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Barry Harris
@ the PizzaExpress Jazz Club
26 August 2010
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Biography
Barry Harris is an Internationally renowned Jazz
Pianist, Composer and Teacher. Dr. Harris is the recipient of an
Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University. He has received
the Living Jazz Legacy award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Association,
and an American Jazz Masters Fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts. In addition, Dr. Harris received the Manhattan Borough
President Award for Excellence. This award was given for recognition
of his devoted public service and in honor of excellence in the
field of music. He received the 1999 Mentor award for his work with
youngsters at the Manhattan Country School in NYC.
Dr. Harris has devoted his life to the advancement
of Jazz and in the 1980’s founded the Jazz Cultural Theatre.
For the past several decades Dr. Harris has been an exponent of
the classic Jazz style that was developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins.
Dr. Barry Harris receives frequent request to appear as a guest
lecturer by Universities and various musical venues all over the
world. His lectures and interactive instrument and vocal workshops
focus on the complete aspects of music including improvisation,
harmonic movement and theory. His schedule includes lectures in
the United States, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Japan.
When he is not travelling, Dr. Harris holds weekly music workshop
sessions in New York City for vocalists, students of piano other
instruments.
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