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Gary Bartz

American jazz saxophonist (born 1940) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gary Bartz
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Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.[1] He has won two Grammy Awards.[2]

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Bartz at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, California, July 2017

Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the Juilliard School.[1][3] In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop. He worked as a sideman with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.[1] In 1968, he was a member of McCoy Tyner's band, Expansions.[1]

In mid-1970, he joined Miles Davis' band,[1] performing live at the Isle Of Wight festival in August;[4] and at a series of December dates at The Cellar Door club in Washington, D.C. Portions of these shows were initially released on the 1971 Live-Evil album,[1] with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 Cellar Door Sessions box set.[5] He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul.[6]

Bartz was awarded a Grammy for "Best Latin Jazz Performance" for his work on Roy Hargrove's "Habana" at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards, and for "Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group" for For McCoy Tyner's Illuminations at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards.[2]

Bartz was awarded the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award, which was presented at a special ceremony at The Kennedy Center.[7]

In 2019, Revive Music and Bartz celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his Another Earth album at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, alongside original member Pharoah Sanders.[8]

He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College.[9]

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Discography

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As leader

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As sideman

With Joe Chambers

  • Urban Groove[14] (441 Records 2003 )
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    Bartz playing with McCoy Tyner at Jazz Alley, Seattle, in 2012

With the Rance Allen Group

  • Say My Friend (1977)[15]

With Gene Ammons

With Roy Ayers

With Cindy Blackman

With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

With Donald Brown

With Kenny Burrell

With Donald Byrd

With George Cables

With Norman Connors

With Miles Davis

With Ray Drummond

With Antonio Hart

  • Don't You Know That I Care (1992)

With Louis Hayes

With Heads of State[16]

  • Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions, 2015)
  • Four in One (Smoke Sessions, 2017)

With Phyllis Hyman

With Barney McAll

  • Release the Day (2001)
  • Precious Energy (2022)
  • Precious Energy Re-UP (2023)

With Jackie McLean

With Grachan Moncur III

With Alphonse Mouzon

  • Virtue (1976)

With Rare Silk

  • New Weave

With Max Roach

With Wallace Roney

With Pharoah Sanders

With Woody Shaw

With Sphere

With Charles Tolliver

With Bob Thiele Collective

  • Lion Hearted (1993)

With Leon Thomas

With Malachi Thompson

With McCoy Tyner

With Robert Walter

  • Spirit of '70 (1996)

With Chip White

With John Lee & Gerry Brown

  • Infinite Jones with Chris Hinze (Keytone, 1974)

With The Midnight Hour (with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed)

  • Jazz Is Dead 001, Distant Mode (2020)

With Roy Hargrove

  • Of Kindred Souls: The Roy Hargrove Quintet Live (Novus, 1993)
  • Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Habana (Verve, 1997) – Latin Jazz Grammy Winner
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