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Film, Video BARRY HARRIS SPIRIT OF BEBOP

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Title

  • BARRY HARRIS SPIRIT OF BEBOP

Names

  • Edgar Howard (director)

Created / Published

  • USA.

Notes

  • -  Information from: "Jazz on the Screen" by David Meeker. Used with permission. (Source)
  • -  Made-for-TV programme or made-for-video/DVD release.
  • -  Feature film (over 60 minutes).
  • -  "Straight, no chaser", "Ruby, my dear", "Light blue", "Monk medley", "Pannonica" by Thelonious Monk, "Epistrophy" by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, performed by Barry Harris; "To Duke with love", "Waltz with no name", "One down", "We are one", "These are the things we need", "All I can do is sing", "Now is the time", "Breeze's song" by and performed by Barry Harris; "Never let me go" by Jerry Livingston, Ray Evans, performed by The Workshop Singers; "Cherokee" by Ray Noble, "Strictly confidential" by Kenny Dorham, performed by Barry Harris; "Improvisation" performed by Tommy Flanagan; (recorded) "Miguel's party" by Bud Powell, Clark Terry, performed by Bud Powell; "He beeped when he shoulda bopped" by Lorraine Gillespie, performed by Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra; "Hot house" by Tadd Dameron, performed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie; "Just friends" by Sam M. Lewis, John Klenner, performed by Charlie Parker. (Songs)
  • -  Pianist Barry Harris profiled as instrumentalist, composer and teacher, through interviews with the subject , with Gary Giddins, Roni Ben-Hur, Hayes Greenfield, Ira Gitler and Tommy Flanagan plus film/tv clips of Bud Powell, Tommy Flanagan, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and the subject in performance at The Village Vanguard, New York City, accompanied by Earl May, acoustic double bass, Leroy Williams, drums. Also musicians Charles Davis, David Glasser, Patience Higgins, Virgil Jones, Jimmy Lovelace, John Mosca, George Mraz, Jackie Williams, Suleiman Wright. (Personnel on Camera)
  • -  Jazz on the Screen is a reference work of filmographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian (https://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-record.html).

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Chicago citation style:

Edgar Howard. BARRY HARRISSPIRIT OF BEBOP. USA, 1999.

APA citation style:

Edgar Howard. (1999) BARRY HARRISSPIRIT OF BEBOP. USA.

MLA citation style:

Edgar Howard. BARRY HARRISSPIRIT OF BEBOP. USA, 1999.