Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz (born 26 September 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School. He has worked with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Jackie McLean, and in 2005 won a Grammy Award for playing on McCoy Tyner's album Illuminations. His group the "Ntu Troop" combined soul, funk, the music of Africa, hard bop, and... more

Gary Bartz (born 26 September 1940, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School. He has worked with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, and Jackie McLean, and in 2005 won a Grammy Award for playing on McCoy Tyner's album Illuminations. His group the "Ntu Troop" combined soul, funk, the music of Africa, hard bop, and avant-garde jazz. He currently teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music when not touring. With Donald Byrd With Miles Davis With Grachan Moncur III With Alphonse Mouzon With Pharoah Sanders With Woody Shaw With Charles Tolliver With McCoy Tyner less