with George Colligan, Kent Jordan, Eddie Henderson, Charles Fambrough, Gary Bartz, Shirley Scott, Branford Marsalis, Steve Wilson, Tim Warfield, Terrell Stafford, and Wynton Marsalis, among many others.
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