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Doug Carn - Infant Eyes

by Doug Carn

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Despite progress in civil rights, African-Americans in the early 1970s had it tough with segregation in schools, few employment opportunities and lots else. Doug Carn reacted to the times by creating a personalized strain of jazz music that expressed a loving hopefulness, He found a home at the Black Jazz label, where African-Americans called the shots and, of course, racial tension was nonexistent..

Who was this 22-year-old whose first album, Infant Eyes, sold very well away from the machinations of the music industry? Once a child prodigy on piano and alto saxophone, Carn had attended Jacksonville University on a full music scholarship and afterwards performed on the Florida-Georgia roadhouse circuit with a band that mixed jazz, rock and r&b. Following his muse to Los Angeles, he worked in an organ trio and studied with organ and piano player Larry Young, who had co-founded the seminal jazz-rock band Tony Williams’ Lifetime and recorded an excellent mid 1960s hard-bop record titled Unity, among other things. A devout Muslim, Young (Khalid Yasin) surely deepened Carn’s appreciation of John Coltrane’s 1964 album, A Love Supreme, that stunning merger of musicality and spirituality.

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released February 4, 2014

Personnel
Doug Carn: Piano, Electric Piano, Organ
Jean Carn: Vocals
George Harper: Tenor Sax & Flute
Bob Frazier: Trumpet & Flugelhorn
Henry Franklin: Bass
Al Hall, Jr.: Trombone
Micheal Carvin: Drums

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