Images - Some Ian Carr, Nucleus and related images

Two new photos of Ian Carr have been generously offered for display on this website by Aki Takeda who took them at the 100 Club in London during the early 1980s. The first shows Ian with fellow trumpeter Henry Lowther taken at a benefit gig for Michael Garrick on 21 September 1980 and the second is of Nucleus with John Marshall on drums and unknown bass player.
Photos kindly supplied by Aki Takeda, uploaded to this site 28 August 2010

On 7th July 2010, Barry Fantoni generously sent this website a sketch of his friend Ian Carr, which he drew from memory on Wednesday 18 February 2009, after visiting Ian for the last time on Monday 16 February 2009, just a few days before Ian passed away. It is a personal and poignant reminder of a great man, who is missed by so many. Click here to view the pdf of this sketch

Ian Carr and John Smallwood in London, circa 1997
Photo kindly supplied by John Smallwood

This rare photo was sent to the website by Brian Smith in April 2010.
It was taken in 1978 by Roger Sellers on Billy Kristian's camera.
It shows from left to right Geoff Castle, Bill Kristian,
Alf Dodd (Nucleus Road Manager and PA Engineer - who was credited
as such on the 'In Flagrante Delicto' album), Brian Smith and Ian Carr.

This photo was sent to this website on 1/3/09 by Brian Smith
Brian Smith; Roger Sellers; Geoff Castle; Ian Carr; Bill Kristian plus persons unidentified
Calcutta, India, February, 1978

This photo was sent to this website on 28/2/09 by Brian Smith and his caption reads:
"This one Muchen,19-1-81 With ChuCho Merchan on bass and Nic France"
Also shown are Geoff Castle (keyboards), Brian Smith (here playing flute) and Ian Carr

This photo was sent to this website on 26/2/09 by Brian Smith who had just been sent it by Bill Kristian.
Ian Carr and Brian Smith...somewhere...mid-1970s

This photo of Ian Carr and Don Rendell, circa 1969 was taken by Jack Goodwin
and is used with his kind permission
Visit Jack's excellent Warne Marsh tribute site at www.warnemarsh.info
or to go there now click here

Ian Carr visiting John Smallwood in Santa Fe, NM USA 1998
Smallwood provided research for the Alyn Shipton biography
Photo kindly supplied by John Smallwood

Rare photograph of Ian Carr with Don Armstrong and Ronnie MacLean at The Pelican Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne, circa 1954.
Photo kindly supplied by P. Drysdale/D. Armstrong. Photographer unknown.

Newcastle photographer Jim Perry had an exhibition of prints at the Sage, Gateshead. These featured jazz in Newcastle in the 1960s and include several of Ian and Mike Carr and the EmCee Five. These unique photographs have been loaded onto Flickr (as at November 2008) and can be viewed here

Nucleus Cargo gig, London, 2005. Photos are now available to view here

Ian Carr on the cover of 'Pop Records' (!) Click here to view this rare piece of Nucleus memorabilia

Click here for a link to a Beat Instrumental article on Ian Carr from November 1972

Click here for a link to an advertisement for Nucleus albums on the Vertigo label which appeared on the cover of Jazz Journal, January 1976

The cover of Jazz Monthly from October 1966 featuring a biographical article on Ian Carr (plus discography) by Brian Priestley is here




The two page major feature on Ian Carr from Il Manifesto (18 September 2004) by Claudio Bonomi


© Photo of Ian Carr, March 2003 by Roger Farbey


© Publicity shot of Nucleus by Nick White and used with his kind permission
From left to right: Dill Katz, Phil Todd, John Marshall, Ian Carr and Mark Wood (1985 line-up)
Nick White's Website

© Publicity shot of Nucleus (1980) by Max Gar supplied by Ian Carr.
From left to right: Ian Carr, Brian Smith, Nic France, Geoff Castle and Chucho Merchan


© Ian Carr - Used with permission of the author

Music Outside by Ian Carr.

Probably the greatest book on contemporary British jazz ever written and a second edition has just been republished by Northway (January 2008) for the first time in 35 years. This new edition includes an additional updating chapter by Roger Cotterrell. Contains excellent photographs and a superb discography. It has been described by King Crimson biographer Sid Smith in his KCNN diary for 14th May 2003 as "a fascinating overview of contemporary jazz in the UK. Importantly, it described the emergence and evolution of a musical vocabulary which wasn't entirely dependent on the USA for its legitimacy". Smith then goes on to say how he managed to track down a copy of 'Music Outside' (he had lost his own copy and had to borrow a copy for his research), however it was for sale for "well over £100"!

 

Cover of Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet Live from Antibes Jazz Festival
Spotlite SPJ-CD 566 - Reproduced with kind permission of Spotlite Jazz

 
Cover of United Jazz and Rock Ensemble CD 'Die Neunte Von United - Live' (The Ninth of United)
with Ian Carr back row 3rd from left
Mood Records - Mood 6472 (1996) - Reproduced with kind permission of Mood Records

...and there are some nice photos of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Paraphernalia and Nucleus (circa 1979-1980),at this site

Every effort is made to seek permission to reproduce the images on this web site - if an image is shown here without permission and if the copyright holder objects we will remove the image immediately

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