New York sax player visits Bacari.Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. tenor saxophonist Noun 1. tenor saxophonist - a musician who plays the tenor saxophone tenorist saxist, saxophonist - a musician who plays the saxophone Herb Harris will play originals and standards with a piano trio A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. at 6 p.m. (dinner show) and 10 p.m. Saturday at Bacari, 1210 Willamette St. A $10 cover will be charged. Busy on the New York City jazz scene, Harris has toured nationally with the Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Septet and with pianist Marcus Roberts Marcus Roberts (born August 7, 1963 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American jazz pianist who has achieved fame as a gifted stride pianist committed to celebrating classic standards and jazz traditions. . He has recorded with both artists (`Deep in the Shed" with Roberts and "Tune in Tomorrow" with Marsalis). Harris also was featured in the group of saxophonists dubbed the Tough Young Tenors on the album "Alone Together," which reached No. 5 on Billboard's jazz chart. An avid composer, Harris cites as his composing influences Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin; his sax influences are Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt and Charlie Parker. The Eugene-based Paradox Jazz Octet will play compositions by Glenn Griffith from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturday at Luna, 30 E. Broadway. A $5 cover will be charged. Led by composer-arranger Griffith, the octet plays original music in the tradition of Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Art Blakey. Griffith likens the group's sound to a tradition developed in the 1945-65 era. "For me that is bebop bebop or bop Jazz characterized by harmonic complexity, convoluted melodic lines, and frequent shifting of rhythmic accent. In the mid-1940s, a group of musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, rejected the conventions of , ballads, blues, hard bop, straight-ahead, cool and the Blue Note sound, among others," he said. "Stylistically this band stops just short of the jazz rock and jazz fusion of the late '60s and '70s. "I wanted music with strong melodies, a good swinging feel, an aggressive edge to the music, interesting chord progressions, colorful orchestrations," he said. "To me, these writers (Mingus, Ellington and Blakey) wrote music that was true to them, accessible by an audience and often paid homage or respect to the musical traditions that came before them. That is what I hope to achieve with this group." The combo includes Tim Clarke, trumpet; Gary Lewis, sax and flute; Todd del Giudice, tenor sax; James Phillips, baritone sax; Greg Goebel, piano; Andrea Niemiec, bass; Jason Palmer, drums; and Griffith, trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. . CAPTION(S): Herb Harris plays two shows. Jazz notes |
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