Gary Bartz | |
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 Gary Bartz at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam | |
| Background information | |
| Born | September 26, 1940 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, jazz fusion, funk |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument | Saxophone |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Labels | Milestone, Prestige, P-Vine, SteepleChase, Candid, Atlantic, Blue Note, Mapleshade |
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940, in Baltimore) is an American jazz saxophonist. [1] He has won two Grammy Awards. [2]
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] 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; 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. [3] He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6]
He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College. [7]
| Year | Album | Label | Personnel |
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| 1967 | Libra | Milestone | Jimmy Owens, Albert Daily, Richard Davis, Billy Higgins |
| 1968 | Another Earth | Milestone | Charles Tolliver, Pharoah Sanders, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Workman, Freddie Waits |
| 1969 | Home! | Milestone | Woody Shaw, Albert Dailey, Bob Cunningham, Rashied Ali |
| 1970 | Harlem Bush Music - Taifa | Milestone | Nat Bettis, Andy Bey, Harold White |
| 1971 | Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru | Milestone | Ron Carter, Juini Booth, Nat Bettis, Andy Bey |
| 1972 | Juju Street Songs | Prestige | Stafford James, Harvey Mason |
| 1972 | Follow the Medicine Man | Prestige | Hector Centeno, Hubert Eaves III, Andy Bey |
| 1973 | I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies | Prestige | Stafford James, Howard King |
| 1973 | Singerella: A Ghetto Fairy Tale | Prestige | Hector Centeno, Howard King, Hubert Eaves III, James Benjamin, Kenneth Nash, Maynard Parker |
| 1973 | Altissimo | Philips | Charlie Mariano, Jackie McLean, Lee Konitz, Joachim Kühn, Han Bennink, Palle Danielsson |
| 1975 | The Shadow Do! | Prestige [8] | Hubert Eaves III, Michael Henderson, Reggie Lucas, James Mtume, Howard King |
| 1976 | Juju Man | Catalyst | Curtis Robertson, Howard King, Charles Mims, Syreeta |
| 1977 | Music Is My Sanctuary | Capitol | Syreeta Wright, Mizell Brothers |
| 1978 | Love Affair | Capitol | Wah Wah Watson, Dorothy Ashby, Welton Gite, Bill Summers, George Cables, Wade Marcus |
| 1978 | Love Song | Vee-Jay | George Cables, Curtis Robinson, Howard King, Rita Greene |
| 1980 | Bartz | Arista | Howard King, Hubert Eaves III |
| 1988 | Monsoon | SteepleChase | Butch Lacy, Billy Hart, Clint Houston |
| 1988 | Reflections of Monk: The Final Frontier | SteepleChase | Bob Butta, Geoff Harper, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson |
| 1990 | West 42nd Street (Live) | Candid | Claudio Roditi, John Hicks, Ray Drummond, Al Foster |
| 1991 | There Goes the Neighborhood! (Live) | Candid | Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Ben Riley |
| 1991 | Shadows | Timeless [9] | Benny Green, Christian McBride, Victor Lewis, Willie Williams |
| 1994 | Episode One: Children of Harlem | Challenge | Larry Willis, Ben Riley, Buster Williams |
| 1994 | The Red and Orange Poems | Atlantic | Dave Holland, Mulgrew Miller, Eddie Henderson |
| 1995 | Alto Memories | Verve [10] | Sonny Fortune, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Jack DeJohnette |
| 1996 | The Blues Chronicles: Tales of Life | Atlantic | Tom Williams, George Colligan, James King, Greg Bandy, Jon Hendricks, Cyrus Chestnut, Russell Malone, Dennis Chambers |
| 1999 | Live @ the Jazz Standard, Vol. 1: Soulstice | OYO [11] | Barney McAll, Greg Bandy, Kenny Davis |
| 2001 | The Montreal Concert (Live) | DSM | Peter Leitch |
| 2003 | Continuum Act One | Space Time | Jean Toussaint, Bill Mobley, Donald Brown, Essiet Essiet, Billy Kilson, Anga Diaz |
| 2005 | Soprano Stories | OYO | James King, Greg Bandy, George Cables, John Hicks |
| 2012 | Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior | OYO | Barney McAll, Greg Bandy, James King |
With Joe Chambers
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
With Louis Hayes
With Heads of State [14]
With Phyllis Hyman
With Barney McAll
With Jackie McLean
With Grachan Moncur III
With Alphonse Mouzon
With Rare Silk
With Max Roach
With Wallace Roney
With Pharoah Sanders
With Woody Shaw
With Sphere
With Charles Tolliver
With Leon Thomas
With Malachi Thompson
With McCoy Tyner
With Robert Walter
With Chip White
With John Lee & Gerry Brown
With The Midnight Hour (with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed)
With Roy Hargrove
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