Gary Bartz

Habana

Roy Hargrove · 1997

Live-Evil

Miles Davis · 1971

Hold On, I'm Coming

Art Blakey · 1966

The Eternal Tenure Of Sound: Damage Control

Gary Bartz & Gary Bartz NTU Troop · 2025

Alto saxophonist Gary Bartz made his name on the 1971 electric fusion session Live-Evil and on 1966 hard bop dates. In 1997 he turned up somewhere unexpected: Roy Hargrove's Afro-Cuban band, cutting the Grammy-winning album Habana alongside Chucho Valdés while Hargrove was still in his twenties. Bartz was still releasing albums under his own name in 2025.

Habana

Roy Hargrove · 1997

Earfood

Roy Hargrove · 2008

Roy HargroveRoy Hargroveロイ・ハーグローブ played horns on D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000), reaching listeners far outside jazz. That experience directly inspired the RH Factor, linking hard bop to hip-hop and funk in a single grammar. His conversations with Chucho Valdés in Havana were another axis. He died in 2018 at 49.

— Voodoo, D'Angelo, 2000

Live-Evil

Miles Davis · 1971

Keith JarrettKeith Jarrettキース・ジャレット played Rhodes and organ simultaneously at the Live-EvilLive-EvilMiles Davis · 1971 Cellar Door sessions (December 1970). The pianist who would become famously hostile to electric instruments committed to them fully in this band. Under Miles Davis, personal preferences didn't apply.