Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards.

Biography

Bartz studied at the

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. In the early 1960s, he performed with

Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gai ...

and

McCoy Tyner Alfred McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938March 6, 2020) was an American jazz piano, jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards. He was an NEA Jazz Masters, NEA ...

Charles Mingus Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, pianist, composer, bandleader, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and ...

' Jazz Workshop. He worked as a sideman with

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz Jazz drumming, drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in h ...

and

Abbey Lincoln Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of deli ...

before joining

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. In 1968, he was a member of

's band, Expansions. In mid-1970, he joined

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...

' band, performing live at the

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festival in August; and at a series of December dates at

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club in

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Portions of these shows were initially released on the 1971 '' Live-Evil'' album, with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 '' Cellar Door Sessions'' box set. He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul. Bartz was awarded a Grammy for "Best Latin Jazz Performance" for his work on

Roy Hargrove Roy Anthony Hargrove (October 16, 1969 – November 2, 2018) was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn. He achieved worldwide acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles ...

's "Habana" at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards, and for "Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group" for For

's Illuminations at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. Bartz was awarded the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award, which was presented at a special ceremony at

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. 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 Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", San ...

. Later that year, in collaboration with Moon31, He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College.

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With

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With

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* ''Say My Friend'' (1977) With

Gene Ammons Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for his accessible music, steeped in soul and ...

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'' (Prestige, 1974) With

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Pol ...

*'' Stoned Soul Picnic'' (Atlantic, 1968) With

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*'' The Oracle'' (Muse, 1995) With

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, 1965) Bartz recording debut *''

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'' (Limelight, 1966) on one track left over from ''Soul Finger'' sessions With Donald Brown *''

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, 1975) With

Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop m ...

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'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1976) With

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*'' Shared Secrets'' (MuseFX, 2001) *'' Looking for the Light'' (MuseFX, 2003) With

Norman Connors Norman Connors (born March 1, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, and producer who has led a number of influential jazz and R&B groups. He also achieved several big R&B hits of the day, especially with love ballads. He is pos ...

* '' Invitation'' * ''Slewfoot'' * '' This is Your Life'' * ''Love from the Sun'' * ''Dance of Magic: Live at the Nemu Jazz Inn'' * ''

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* ''On the Crest of the Airwaves'' (Discs 1 & 2: Live in August & October 1970) * ''

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'' (1970) * '' Live-Evil'' * ''

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'' (2011) * '' Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4'' (2015) With

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'' (Arabesque, 1996) With

Antonio Hart Antonio Hart (born September 30, 1968) is a jazz alto saxophonist. He attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, studied with Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music, and has a master's degree from Queens College, City University of New York. H ...

* ''Don't You Know That I Care'' (1992) With

Louis Hayes Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer and band leader. He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band. He i ...

*'' The Crawl'' (Candid, 1989) With Heads of State * ''Search for Peace'' ( Smoke Sessions, 2015) * ''Four in One'' (Smoke Sessions, 2017) With

Phyllis Hyman Phyllis Linda Hyman (July 6, 1949 – June 30, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Hyman is best known for her music during the late 1970s through the early 1990s, some of her most notable songs were "You Know How to Love Me" ...

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'' With

Barney McAll Barney McAll (born Melbourne, Australia, 1966) is a jazz pianist and composer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. McAll joined Gary Bartz's band in 1997, and has also played with the Josh Roseman Unit, Fred Wesley and the JB's, Groove Collective, ...

* ''Release the Day'' (2001) With

Jackie McLean John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their deat ...

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, 1973) With

Grachan Moncur III Grachan Moncur III (June 3, 1937 – June 3, 2022) was an American jazz trombonist. He was the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper. Biography Born in New York City, United States, (his paternal gran ...

* ''

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'' (2004) With

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* ''Virtue'' (1976) With

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* ''New Weave'' With

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'' (Atlantic, 1968) With

Wallace Roney Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. He has won 1 Grammy award and has two nominations. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from ...

*'' A Place in Time'' (HighNote, 2016) With

* ''

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, 1970) With

Woody Shaw Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the most important and influential jazz trumpet ...

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, 1970) *'' For Sure!'' (Columbia, 1979) *''

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'' (Columbia, 1981) With

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* ''

'' (Verve, 1998) With

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* '' Paper Man'' (

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With Bob Thiele Collective *''Lion Hearted'' (1993) With

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*''Precious Energy'' (Mapleshade Records, 1987) With

Malachi Thompson Malachi Richard Thompson (August 21, 1949, Princeton, Kentucky — July 16, 2006), was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Thompson was known for his work in the brass ensemble led by fellow tr ...

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'' (Delmark, 1999) *'' Blue Jazz'' (Delmark, 2003) With

* '' Expansions'' (Blue Note, 1968) * ''

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'' (Blue Note, 1970) * ''

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'' (Blue Note, 1970) * '' Asante'' (Blue Note, 1970) * '' Sama Layuca'' (Milestone, 1974) * ''

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'' (Milestone, 1976) * '' Looking Out'' (Milestone, 1982) * ''

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'' (Elektra/Musician, 1984) * '' McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars'' (Telarc, 1999) * ''

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'' (Telarc, 2004) With Robert Walter * ''Spirit of '70'' (1996) With Chip White * ''Harlem Sunset'' with Steve Nelson,

Robin Eubanks Robin Eubanks (born October 25, 1955) is an American jazz and jazz fusion slide trombonist, the brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks. His uncles are jazz pianist Ray Bryant and bassist Tommy Bryant. His mother, Vera Eub ...

Claudio Roditi Claudio Roditi (May 28, 1946 – January 17, 2020) was a Brazilian jazz trumpeter. In 1966 Claudio was named a trumpet finalist at the International Jazz Competition in Vienna, Austria. While in Vienna, Roditi met Art Farmer, one of his idols, ...

(

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) With

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* ''Infinite Jones'' with

Chris Hinze Christiaan Herbert "Chris" Hinze (born June 30, 1938, Hilversum, Netherlands) is a Dutch jazz and New age flautist. Life an work Hinze initially performed publicly as a pianist until the mid-1960s, when he began studying flute at the Royal Con ...

( Keytone, 1974) With The Midnight Hour (with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed) * ''Jazz Is Dead 001, Distant Mode'' (2020)

References

External links

MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
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