Barry Harris
Barry Doyle Harris ( * December 15, 1929 in Detroit ) is an American jazz pianist of the bop ( bebop and hard bop ) and teachers.
Life and work
Harris comes as his childhood friend Tommy Flanagan from Detroit, where his mother was a church pianist. The age of four, he learned piano and won the mid-1940s a prize in a local piano competition. He played with the domiciled here Thad Jones and Blue Mitchell ( and his childhood friends Pepper Adams, Doug Watkins and Paul Chambers ) and acted as the house pianist of a jazz club by traveling jazz musicians such as Lester Young, Lee Konitz, Sonny Stitt, Wardell Gray, Miles Davis, and a session with Charlie Parker. In 1955 he participated in Donald Byrd's first album ("First Flight" ), 1956, he toured with Max Roach, played with Art Farmer and 1960 with Cannonball Adderley. In the same year he moved to New York. In the 1960s, he was there regular companion of Coleman Hawkins ( 1965-1969 ), recorded with Dexter Gordon ( " Biting the Apple ", 1976), Hank Mobley, Yusef Lateef and Illinois Jacquet in 1974 and assisted his example, Thelonious Monk, with whom he had close contact at the home of Pannonia de Koenig Warter, the Monks in recent years for him worried (he is with Flanagan also in the documentary Thelonious Monk - straight no chaser to hear from Charlotte Zwerin 1988 ). As a pianist, he is also strongly influenced by Bud Powell. In 1982 he founded the Jazz Cultural Center in New York, a mixture of lessons place ( he still teaches jazz and jazz piano with a proprietary methodology which since 1958) and performance venue for musicians and similar direction. In 2013 he performed with his trio from Ray Drummond (bass) and Leroy Williams ( drums) at the Village Vanguard.
On Harris teaching the highly touted bebop scale goes back, but he calls " sixth - diminished " scale.
In 1989 he was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. In 2000 he made a guest appearance at Regina Carter Motor City Moments album.
Disco Graphical Notes
As a leader or soloist
- Preminado ( Riverside 1961) with Joe Benjamin, Elvin Jones
- Chasin ' The Bird ( Riverside, 1962) with Bob Cranshaw, Clifford Jarvis
- Luminescence! ( Prestige 1967) with Slide Hampton, Junior Cook, Pepper Adams, Bob Cranshaw, Lennie McBrowne
- Magnificent! ( OJC, 1969) with Ron Carter, Leroy Williams
- Barry Harris plays Tadd Dameron ( Xanadu 1975)
- The Bird of Red and Gold ( Xanadu 1982)
- For the Moment ( Uptown 1984)
- Confirmation ( Candid 1991)
As a sideman
- Joe Henderson: Gettin ' Around ( Blue Note, 1965)
- Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds ( OJC, 1961)
- Charles McPherson: Con Alma ( OJC, 1965)
- Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder ( Blue Note 1963)
- Red Rodney: Bluebird ( Camden, 1973-81 )