McConnell Arts Center: Tom Carroll & Andy Carlson

Music type: Jazz, guitar and violin
Tom Carroll has served on Denison University Music faculty since 1980 as the instructor of guitar and coordinator of Jazz Studies since 2000.  An affiliate artist with the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus, Carroll has performed at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., the Mansfield Jazz Festival, the Jazz-On-The-Green in Parkersburg, W.Va., and the Columbus Jazz and Ribs Fest.  He has coordinated the Denison Jazz Guitar Festival for a number of years and also is organizer of the Granville Blues Fest. 
His first recording as leader was “City Lights,” featuring Hank Marr, Gary Carney and Jim Rupp.  A second “live” album was released in 2002.  Besides leading his own trio, Carroll has performed with Louis Bellson, Jack McDuff, Rusty Bryant, Hank Marr, Bobby Pierce, Jimmy Heath, Ernie Watts, Frank Foster, Cal Collins, Gene Bertoncini and Howard Alden.  Tom now can be heard around Columbus playing with Andy Carlson in his rockabilly band Lay-Z-Boy and the Recliners.


Andy Carlson is currently on faculty at Denison University where he teaches classical violin and bluegrass while leading the Bluegrass Ensemble and the University Orchestra. With the Georgia State Fiddling Championship and the Ohio Grand Fiddler Champion titles under his belt, Andy was also the recipient of the Iowa Performance Fellowship and the Pelzer Competition Fellowship. As a studio musician and string arranger he has recorded for Warner Bros., Atlantic, Elektra and Polydor. He plays
a wide range of music, including traditional old-time Appalachian, bluegrass, swing, blues, “new” grass, classical and contemporary acoustic.


This concert is presented in coordination with the Ohio Fingerstyle Guitar Club.