Dan Gould Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 I trust Allen Lowe's report on FB that Barry has passed. Terrible loss. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 A life not wasted. Congratulations, RIP, and thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Damn. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Thank you for the music .... R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Sad news - but a really great legacy. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Very distressing. I first heard Barry Harris play in Detroit in the mid-50's. He quickly became one of my Favorite jazz piano players and has remained so for the past roughly 75 years!!!! R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.D. Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 hour ago, sidewinder said: Sad news - but a really great legacy. RIP. +1 Have been fearing this for a while, but will focus on the legacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 hour ago, JSngry said: A life not wasted. Best obituary I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Mark Stryker's NPR obit. This has been a rough couple of days. Never got to see Harris perform, but did get to hear him talk at Jazz Congress a couple of years ago. The term "master" may tend to be overused, but not for him. A grandmaster, in fact, of jazz knowledge and of life. Glad that he had such a long run, and was teaching till the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Sigh ....... R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Will play this later: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HutchFan Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 A proverbial "Keeper of the Flame" if there ever was one. R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 What a loss. RIP Barry. Thanks for the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 So the grand old man of jazz piano and jazz education has gone. A sad day indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabshakeh Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 RIP. While he's obviously associated with Detroit, I always thought he was a premier NYC jazz ambassador. He leaves a huge gap. Will play The Sidewinder today in his memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 1 hour ago, porcy62 said: Best obituary I can think of. Indeed. He’s probably one of my three or five favorite pianists. He leaves an amazing legacy. 91 years young. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Oh no, this is turning into a horrendous year- first Pat Martino and now Barry Harris. RIP, Maestro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Obituary by Mark Stryker. Barry Harris, beloved jazz pianist devoted to bebop, dies at 91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Statement from Michael Weiss: Today, with sadness we mourn the loss of a great man. With joy we celebrate the life of a great man. Background: I met Barry Harris in 1979, receiving a piano lesson while Barry was in Indianapolis for a concert. After moving to New York in 1982 we established a close musical and personal relationship. Over the years he would call me or I would call him with a musical challenge, an investigation, or a conundrum – he at his piano and me at mine. In the 1980s I performed several times at Barry's Jazz Cultural Theater as a member of the Junior Cook/Bill Hardman Quintet. We collaborated on numerous projects, including concerts in tribute to Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, and an extensive co-interview recorded and transcribed for the liner notes to the Complete Bud Powell on Verve. In 2012 Barry commissioned me to transcribe his complete compositional output. Despite a thirty year difference in age, there was a bond, a kinship, a sharing of the same musical aesthetic and values. Barry was my musical soulmate. As a pianist: Barry orchestrated melodies and constructed his improvisations in an easy-going, unhurried, free flowing narrative – a lyricism delivered with a laissez-faire attitude, never resorting to virtuosity for its own sake, yet complex or as simple as needed. But his rhythm was profound – he grabbed the beat in his phrasing that tugged at your very soul. He was a brilliant and effective musical orator. As an educator: Barry’s own codification of the bebop language stands alone, apart from most of the trite attempts at jazz theory in the academic world, because it goes to the heart of what makes a melody melodic. He married the horizontal and the vertical in a unified whole of tonality: melodies existing inside chords and chords existing inside melodies. As the best practitioner of his theoretical concepts, Barry mined extraordinary beauty in exploring all the harmonic and melodic possibilities he could derive. To the very end he remained curious - always looking for new answers and looking for new questions. As a person: He gave tirelessly of himself as a teacher and as a human being, always wanting to help others. For this he was revered and loved throughout the world. Anybody who has known Barry well over the years, probably feels like they had a special and unique relationship with him, and I'm no exception. But he was just Barry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 COVID-19 still wreaking havoc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Duckworth Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 I'm so sorry to hear this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulfromcamden Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Gutted to learn of this today. I came to his music probably a lot later than many board members but I'm so glad I had the opportunity to see him play so many times in London over the past decade - just a joy to behold. Thank you Barry. A life very well lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 the greatest music of all time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 It feels like the end of an era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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