Carl Saunders

An excellent bop trumpeter inspired by Don Fagerquist, Carl Saunders is definitely among the top jazz soloists located in LA, but has recorded much too infrequently to get the popularity he deserves. As an adolescent, he used Stan Kenton (1960) and his uncle Bobby Sherwood (Dave Pell can be an uncle). Saunders found encounter touring with Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Harry Wayne, Buddy High, and Maynard Ferguson (1967), and performed regularly in display bands in NEVADA until shifting to LA in 1984. Since that time, Saunders spent some time working in the studios, performed with the brand new Dave Pell Octet, popped up in lots of local big rings, and lastly, in 1995, documented a Compact disc of his very own for the tiny S&L label.