“Folks would all chip in and buy food, and one of us would cook. “In those days, we used to go by people’s lofts and stay for weeks, just working on music,” says Gary. “I learned that early on.”Ĭirca mid-’60s, the alto saxophonist – still in his early 20s – began performing throughout the city with the Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln Group and quickly established himself as the most promising alto voice since Cannonball Adderley. “If I didn’t have money to get in. I’d help somebody carry a drum and sneak in,” laughs Bartz. Things were fresh.” Back then, Gary could regularly be found drinking Cokes in the all ages “peanut gallery” of Birdland, enjoying a marathon bill of performers. “Charlie Parker had passed away three years previously but Miles’ group was in its heyday, Monk was down at the Five Spot, and Ornette Coleman was just coming to town. “It was a very good time for the music in New York, at the end of what had been the be-bop era,” says Bartz. Just 17 years old, Gary couldn’t wait to come to the city to play and learn. Gary Bartz first came to New York In 1958 to attend the Julliard Conservatory of Music. As if his Grammy Award© with McCoy Tyner in 2005 ( Illuminations) wasn’t enough to carve out a place for Bartz in the jazz genre, he has broken the mold with more than 40 solo albums and over 200 as a guest artist.
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Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown of Baltimore, MD to his own music throughout the 57 years as a professional musician. Billy Taylor – Millennium Living Legacy AwardeeīNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Awardee Gary Bartz. Robert “Boysie” Lowery – 1995 Living Legacy Awardeeĭr. Larry Ridley – 1997 Living Legacy Awardeeīarry Harris – 1996 Living Legacy Awardee Reggie Workman – 1999 Living Legacy Awardeeĭr. Shirley Scott – 2000 Living Legacy Awardee Randy Weston – 2004 Living Legacy Awardee Kenny Barron – 2008 Living Legacy Awardeeīenny Golson – 2007 Living Legacy Awardee Muhal Richard Abrams – 2012 Living Legacy Awardeeįrank Foster – 2009 Living Legacy Awardee Nathan Davis – 2013 Living Legacy Awardee
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