Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow ( born December 25, 1959 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone, composition), which is in the hard bop tradition.

Barlow played piano as a child and then studied classical flute and clarinet. He then discovered the alto saxophone and moved at eighteen to tenor. Then he studied jazz at the New South Wales Conservatory. In 1979 he played at the Monterey Jazz Festival with a young Australian band; then he took up with Peter O'Mara. 1982 and 1983 he continued his studies in New York City. Then he worked with Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Richie Cole, Cedar Walton, Indra Lesmana, Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Grabowsky, Adrian Mears and Billy Higgins, with whom he was partly also on a European tour. In Europe, he also led his own groups.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Hipnotation ( 1990, Spiral Scratch Records, with Eddie Henderson )
  • Horn ( 1990, Spiral Scratch Records)
  • Jazz Juice (1992; Hipnotation Records)
  • Dale Barlow Live (2008, Jazz Head Oz)
  • Where We Live ( Hipnotation Records)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Ian Carr et al Jazz Rough Guide. Stuttgart 1999; ISBN 3-476-01584- X
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