Results for "Barry Harris"

Barney McAll: One to Watch

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

This interview was first published in 2001. All About Jazz: First, if you don't mind, tell me some other biographical details (where did you study?) Barney McAll: I was born in Melbourne Australia. I started playing piano at seven years old. My older brother John, was very influential on me ...

Jochen Pfister: Touring with Sheila Jordan

by AAJ Staff
March 6, 2009

German pianist Jochen Pfister had played in workshops with Sheila Jordan in Germany and, at her invitation, in the United States. In 2008, while in Cologne, he asked her if she might be interested in a German tour. “Yes" was the answer, and now it's about happen The first gig is Friday Match 6, 2009, in ...

New Jazz It Up! Episode: Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Mark Whitfield and the Lew Tabackin Trio Plus the 2009 NEA Jazz Masters Ceremony with George Benson Performance

February 6, 2009

New York, NY - The very latest episode of the online jazz TV show, Jazz it Up!, is available now for your viewing pleasure. To subscribe and see a five-minute preview of the new episode. This edition of Jazz it Up! features two trios, both swinging hard: Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride and Mark Whitfield are seen ...

Barry Harris and Mal Waldron: Passing It On / A Portrait

by Francis Lo Kee
July 12, 2008

Barry Harris: Passing It On / A Portrait of Mal Waldron Rhapsody Films 2008This DVD release collects two films about two significant jazz pianists—Barry 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 ...

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Featuring the music of Barry Harris
Duration: 2:55
January 4, 2008

Barry Harris in New York

by Tom Dwyer
March 16, 2006

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 ...

Barry Harris: A Thousand Percent Music Man

by Andrew Velez
February 12, 2006

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 ...

Live in New York

By Barry Harris

Label: Reservoir Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Casbah; Monking Around; Two Step; To Dizzy with Love; Round Midnight; 7-4-3 (60:38).

Barry Harris: Live in New York

by Jack Bowers
March 13, 2004

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 ...

Barry Harris: Live in New York

by Riel Lazarus
November 13, 2003

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 ...