Carol Stearns Sudhalter (January 5, 1943) is an American Jazz saxophonist.

Biography

Sudhalter grew up in a musical family: Her father Albert played the alto saxophone in the New England area with the bands of Herbie Marsh,

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and others. Her brothers and other relatives were also musicians. Richard Sudhalter, nicknamed "Dick", the oldest brother, played trumpet/cornet and wrote award-winning books on Jazz history. Middle brother James played baritone saxophone and formed and ran a ’twist’ band.

Musical career

In the early nineteen-sixties Sudhalter began to play flute while majoring in biology at Smith College. She continued to study flute with private teachers in Washington DC, New York, Boston, Israel and Italy until 1978. She studied theory and

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music with

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and Phil Wilson at the

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. From the nineteen-seventies on she has been teaching piano, saxophone and flute privately, at

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, and for the New York Pops Salute to Music Program. In 1975 she decided to take up saxophone, and in 1978 relocated from Boston to NYC to join the first all-women Latin band, Latin Fever, produced by

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. In 1986 she founded the Astoria Big Band. She has performed with Sarah McLawler,

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, Duffy Jackson and other celebrities, and played in renowned NYC Jazz clubs as well as domestic, Italian and British Jazz festivals. She initiated the ‘Jazz Monday’ concerts at Athens Square Park between 1989 and 2001, along with several other local festivals in Queens, NY, where she resides. Sudhalter is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association. She was written up in Leslie Gourse's MADAME JAZZ (Oxford University Press, 1997) as Chapter 14: "Carol Sudhalter: A Role Model" as well as in W. Royal Stokes' "Growing Up With Jazz" (Oxford University Press, 2005). More articles were recently published in THE HUFFINGTON POST, The Queens Council on the Arts and on local802afm.org. In 2012 Carol Sudhalter was nominated for the 2012 International

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Readers’ Jazz Poll, and was voted 9th place in the category "best Jazz Flutist".Queens Chronicle, November 15, 2012 by Josey Bartlett

Discography (as a leader)

Discography (as a "sideman")

External links

Official Website & Blog

all.about.jazz

jazz.com

References

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