Results for "Barry Harris"

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

Clubhouse

By Dexter Gordon

Label: Blue Note
Released: 2007
Track listing: Hanky Panky; I'm a Fool to Want You; Devilette; Clubhouse; Lady Iris B.; Jodi.

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 ...

Barry Harris: Live in New York

by Dan McClenaghan
September 25, 2003

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
September 25, 2003

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 ...