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Barry 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 ...
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
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
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 ...
Barry Harris: Live in New York
by Dan McClenaghan
Do they give Grammy Awards for the best performance by an underrated jazz performer? If they do, last year's winner would have to have been saxman Von Freeman's The Improvisor. This year the top nominee would have to be pianist Barry Harris, for Live in New York. Harris has been playing jazz in the mode of ...
Barry Harris: Live In New York
by Mark Corroto
It is funny (strange) how the mainstream press “rediscovers" jazz musicians in the golden years of their careers. Not that Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, or Dexter Gordon had ever really been missing. As with these hall of famers, prepare for the mainstream press to rediscover pianist Barry Harris. Marketing departments might favor twenty-somethings over bespeckled white-haired ...
Newer Than New
By Barry Harris
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Mucho Dinero, Easy To Love, Burgundy, The Last One, Anthropology, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, Make Haste, Nightingale.
Barry Harris Quintet: Newer Than New
by David Rickert
Barry Harris was always considered one of the elder statesmen of the Detroit scene, even though he was only in his thirties when he made his mark. Armed with a piano style based on the advances of Bud Powell, Harris dedicated his life to filling the vacuum left by the waning light of the bebop giants ...
Magnificent!
By Barry Harris
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Bean and the Boys; You Sweet and Fancy Lady; Rouge; Ah-Leu-Cha; Just Open Your Heart; Sun Dance; These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You); Dexterity.
Barry Harris: Magnificent!
by C. Andrew Hovan
By the time pianist Barry Harris recorded his first session as a leader in 1958, Breakin' It Up for the Argo label, Charlie Parker had already been dead for three years and the be-bop movement that he had helped usher in was already giving way to the more visceral advance of hard bop and the beginning ...
