ONE LP PORTRAITS: MUSICIANS: G - L: GREG CARROLL: Greg Carroll: Musician, CEO American Jazz Museum

{quote}My One LP is Pyramid - first because Mllt Jackson is the quintessential vibraphonist - he plays the most unbelievably beautiful version of Django I've ever heard. When I first heard that record I fell in love with his playing - it was of my first records where I ever heard Bags play.
I immediately fell in love with it and I immediately tried to emulate his playing, that's when I was beginning to play vibes and I said {quote}I'm going to learn every note this man's playing.{quote} 
Still to this day I haven't done it because every note that he plays is so carefully crafted and it's hard to recapture that - it's a pyramid – a pinnacle and I think it really represents the Modern Jazz Quartet.{quote}Greg Carroll, Aladdin Hotel, Kansas City MO. May 2013Greg CarrollModern Jazz Quartet: Pyramid 1959 - 1960American Jazz Museum
Greg Carroll: Musician, CEO American Jazz Museum, Modern Jazz Quartet: Pyramid

 

"My One LP is Pyramid - first because Mllt Jackson is the quintessential vibraphonist - he plays the most unbelievably beautiful version of Django I've ever heard.  

When I first heard that record I fell in love with his playing - it was of my first records where I ever heard Bags play. 


I immediately fell in love with it and I immediately tried to emulate his playing, that's when I was beginning to play vibes and I said "I'm going to learn every note this man's playing."  


Still to this day I haven't done it because every note that he plays is so carefully crafted and it's hard to recapture that - it's a pyramid – a pinnacle and I think it really represents the Modern Jazz Quartet." 

Greg Carroll, Aladdin Hotel, Kansas City MO. May 2013 

Greg Carroll 

Modern Jazz Quartet: Pyramid 1959 - 1960 

American Jazz Museum