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Barry Harris

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Dr. Harris has devoted his life to the advancement of Jazz and in the 1980’s founded the Jazz Cultural Theatre. For the past several decades Dr. Harris has been an exponent of the classic Jazz style that was developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins.
Harris' earliest musical mentor was his mother who played for church and taught him his first song at the age of 4. This led him studying with different teachers in Detroit. In intermediate school he played clarinet and somehow he heard Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Fats Navarro
Take Five with Saxophonist Inbar Solomon

by AAJ Staff
Meet Inbar Solomon Inbar Solomon is a saxophonist, flutist, and composer originally from Tel Aviv, Israel who is now based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of The New School's Jazz and Contemporary Music program, he received significant merit scholarships from both The New School and Berklee College of Music. Solomon has appeared at major international ...
A Farewell to Madrid's Café Central

by Artur Moral
It happened to Chicago with The London House and The Velvet Lounge; it happened to San Francisco with the Black Hawk Club and the Keystone Corner; and, of course, it happened to New York City with Cafe Society, Sweet Basil, Village Gate and Jazz Standard. It has also happened in many other places and cities around ...
Andrea Rinciari: Soho Sessions

by Neil Duggan
The tracks on this album are selected from the repertoire of songs performed during the weekly sessions held by guitarist Andrea Rinciari and his associates in Soho, London. As he explains, This album is a reflection of the magic that happens when musicians play together regularly. The tracks capture the spirit of our weekly Soho sessions. ...
Dwayne Clemons: Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls

by Jack Bowers
On Center of Gravity, veteran trumpeter Dwayne Clemons displays his astuteness and savvy in a generally impressive session recorded in September 2023 at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, leading a sextet in which he shares the front line with alto saxophonist Amanda Sedgwick and tenor Aaron Johnson. This is a colorful ...
The Emily Masser Quintet: Songs With My Father

by Neil Duggan
Rising vocal talent Emily Masser has already attracted positive attention from British jazz luminaries Claire Martin, Liane Carroll and Clark Tracey. This is no small feat for an artist who has recorded an album while still studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is also helped by having on-tap mentorship and artistic guidance ...
Gravity and Resurgence: The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon

by Arthur R George
Long Tall Dexter; swinger, bebopper, saxophone balladeer; acting the dissipated genius expatriate who was not unlike himself in the movie Round Midnight; his dressed-up persona Society Red;" the laconic elder statesman of his later years. Dexter Gordon is all those things, but more than a kaleidoscope of caricatures. Those who trace their lineages through ...
Kenny Barron, Richard X Bennett, Barry Harris & Louis Hayes

by Joe Dimino
Step into the 883rd episode of Neon Jazz, where the echoes of legends and the pulse of the future intersect. We open with the incomparable Kenny Barron, a living jazz icon still blazing trails, featuring music from his 2024 masterpiece, Beyond This Place. From there, we journey back to the roots with James Moody, the legend ...
Dwayne Clemons: Center of Gravity: Live at Smalls

by Pierre Giroux
Copenhagen-based trumpeter Dwayne Clemons is an accomplished musician whose US career trajectory hit a speed bump in the 1990s when he was incarcerated for a narcotics conviction. Fortunately, he caught the attention of pianist and club owner Spike Wilner who encouraged him to come to New York to play. In time, the result was that, in ...
Kasan Belgrave Takes Off

by Paul Rauch
As a jazz journalist, attending summer festivals is almost a rite of passage, a journey to a place where so many pieces of the international jazz community are gathered in one spot to sample, or to indulge oneself. Over the years, accompanied by repeated visits, the sights and sounds of the festival locations become clearer and ...