Barry Harris was caught off guard when he found out he was one of three jazz pianists slated for the President’s Merit Award from the GRAMMY organization. “What is this? I don’t know what this is,” ...

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Barry Harris, a pianist who carefully preserved the language of bebop throughout a seven-decade career as a brilliant performer and influential teacher, died Wednesday at Palisades Medical Center in ...

Barry Harris Barry Harris is an internationally renowned jazz pianist, composer and teacher. Dr. Harris is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Northwestern University. He has received the ...

As one of jazz’s living legends, NEA Jazz Master Dr. Barry Harris will perform at Emmanuel Baptist Church’s first Jazz Vespers of 2014, in honor of Black History Month. It will take place in its ...

Jazz pianist Barry Harris embodied the spirit of bebop after learning the intricate style of music from its creators and then became a much-admired performer and teacher. Harris took his first lessons ...

Barry Harris, a pianist and educator who was the resident scholar of the bebop movement – and ultimately, one of its last original ambassadors – died Wednesday in North Bergen, N.J. He was 91. His ...