 Gary Bartz with McCoy Tyner, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, 2007. Image by Bob Travis Casco, Maine, USA, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 |
Gary BartzGary Bartz Gary Bartz American jazz saxophonist (born 1940) Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.[1] He has won two Grammy Awards.[2] Quick facts Background information, Born ... Gary Bartz Gary Bartz at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam Background information Born (1940-09-26) September 26, 1940 (age 84) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Genres Jazz, jazz fusion, funk Occupation Musician Instrument Saxophone Years active 1960s–present Labels Milestone, Prestige, P-Vine, SteepleChase, Candid, Atlantic, Blue Note, Mapleshade Close Biography Bartz at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, California, July 2017 Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the Juilliard… (Source: Wikipedia)
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