New Orleans birthed rock and roll. It may have been conceived elsewhere, but the Crescent City was the place where all the ingredients — funk, soul, R&B, blues, gospel, and jazz — were commingled into a steaming cauldron, left to […]
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After years of toiling in obscurity, tenor saxophonist/vocalist Jimmy Carpenter’s musical internship has finally blossomed into full-fledged doctorhood. After road dawgin’ with The Alkaphonics in the ’80s and Charlie Pastorfield in the ’90s, Carpenter toured with Atlanta guitarist Tinsley Ellis […]
Despite blowing his lips off and his brains out for three decades, by 2008 tenor saxman Jimmy Carpenter felt like he was toiling in obscurity. His first solo record that year – titled Toiling in Obscurity – helped pull him out […]
When Jimmy Carpenter was first starting out, the number of girls who flocked around him when he played prompted a jealous local promoter to bemoan the fact that Carpenter had too many girlfriends. Thirty years later, it appears that’s still […]
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