{{short description|American jazz musician}} {{Redirect|Scoops Carey|the baseball player|Scoops Carey (baseball)}}
{{Infobox musical artist | name = Scoops Carry | birth_name = George Dorman | alias = Scoops Carey | birth_date = January 23, 1915 | birth_place = Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. | death_date = August 4, 1970 (aged 55) | death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | genre = Jazz | instruments = Alto saxophone, clarinet }} '''Scoops Carry''' (January 23, 1915 – August 4, 1970), born '''George Dorman''' and sometimes billed as '''Scoops Carey''',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kvImwPArpeYC&dq=jesse+miller+trumpet&pg=PA21 Gourse, Leslie (2009) ''Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan'', p. 21. Da Capo Press] At Google Books. Retrieved 6 July 2013.</ref> was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lambert|first=Eddie|date=20 January 2002|title=Carry, Scoops [George Dorman ]|url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-2000076500|website=Grove Music Online|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J076500 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}</ref>
== Early life and education == Carry was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His mother was a music teacher, and his brother, Ed Carry, was a Chicago-based bandleader and guitarist in the 1920s and 1930s. He started on horn at age eight, later studying at the Chicago Musical College and the University of Iowa. After his tenure with Hines, Carry left music and entered law school in 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scoops Carry Biography, Songs, & Albums |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/scoops-carry-mn0001009900/biography |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Carry worked with Cassino Simpson, the Midnight Revellers, and Boyd Atkins's Firecrackers in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
In 1931, he played with Lucky Millinder in RKO theater palaces.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McClellan |first=Lawrence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oit7y0bS4MUC&dq=Scoops+Carry+Lucky+Millinder&pg=PA178 |title=The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955 |date=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30157-5 |language=en}}</ref> He reunited with his brother in 1932, and the pair co-led an orchestra through the middle of the 1930s. Following this, Scoops played with Zutty Singleton, Fletcher Henderson, and Roy Eldridge; in 1938 he was with Art Tatum, and in 1939 with Horace Henderson. At the end of the decade he worked briefly with Darnell Howard before joining Earl Hines's band in 1940.
Carry remained in Hines's employ until 1946, working with him in both large and small ensemble settings. After graduating from law school, he worked in the office of the Illinois state attorney.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Company |first=Johnson Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTgDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Scoops+Carry+Lucky+Millinder&pg=PA19 |title=Jet |date=1970-08-20 |publisher=Johnson Publishing Company |language=en}}</ref>
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