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Monthly Archives: December 2013
It’s Barry Harris’ 84th birthday. Here’s a link to a post I uploaded on his birthday two years ago, with a “director’s cut” DownBeat feature on the maestro from 2000, and an oral history conducted by Aaron Graves for the Smithsonian, after Mr. Harris was awarded his NEA Jazz Mastership.
Below, I’ve appended the interviews that I conducted for the DownBeat piece. One contains Mr. Harris’ remarks when he joined me on WKCR in 1999; the other two are transcriptions of phoners that we did after DB assigned me the piece. There are also interviews with Tommy Flanagan, his close friend and contemporary; Leroy Williams, his drummer of choice for 18 years; Don Schlitten, his producer for 20 years or so; and Charles McPherson, one of his most distinguished students.
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Barry Harris (WKCR, 4-8-99):
[MUSIC: BH/GM/LW, “I’ll Keep Loving You”]
TP: A few words about this particular group of musicians, and what they do for you in articulating the music. George Mraz, first of all.
HARRIS: Well, George Mraz is a very-very special bass player. I felt sort of privileged to play with him on this record, because he’s one of the fastest cats! I don’t mean tempo-fast.
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ISBN: 9781101886212
Publication Date: Ballantine, 2016. $30.00
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