Gary Bartz

The record featured a lot of legendary jazz musicians who performed with Miles Davis, Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter.

Gary Bartz is on the record.

Badal Roy, a tabla player who played with Miles Davis.

There are also very important South Asian classical musicians on the record like Yusri Nivas, the mandolin player.

And I'm not an Indian classical musician, but I'm kind of, you know, a bit of an anomaly in the jazz world as being an Indian American jazz musician.

And I knew the record producer and, you know, he wanted me to be a part of it.

And You know, I mean, I got to record with, you know, I'm on a few tracks, one of which is with Ron Carter and Jimmy Cobb and Gary Bartz playing all blues and five.

I mean, who's going to turn that down? I mean, that's that's crazy.

The album we'll feature is Right Now and Then, the debut recording as a leader by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, made in 1968 and featuring an amazing lineup.

Herbie Hancock on piano, Gary Bartz on alto saxophone, Ron Carter on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums.

What a way to introduce yourself as a band leader at the age of 26.

Let's hear Toliver's Paper Man.

I heard the Miles Davis band when he came and his record Live Evil came out, which was a couple of records after Bitches Brew.

But to be in a room with Miles Davis and Jack D. Jeanette, Keith Jarrett on piano, Gary Bartz, Michael Henderson on bass, Don Elias on drums, that was 1971 or two.

Feels like it was yesterday.

The energy and the way they played, they were playing like a free-flowing music.

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[singing][singing] So, like, the, uh, individual members of this band have gone on to play with Arati Gorawar, they've played with the Cinematic Orchestra, Gary Bartz, all kinds of, like, different musicians that you all know about, and they've been working in the background.

So it's really nice when your mates go off and do really, really cool shit.

Um, the next track I'm gonna be playing is by the artistic director of the, uh, London International Arts Festival, which is, uh, Jyotsna Srikanth.

Pumping John Coltrane up in my headphones

Gary Bartz, Mizell, I produce love tones He's a Kool and the Gang, got jazz for that ass

Marla Jazz Quartet always got the A-class

Johnny Hammond Smith, Pharoah Sanders

You're going into the 70s, the jazz rock fusion thing, you know, Dejanette, Dave Holland, Keith Jarrett playing Rhodes, Chick Corea.

Gary Bartz, Ayeto, like all of these, you know, like from the 50s to the 70s, 20 years, Miles could not really have sounded more different.

And you go, you know, 15 years ahead into the last period of his life and he's playing, you know, like Michael Jackson tunes or whatever.

And it's like really, really, really different.

He studied with sax greats like Joe Lovano and George Garzone, among others, moving to New York after university.

While in New York, he performed and recorded with Clark Terry, Jim McNeely, Billy Taylor, George Cables, Gary Bartz, and others.

As a composer, his work for jazz sextet and string quartet, Suite No. 1, was presented at Carnegie Hall in 1995.

He moved to LA in 2007 to raise his children and had residencies there with his trio at Trip and then Industry Cafe, performing and recording with Bill Holman, Ron Jones, and Doug Webb, among others.

It looks like this will be his 25th recording as a leader.

The last four were all on Smoke Sessions records, and the most recent three were Bird at 100 in 2019.

That was with Vincent Herring and Gary Bartz, also on alto.

I really enjoyed that recording.