Barry Harris and Chuck Israels sharing a laugh
Barry Harris and Chuck Israels sharing a laugh
Dr. Barry Harris with drummer Mel Brown
Dr. Barry Harris with drummer Mel Brown
Dr. Barry Harris
Dr. Barry Harris
Dr. Harris with Vahagn from SoulPatch Music Productions
Dr. Harris with Vahagn from SoulPatch Music Productions
Interview at Portland KMHD Jazz Radio
Interview at Portland KMHD Jazz Radio
Lunch at a Japanese restaurant
Lunch at a Japanese restaurant
Marquee
Marquee
Rehearsal before the show
Rehearsal before the show
http://soulpatchmusicproductions.com/past/dr-barry-harris#sigProIdd7ab33d65d
Barry Harris moved to New York in 1956 to play with Sonny Rollins and Donald Byrd in the band assembled by Max Roach after the car crash that killed Clifford Brown and Richie Powell. In 1960 he joined Cannonball Adderly’s band. In New York he quickly struck up a close friendship with Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins, to whom he remained close until the end of their lives. From the mid-1970s until Monk’s death in 1982, both pianists lived in the Weehawken, N.J., house owned by the “Jazz Baroness,” Pannonica de Koenigswarter. Harris still lives in De Konigswater’s home, facing the west bank of the Hudson River with a spectacular view of the Manhattan skyline.
Dr. Harris also attracted a national following as one of the most gifted and passionate teachers of bebop. “A lot of piano players, like Sonny Clark, came to Detroit looking for me,” Harris says. “Most of the Detroiters came through my house. Roland Hanna and Sonny Red would climb those stairs to learn those chords. Joe Henderson came for lessons. John Coltrane came to my house and wanted to know what I was teaching.” His protégé saxophonist Charles McPhearson remembers, “I saw everybody there: Sonny Rollins, Cannonball [Adderley]. Trane came when I was there, saying, ‘OK, Barry, what are you working on?’ He’s a master pianist, but it’s more than knowledge that you can get from someone like Barry. You also get an element of musicality.”
As a bandleader Barry Harris recorded 19 albums, including solo recitals (his contribution to Concord’s Maybeck series is one of the best). He is also a distinguished sideman, having recorded with such masters of the music like Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Cannonball Adderley, Harold Land, Thad Jones, Kenny Dorham, Yusef Lateef, Lee Morgan, Charles McPherson, Hank Mobley, Johnny Griffin, Sonny Criss, Al Cohn and Sonny Stitt. His playing can be heard on many canonical records, among them Morgan’s “The Sidewinder” and Lateef’s “Eastern Sounds.”
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61zpysLDI5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1bFr7q8sc |