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| 1. | Introduction
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| 2. | West 42nd Street
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| 3. | Speak Low
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| 4. | It's Easy to Remember
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| 5. | Cousins
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| 6. | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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Jazz
Recorded live at Birdland, New York City
Gary Bartz - Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
Al Foster - Drums
Claudio Roditi - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
John Hicks - Piano
Ray Drummond - Bass
For an engagement at New York's new Birdland club in March 1990, Bartz assembled an excellent quintet for his first Candid album. On trumpet and flugelhorn was the fine Brazilian musician Claudio Roditi, who was garnered a great reputation through his appearances on both sides of the Atlantic and in the ranks of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra.
The rhythm section, piloted by pianist John Hicks, with whom Bartz worked in the Jazz Messengers all those years ago, knits together superbly to supply unflagging and intelligent support for Gary and Claudio. Hick's thoughtful and percussive solos are always a bonus.
Drummer Al Foster, another ex Miles Davis sideman of many years experience, keeps the rhythmic furnace well stokes and bass player Ray Drummond shows why he is one of the busiest musicians on the New York Scene.
Bartz and company were not content to sketch out a few flimsy "originals" for this occasion - although they fully explore a clever and challenging blues by Gary - but instead explore a neglected but worthy jazz composition and a trio of standards which have been tried and tested.
Without a doubt, Gary Bartz is sustained by the jazz tradition. He has melded what has gone before and added his own personal stamp on the music. We are ever aware of his respect and love for Parker, Coltrane and Rollins, but we can hear that he is his own man. What comes out of his experience and saxophone is pure Gary Bartz!
* Mark Morganelli - Producer
After a long period of indifferent recordings, altoist Gary Bartz started to fulfill his potential in the early '90s. Joined by 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." A highly recommended gem.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Gary Bartz
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 26, 1940 in Baltimore, MD
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Fusion, Post-Bop, Free Funk
Alto saxophonist Gary Bartz attended the Juilliard Conservatory of Music and became a member of Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop from 1962-1964 where he worked with Eric Dolphy and encountered McCoy Tyner for the first time. He also began gigging as a sideman in the mid-'60s with Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, and later as a member of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. His recording debut was on Blakey's Soul Finger album. Tyner formed his famed Expansions band in 1968 with Bartz on alto. In addition, Bartz also formed his own bands at this time and recorded a trio of albums for Milestone, and continued to tour with Max Roach's band. In 1970, Miles Davis hired Bartz and featured him as a soloist on the Live-Evil recording. Bartz formed the Ntu Troop that year as well, an ensemble that fused soul and funk, African folk music, hard bop, and vanguard jazz into a vibrant whole. Among the group's four recordings from 1970-1973, Harlem Bush Music: Taifa and Juju Street Songs have proved influential with soul jazzers, and in hip-hop and DJ circles as well. From 1973-1975 Bartz was on a roll, issuing I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies, Music Is My Sanctuary, Home, and Another Earth, all stellar outings. He meandered for most of the 1980s, coming back in 1988 with Reflections on Monk. Since that time, Bartz has continued making records of quiet intensity and lyrical power -- notably Red & Orange Poems in 1995 -- and has with become one of the finest if under-noticed alto players of his generation.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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