Pat Carey (musician)

Pat Carey
Background information
Genres Blues, Jazz, Canadian jazz, Canadian blues
Occupation(s) Musician, saxophonist, vocalist
Instruments Saxophone, clarinet
Years active 1980s–present
Associated acts Downchild Blues Band
Jazz Navigators
Lou Pinto
Maple Blues Revue
The Hogtown All Stars
Raoul and the Big Time
Sophia Perlman and the Vipers
Chuck Jackson's Allstars
Bradley and the Bouncers
Website patcarey.ca
Notable instruments
Baritone saxophone, Tenor saxophone

Pat Carey is an award-winning Canadian baritone and tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, vocalist and is best known for his longstanding association with the Downchild Blues Band.[1]

Biography[2]

Pat Carey, originally from The Pas, Manitoba, was born into a musical family. At the age of six he began his early musical learning studying the piano, which would lead him to start learning the saxophone by age thirteen. He earned a degree in music, with a Major in Performance from the University of Manitoba[3]from 1977 to 1982. Carey during those years went on to perform with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra[4]sharing the stage with many of the visiting jazz greats. In 1979, Carey would partner with Tom Jestadt, noted Canadian drummer and would form the Pat Carey and Tom Jestadt Jazz Quartet. Carey would then join Rocki Rolletti, the group went on to win the TransCanada Rock Contest in 1982 which secured them a recording session with producer Bob Ezrin. Working for many years as a studio musician, Carey would make several recordings for CBC TV, CBC RADIO, CKY TV and CKND TV. While still a member of the Rocki Rolletti, he would get to open for the Reunion of The Guess Who. Carey found himself being featured on numerous jingles, radio and TV shows for CBC, CTV and Global Television.

In 1984 Carey moved to Toronto, Ontario where he has continued as a working musician and music teacher. In 1984 he would perform with George Olliver and the Gang Buster, Tony Flaim and with Hock Walsh of Downchild. From 1984 - 1989, he was the Entertainment Director for Madame’s Restaurant in Toronto. In 1985 Carey would join the Downchild Blues Band and has continued to play and record with the band since that time, in addition to contributing to the work of other musicians. While with Downchild, Carey would be a member of the Labatt Double Blues Band from 1986 until 1989. Then with the elite of what Carey considered to be the prime pick of musical talent, he fulfilled his dream of sharing his musical skills in the forming and leading of his own band, the Jazz Navigators.[5]

Carey is a multiple Maple Blues Award winner, as horn player of the year and a multiple Juno Award winner. His distinguished musical career was so honoured by the Juno Awards as early as 1991 and with the Maple Blues Award beginning in 1999. The Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands for artistic and technical achievements in music. The Maple Blues Awards are Canada's equivalent of The Blues Music Awards formerly the W.C. Handy Awards that take place yearly in Memphis.

Over the years, Carey has been an integral part of many Canadian recordings, he would co-produce three of Downchild's CD's, with Come On In being nominated in 2004 for a Juno Award. Carey and the Jazz Navigators would record their first CD Starlight in 2002, in 2007 would follow the release of their second CD South By Southeast and in 2008 they would release Jumpin in Jersey. In addition to his recordings, Carey has performed with Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, Buddy Guy, Sam Moore, Little Anthony, The Drifters, Tommy Roe, Ron Hynes, Powder Blues Band, Dan Aykroyd, Junior Watson, Steamboat Willie, Lesley Gore, Colin James, Lionel Hampton just to name a few, as well as in Israel and Cypress for the Canadian Armed Forces and toured in Europe, North America and Scandinavia. Carey has recorded with Downchild, Gary Kendall Band, Maple Blues Revue, Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne, Rita Chiarelli, Raoul and The Big Time, Heidi Lange, Ray Edge, Fathead, New Millennium Orchestra, amongst others.[6] When not performing with Downchild, Carey continues to perform with local bands, the Hogtown All Stars, Lou Pinto, Maple Blues Revue, Raoul and the Big Time, Sophia Perlman and the Vipers, Chuck Jackson's Allstars and Bradley and the Bouncers.

A diverse group of Canadian musicians and business people would form the Iridescent Music Company, in 2002, which Carey became the President and Director of Music Production and Promotion Jazz and Blues.[7] With this new company his next project would be an all-original Jazz CD featuring many of the greatest Canadian Jazz musicians.

Awards and recognition

Discography

With Downchild Blues Band

Pat Carey's Jazz Navigators

Rita Chiarelli

Chuck Jackson

Gary Kendall

Maple Blues Revue

Raoul and The Big Time

Others


References

  1. ↑ "Pat Carey". Downchild Blues Band. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pat Carey". Iridescent Music Company. Iridescent Music Company. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "University of Manitoba".
  4. ↑ "Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra".
  5. ↑ "The Jazz Navigators/Bio Pat Carey". The Rex Jazz and Blues Bar. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Biography". Pat Carey. Pat Carey. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  7. ↑ Feeney, Carol. "valentine day show". Belleville Intelligencer. Belleville Intelligencer. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Can You Hear The Music". Juno Awards. Juno Awards. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Maple Blues Awards Archives". Toronto Blues Society. Retrieved August 26, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Pat Carey". Maple Blues Revue. Retrieved August 28, 2015.

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