Gary Bartz

[mrjazzman]

I saw a masterful performance from Grand Master Gary Bartz last night at Yoshi's. When they started to play Ko Ko I almost fell out of my chair. Bird? live at Yoshi's?? Amazing. If there was a weak link in the chain, it was the drummer. Kassa Overall, rather light weight, sort of skims the surface of things. But overall a brilliant performance, best I've seen in years. I'd pay big money to see Gary Bartz and Charles McPherson together

Edited Saturday at 05:56 AM by mrjazzman

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I haven't been able to catch Bartz live in several years, probably due to COVID, but the last times I did see him perform, he was still playing great. I hope he makes his way back to the Boston area again.

[Guy Berger]

MrJazzman, you should check out his classic work with Miles Davis during 1970-71.

[Peter Friedman]

These are my favorite Gary Bartz albums.

[jazzkrow]

I also saw Gary Bartz, just yesterday at the Mount Hood jazz festival, near Portland. 

His set was brilliant, he played Non-Stop for a full hour and his touring band was superb as well. Especially bassist, Reuben Rogers, guitarist Paul Bollenback, and pianist, Marc Cary.

At 83 years old, Gary still has it...

Very impressed.

I was sorry to miss out on Nicholas Payton's set afterwards .

[Kevin Bresnahan]

[JSngry]

5 hours ago, jazzkrow said:

I also saw Gary Bartz, just yesterday at the Mount Hood jazz festival, near Portland. 

His set was brilliant, he played Non-Stop for a full hour and his touring band was superb as well. Especially bassist, Reuben Rogers, guitarist Paul Bollenback, and pianist, Marc Cary.

At 83 years old, Gary still has it...

Very impressed.

I was sorry to miss out on Nicholas Payton's set afterwards .

Who was the drummer?

[jazzkrow]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Who was the drummer?

Kassa Overall...

The only musician I was unaware before.m

[JSngry]

New name to me as well.

[mjazzg]

He's very big in the younger scene that crosses over to other genres of R'n'B, Neo Soul, hip hop etc

And in a way it doesn't surprise me that Bartz hired him as he's always been open to similar crossover. (cue the "but he's not Jazz" protests from the Jazz Police)

Edited 2 hours ago by mjazzg