Earl Caruthers

Saxophonist Earl Caruthers was from the Kansas Town jazz picture for his whole profession, and recorded most prolifically as an associate from the Jimmie Lunceford music group. He attended senior high school in Kansas Town, Kansas, then researched at close by Fisk College or university. In 1928, still an adolescent, he started gigging using the Benny Moten music group. In the first ’30s he was structured out of St. Louis, using artists such as for example trumpeter Dewey Jackson and pianist Destiny Marable. In 1932, Caruthers became a member of up with Lunceford, keeping devote the saxophone portion of this mighty orchestra until its head passed away in 1947. Following sad passage of Lunceford, Caruthers caused a collaborative group led by Joe Thomas and Ed Wilcox, after that hung using the last mentioned pianist and arranger when Wilcox began up his very own outfit. Caruthers ultimately moved back again to Kansas Town, where he was energetic as an area musician in the ’60s. The Caruthers legacy can be of training course most quickly experienced via the Lunceford discography, and properly therefore, as this head made excellent usage of the reed player’s soloing skills on features like the affectionate “I REALLY LIKE You,” the raucous “Harlem Shout,” as well as the rowdy “Body organ Grinder’s Golf swing.”