The benefit evening for Alzheimer’s charities, celebrating the life of Ian Carr, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 23rd February, raised £7,000, significantly more than budgeted.
The performance of Northumbrian Sketches from the concert was recorded by Jazz on 3, and will be broadcast on April 19th.
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Meanwhile, for all things Ian Carr, there’s one place to go:
Roger Farbey’s (NEW!!) Ian Carr site.
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Alyn Shipton has written in by Facebook:
“All the proceeds of sales of my bio of Ian at the event were donated by Equinox to the Alzheimer fund, I was gutted to be in the U.S. on the day of the concert.”
A great man who did a lot to help other musicians as well as, sorry, blow his own trumpet. I'll never forget the Ian Carr/Don Rendell and Nucleus groups which were an inspiration to me as an adolescent or his Melody Maker journalism, the Miles bio and so much more. RIP