Biography
Baikida Carroll ranks among the more skilled accompanists and ensemble players in jazz, contributing distinctive textures, hues, and vivid improvisations to numerous free jazz outfits, notably including St. Louis's Black Artists' Group (BAG). As a prolific composer, he has crafted scores for films while showcasing a bold, robust tonal quality and improvisational style. His studies took him to Southern Illinois University as well as the Armed Forces School of Music, after which he assumed leadership of BAG's free jazz ensemble. In the mid-1970s, he traveled to Europe alongside fellow members, including a recording session held in Paris during 1974. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Carroll appeared on recordings by Oliver Lake, Michael Gregory Jackson, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jack DeJohnette, and David Murray; additionally, he issued a solo project toward the end of the 1970s and led his own group in the early 1980s. His 1994 date for Soul Note presented him effectively alongside a quintet. Thereafter, Carroll has remained active through performances and instruction, highlighted by the well-received Marionettes on a High Wire, issued by OmniTone in 2001.
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