Barry Harris

Among the main hard bop pianists from the last fifty percent from the 20th hundred years, Barry Harris offers long had the capability to sound very near Bud Powell, yet he may also carry out convincing impressions of Thelonious Monk, and offers his own design inside the bop idiom. He was a significant area of the Detroit jazz picture from the 1950s, and is a jazz educator since that period. Harris documented his first established as a head in 1958, and transferred to NY in 1960, where he spent a brief period with Cannonball Adderley’s Quintet. He also documented with Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet, Yusef Lateef, and Hank Mobley, and was with Coleman Hawkins on / off throughout the 10 years (including Hawk’s declining years). In the ’70s, Harris was on two of Sonny Stitt’s finest information (Melody Up and Constellation), and produced many recordings in a number of configurations for Xanadu. Harris provides mostly caused his trio because the middle-’70s, and provides recorded being a head for Argo (1958), Riverside, Prestige, MPS, Xanadu, and Crimson.