McCartyArt Biography


















Madame Hortense (Joseph Jefferson Award) 1977 Body Politic, Chicago 1983 New Federal Theatre, New York City 1994 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Recollection Rag (The Exchange) (Hoyt W. Fuller One-Act Play Festival Award) 1981 Quaigh Theatre, New York City 1995-1996 Gallery Productions and at Java Jeff's, Pittsburgh; Romanian Cultural Center, New York, International House, New York 1997 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 2000-2001 Aired on PBS station WQED-TV, Pittsburgh A Window To Home 1996 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Closing Notice 1996 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh the...Hex 1998 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Life After Coma 2001 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Outrun The Rain 2003 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Top The Separate Vacation 1976 Belcrest Theatre, Chicago Love Spirit! 1976 11th Street Theatre, Chicago 1985 E.T.A., Chicago 1992 Del’s Down Under, New York City 1997 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh A Cosmic Night 1985 E.T.A., Chicago 1999 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Brazilian Rendezvous 1989 E.T.A., Chicago And So I Sing 1993 The Den At Lolabelle, New York City La Cave On First, New York City Adelaides, New York City Give Us Another Tune 2002 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh The Region 2002 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Aired on cable TV, Pittsburgh Top I Dreamt I Dwelt In Bloomingdales 1970 Provincetown Playhouse, New York City Storyville I 1973 Foothills Theatre, Worcester, Massachusetts Viva Vaudeville 1980 Foothills Theatre, Worcester, Massachusetts Memo From A Mad Producer 1981 Foothills Theatre, Worcester, Massachusetts Dinah! Queen of the Blues (Co-conceived with Sasha Dalton) 1983 The Ballroom, New York City 1984 Westside Arts, New York City 1985 Kentucky Center For The Arts, Louisville The Regal 1985 E.T.A., Chicago If Blues Was A Dolla' 1985 E.T.A., Chicago Deadwood Dick 1986 E.T.A., Chicago 1997 E.T.A., Chicago Checkmates 1986 E.T.A., Chicago 1986 LA Community Theatre, LA 1987 Westwood Theatre, Beverly Hills 2001 New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Hang Tough 1987 E.T.A., Chicago Rouge & Lace 1988 Goodson Theatre, New York City The Spirit Moves (starring Tony Award winner, Trazana Beverley) 1986 Civic Opera House, Chicago 1988 Baltimore Museum of Art 1990 E.T.A., Chicago 1995 Manhattan Community College, New York City TriBeCa Performing Arts Center, New York City Papa's Child 2000-2004 E.T.A., Chicago The Black Chief 2002 Chicago State University 2003 DuSable Museum, Chicago Top 1969 Deadly Vengeance - Grace Jones film For Artscope Ltd. 1969 Borden's - industrial film 1976 Black Life - WMAQ TV, Chicago (Score/Music) 1977 On Q - WMAQ TV, Chicago (Theme/Music) 1986 Martin Luther King Suite (NBC-TV nominated and won Emmy) 1987 Pages of the Heart - film for HBO 1987 New York Power Company - four industrial films 1991 Housing With A Heart - film for Enterprise Foundation 2000 Papa's Child - (Score/Music) produced by E.T.A., Chicago The Black Chief - (Score/Music) produced at University of Chicago 2003 Recollection Rag (Film Score/Music) Top 1969 Meadowgold Dairies (music) 1973 Bit-O-Honey (produced, wrote music, animation), featuring Valerie Simpson of Ashford & Simpson Top Oscar Brown, Jr. Odetta Gloria Gaynor Buddy Greco Ja'net DuBois Noel Harrison Top 1970 -1975 Bassist with Erroll Garner 1970 Gemini album on bass on London Records with Erroll Garner 1976 Appeared in Girl From U.N.C.L.E. episode Played bass in Dudley Moore's BBC In Great Britain TV show Played bass with Erroll Garner Trio for Clint Eastwood film Play Misty For Me Appeared in Where The Girls Are TV show starring Noel Harrison Stephanie Powers and Barbara McNair 1980 John Sebastian's Carnegie Hall concert, on piano 1981 Featured performer on camera - Michelob TV commercial - national Appeared playing bass guitar in Latoya Jackson's video - You're Gonna Git Rocked! 