Event

Barry Harris Trio at the Jazz Standard


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Thursday, September 24, 2009 – Sunday, September 27, 2009


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About:

Barry Harris, who will turn 80 in December, is the foremost exponent of the classic style of jazz developed by his friends and colleagues Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, and Bud Powell (who would have turned 85 on September 27). As a lecturer and educator, Harris has transmitted a lifetime of cultural knowledge to eager audiences in Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan; here in New York, he has run his own jazz workshop for musicians and singers for more than 25 years.

At a Barry Harris gig, “the distant past is inescapable,” wrote Ben Ratliff in The New York Times. “He prides himself on understanding and teaching bebop as it was played by Charlie Parker and Bud Powell; that was the music, as heard at dance halls in the 1940s in his native Detroit, that changed his life. He often talks about it, and not as an academic matter; he’s remembering falling in love.”

Barry Harris – piano; Ray Drummond – bass; Leroy Williams – drums.

Information:

jazzstandard.net

Tickets:

$25.00 – $30.00
Web: ticketweb.com
Phone: 866-468-7619