Mick Carlon

Writer/Narrator

Mick Carlon’s Jazz novels – “Riding Duke’s Train”, “Travels With Louis”, and “Girl Singer” (Leapfrog Press) are now part of the curriculum of more than one hundred schools in the USA, Mexico, France, and Spain. According to the late jazz author Nat Hentoff, “Nothing like Carlon’s books has yet been attempted in the history of jazz. They are introducing a new generation to the glories and stories of our music. A six time speaker at the Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans, Carlon has spoken to teenagers about jazz in New York City, Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Anaheim, Los Angeles, and Paris, France.