1983 Interviewed on Erroll Garner Tribute - Gil Noble's Like It Is 1984 Appears in photographic study, mentioned throughout book, entire chapter devoted to McCarty interview in Erroll Garner - The Most Happy Piano - by Jim Doran, Scarecrow Press 1994-present Interviewed on Chris Moore's Black Horizons (WQED-TV), Black Talk, KDKA-TV with Lynne Hayes-Freeland, WDUQ with Evelynn Hawkins; On-Q (WQED-TV), with Chris Moore, Bev Smith Talkshow (BET-Radio), among others 1994-present Bassist with The Boilermaker Jazz Band (appearances world wide) 1996-present Bassist on The Boilermaker Jazz Band CDs, BioGraph Records Heinz Hall appearance - Marvin Hamlisch and The Pittsburgh Pops, with The Boilermaker Jazz Band, on bass 1998 Featured interview for The Journal of the Erroll Garner Club by Tim Clausen 1999 Pianist and composer/arranger Someone You Want To Love CD, co-producer 2000 Co-Producer/Musical Director Evening with Theresa Davis and Ernest McCarty presented at E.T.A., Chicago With Theresa Davis on WQED-TV's On Q in Pittsburgh, hosted by Chris Moore, Carol Lee Espy and Stacy Smith Apple Computer iMac.com commercial - shown nationally and in Canada 2001 Principal on camera as "The Reverend" in Kings Family Restaurant commercial - shown regionally Pianist, bassist, composer/arranger and producer The Real Me Top 1999 Co-Executive Producer with Patricia Kearney and composer/arranger Someone You Want To Love CD, featuring Theresa Davis and Ernest McCarty, with songs by Ernest McCarty 2001 Producer and composer/arranger The Real Me CD, featuring Terriann, with songs by Ernest McCarty, Patricia Kearney and Terriann 2003 Producer and composer/arranger The Poet's Corner CD, featuring KL and Kim EL, with the spoken word/lyrics by KL and music by Ernest McCarty Top 1976 The Separate Vacation - Belcrest Theatre, Chicago Love Spirit! - 11th Street Theatre, Chicago 1977 Madame Hortense - Body Politic, Chicago 1979 The Me Nobody Knows - La Mont Zeno Theatre, Chicago 1981 The Humbug Man - New York 1982 The Humbug Man - London 1985 DuSable High School's 50th Anniversary Hi-Jinks, starring Red Foxx - Chicago 1992 Love Spirit! - Del's Down Under (Delsomma) Cabaret - New York 1993 And So I Sing - The Den At Lolabelle - New York 1994 Madame Hortense - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 1995 Recollection Rag (The Exchange) - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh and New York 1996 Home - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh A Window To Home - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 1997 Love Spirit! - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 1999 A Cosmic Night - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 2000 Recollection Rag - WQED-TV, Pittsburgh 2001 Life After Coma - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Tap Dance Kid - Kuntu Repertory Theatre, University of Pittsburgh Jar The Floor - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 2002 The Region - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 2003 The Poet's Corner - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Outrun The Rain - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh 2004 Rain and Rivers - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh Top 1977 Madame Hortense - Joseph Jefferson Award 1979 Fred Hampton Scholarship Fund Image Award - Entertainer of the Year 1985 DuSable High School Hall of Fame Award 1987 Recollection Rag - Hoyt W. Fuller One-Act Play Festival Award - awarded by African American Arts Alliance of Chicago 1998 Prolific Playwright of 1998 - In Pittsburgh Member of The Dramatists Guild, BMI and The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Artistic Director - New Horizon Theater, Pittsburgh, PA Top © Ernest McCarty. All Rights Reserved. Site Development by P Green Design and CommuniTech