Gary Bartz Honored
Baltimore - June 2, 2015 - Saxophonist and educator Gary Bartz will be honored with the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award in a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 16, 2015. The Award is a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and is sponsored by BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment servicing. The BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award honors living jazz masters from the mid-Atlantic region who have achieved distinction in jazz performance and education. The 2015 event will include a gala reception in the Kennedy Center Atrium, the award ceremony, and a performance featuring the BNY Mellon Jazz 2014 Living Legacy awardee Joanne Brackeen in the Kennedy Center Jazz Club. read more @ Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
Here is Gary with a superb rhythm section (comprised of pianist John Hicks, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Al Foster) and trumpeter Claudio Roditi (whose restrained power complements rather than competes with Bartz), the altoist really stretches out, particularly on "Speak Low" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" which both clock in at within seven seconds of 19 minutes apiece. Bartz is quite lyrical on a superior version of "It's Easy to Remember" and also takes inventive solos on his modal blues "Cousins" and Wilbur Harden's "West 42nd Street." I highly recommed that you download it. follow the iTune hyper text link.
Release Date: March 31, 1990
Duration: 01:05:40
African-American Classical Art-Form
Styles:
Post-Bop
Modal Music
Recording Date: March 31, 1990
