Jazz Icons- Gary Bartz

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Saxophonist Gary Bartz, a two-time Grammy winner, was recently named Protected content Master by the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently teaching at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Bartz has made 45 solo albums and performed with an astonishing array of jazz greats.

After studying at The Juilliard School, Bartz played with the Abbey Lincoln Group with Max Roach and the Charles Mingus Workshop. In the mid Protected content , he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers during the recording of Soul Finger. He then worked with McCoy Tyner, deepening his connection to one of his major influences, John Coltrane. In Protected content , Miles Davis asked Bartz to perform with his band at the historic Isle of Wight Festival; soon after, Bartz formed his own group, Ntu Troop, which blends soul, funk, African folk, hard bop, and avant-garde jazz on such albums as I’ve Known Rivers and Other Bodies, based on the poems of Langston Hughes; Music Is My Sanctuary; Love Affair; Another Earth; and Home.