The Carson Barnes Quartet comes to Malone University

Carson Barnes grew up in a musical family and began playing the clarinet at the age of twelve.  At nineteen, he learned to play the flute and the tenor saxophone while studying at the Community School of Music in San Francisco and at San Francisco State University. Barnes studied with a host of west coast jazz musicians including Gabrielle Stern, Bishop Norman Williams, Julius Ellerbee and others.

He has played professionally with Kwane and the Kwanditos, a Latin band that played the music of Tito Puente and the Mongo Santamaria. Kwane and the Kwanditos has played on the same bill as Tower of Power and the Doobie Brothers at the Fillmore West Auditorium and at other venues around San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Barnes began leading his own band and working with popular jazz musicians including Eddie Henderson, Calvin Keyes, Bill Jackson, Chuck Hester, and Al White. Since moving back to the Midwest, Barnes continues to play the tenor saxophone and compose around Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York with accomplished musicians including John Mosley, who toured and recorded with vibraphonist Roy Ayers. Carson also collaborates with pianist and organist Eddie Baccus of Cleveland, who was an important part of the rhythm section for the late Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

The Carson Barnes Quartet will perform a concert of standards by John Coltrane, Roberta Flack, Dave Brubeck, and Oscar Hammerstein.