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Barry Harris: Live In Rennes
by Dan Bilawsky
The city of Detroit was once an incubator for some of the greatest jazz piano talent in the world. Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan and Sir Roland Hanna all came from the Motor City and contributed volumes to jazz history. Sadly, all three of those giants are gone now, but Barry Harris is keeping the flame alive. Harris is the last man standing from this exclusive club, and he continues to educate the masses through his workshops in New York and ...
read moreBarry Harris: Setting The Standard On Standards
by Dan Bilawsky
The Barry Harris Trio Iridium New York, NY February 4, 2010Barry Harris has been a major force in jazz and jazz education for well over half a century. Now in his 80s, Harris seems to have lost none of his charm, wit, knowledge and skill, as he clearly held the crowd in the palm of his hand during his stay at the Iridiumjust north of Times Square in Manhattan. This 75-minute set emphasized well-known songs ...
read moreBarry Harris and Mal Waldron: Passing It On / A Portrait
by Francis Lo Kee
Barry Harris: Passing It On / A Portrait of Mal Waldron Rhapsody Films 2008This DVD release collects two films about two significant jazz pianistsBarry Harris and Mal Waldron. The first film is a short (23 minutes) but wonderfully personable glimpse into the life of pianist/educator Harris, who describes himself at the film's beginning as an inveterate be-bopper," a man dedicated to that part of the jazz language he calls the beginning and end of music." What ...
read moreBarry Harris in New York
by Tom Dwyer
Barry Harris is one of the world's most respected jazz piano players and teachers, considered by many to be the foremost interpreter of the music of Bud Powell, Tadd Dameron and Thelonious Monk. For more than half a century, Harris has played with the giants of jazz including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball Adderley and Coleman Hawkins, traveling the world over as an ambassador of jazz. But for forty-some years, no matter where he's been, Harris ...
read moreBarry Harris: A Thousand Percent Music Man
by Andrew Velez
During a recent conversation, Barry Harris (75) was asked about his plans for the future. It evoked an instantaneous explosion of laughter from him before he replied, Don't ask me that! The life I lead is the life I lead. The recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University, in person Dr. Harris is a physically unprepossessing 5' 6½ . Yah, put da half in there, he remarks, punctuating it with one of his frequent chuckles. Talking with this warm, ...
read moreBarry Harris: Live in New York
by Jack Bowers
Maestro Barry Harris, who's never at a loss for an appropriate note or phrase, leads a well-coordinated quintet through its paces on this smooth-as-velvet but no less invigorating date, recorded 'on location' (we're not told where) in New York City.
Harris, one of the leading bop pianists of the past forty years and now an elder statesman at age seventy-four, remains at the top of his game, enhancing his marvelous chops with a storehouse of resourceful ideas whose ...
read moreBarry Harris: Live in New York
by Riel Lazarus
Live jazz recordings are a curious sort of creature. Sometimes they capture the energy of spontaneous creation so fundamental to the jazz idiom, while at other times they unwittingly detach the music from the atmosphere which inspired it. In the case of legendary pianist Barry Harris' recent release, Live in New York, jazz fans will be relieved to find an apt recovery of the creative energy and club atmosphere present on the night it was recorded. Joining Harris ...
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