George Barrow (musician)

George Barrow ( born September 21, 1921 in New York City; † March 19, 2013 in West Village ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor and baritone saxophone, the flute, clarinet ).

Life and work

Barrow grew up in Staten Iceland and East Harlem. He first worked at the post office and the port and as a bus driver and began a career as a boxer at Cus D' Amato. At age 23 he decided to become a musician and learned to play saxophone and other woodwind instruments as an autodidact. He first played Willis Jackson and belonged to the mid-1950s the band of Charles Mingus; over the Jazz Composers Workshop initiated by this he encountered the legendary Teddy Charles Tentet of. 1957 he became David Amram quartet, with whom he recorded an album. Then he came to Ernie Wilkins; further he took with Big Maybelle, on Gene Ammons, Etta James, Frank Wess, Clark Terry and Warren Smith. He also played in the big bands of Reuben Phillips, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Oliver Nelson, who took him for his precise baritone game also to its central production The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Even avant-gardists such as Bill Dixon pulled him over for their recordings; with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, he can be heard on albums by Michael Mantler and Clifford Thornton. As a day job, he played in the ensemble of the Apollo Theater; From the 1970s he concentrated on Broadway.

Eric Barrow, editor of the Daily News Sunday sport, is his son.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • The Amram - Barrow Quartet Jazz Studio Six ( with Arthur Phipps, Al Harewood, 1957)
Willis Jackson (saxophonist) Warren Smith (singer) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Broadway theatre Mingus at the Bohemia Eddie Bert Art Farmer J. R. Monterose Integrated Authority File
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