'Gary Bartz' (born
26 September 1940,
Baltimore,
Maryland) 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
Charles Mingus,
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers,
Miles Davis,
McCoy Tyner,
Max Roach, and
Jackie McLean, as well as performing and recording with his own groups, among them the
Ntu Troop, which combined
soul,
funk, African
folk music,
hard bop, and avant-garde
jazz.
In 2005, Bartz won a
Grammy Award for playing on
McCoy Tyner's album ''Illuminations''.
He currently teaches at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music when not touring.
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