Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam
Background information
Born	(1940-09-26) September 26, 1940 (age 84) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, funk
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Saxophone
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	Milestone, Prestige, P-Vine, SteepleChase, Candid, Atlantic, Blue Note, Mapleshade

Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940, in Baltimore) is an American jazz saxophonist.^[1] He has won two Grammy Awards.^[2]

Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the Juilliard School.^[1] In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop. He worked as a sideman with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.^[1] In 1968, he was a member of McCoy Tyner's band, Expansions.^[1]

In mid-1970, he joined Miles Davis' band,^[1] performing live at the Isle Of Wight festival in August; and at a series of December dates at The Cellar Door club in Washington, D.C. Portions of these shows were initially released on the 1971 Live-Evil album,^[1] with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 Cellar Door Sessions box set.^[3] He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul.^[4]

Bartz was awarded a Grammy for "Best Latin Jazz Performance" for his work on Roy Hargrove's "Habana" at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards, and for "Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group" for For McCoy Tyner's Illuminations at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards.^[2]

Bartz was awarded the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award, which was presented at a special ceremony at The Kennedy Center.^[5]

In 2019, Revive Music and Bartz celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his Another Earth album at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, alongside original member Pharoah Sanders.^[6]

He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College.^[7]

Year	Album	Label	Personnel
1967	Libra	Milestone	Jimmy Owens, Albert Daily, Richard Davis, Billy Higgins
1968	Another Earth	Milestone	Charles Tolliver, Pharoah Sanders, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Workman, Freddie Waits
1969	Home!	Milestone	Woody Shaw, Albert Dailey, Bob Cunningham, Rashied Ali
1970	Harlem Bush Music - Taifa	Milestone	Nat Bettis, Andy Bey, Harold White
1971	Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru	Milestone	Ron Carter, Juini Booth, Nat Bettis, Andy Bey
1972	Juju Street Songs	Prestige	Stafford James, Harvey Mason
1972	Follow the Medicine Man	Prestige	Hector Centeno, Hubert Eaves III, Andy Bey
1973	I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies	Prestige	Stafford James, Howard King
1973	Singerella: A Ghetto Fairy Tale	Prestige	Hector Centeno, Howard King, Hubert Eaves III, James Benjamin, Kenneth Nash, Maynard Parker
1973	Altissimo	Philips	Charlie Mariano, Jackie McLean, Lee Konitz, Joachim Kühn, Han Bennink, Palle Danielsson
1975	The Shadow Do!	Prestige[8]	Hubert Eaves III, Michael Henderson, Reggie Lucas, James Mtume, Howard King
1976	Juju Man	Catalyst	Curtis Robertson, Howard King, Charles Mims, Syreeta
1977	Music Is My Sanctuary	Capitol	Syreeta Wright, Mizell Brothers
1978	Love Affair	Capitol	Wah Wah Watson, Dorothy Ashby, Welton Gite, Bill Summers, George Cables, Wade Marcus
1978	Love Song	Vee-Jay	George Cables, Curtis Robinson, Howard King, Rita Greene
1980	Bartz	Arista	Howard King, Hubert Eaves III
1988	Monsoon	SteepleChase	Butch Lacy, Billy Hart, Clint Houston
1988	Reflections of Monk: The Final Frontier	SteepleChase	Bob Butta, Geoff Harper, Billy Hart, Eddie Henderson
1990	West 42nd Street (Live)	Candid	Claudio Roditi, John Hicks, Ray Drummond, Al Foster
1991	There Goes the Neighborhood! (Live)	Candid	Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Ben Riley
1991	Shadows	Timeless[9]	Benny Green, Christian McBride, Victor Lewis, Willie Williams
1994	Episode One: Children of Harlem	Challenge	Larry Willis, Ben Riley, Buster Williams
1994	The Red and Orange Poems	Atlantic	Dave Holland, Mulgrew Miller, Eddie Henderson
1995	Alto Memories	Verve[10]	Sonny Fortune, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Jack DeJohnette
1996	The Blues Chronicles: Tales of Life	Atlantic	Tom Williams, George Colligan, James King, Greg Bandy, Jon Hendricks, Cyrus Chestnut, Russell Malone, Dennis Chambers
1999	Live @ the Jazz Standard, Vol. 1: Soulstice	OYO[11]	Barney McAll, Greg Bandy, Kenny Davis
2001	The Montreal Concert (Live)	DSM	Peter Leitch
2003	Continuum Act One	Space Time	Jean Toussaint, Bill Mobley, Donald Brown, Essiet Essiet, Billy Kilson, Anga Diaz
2005	Soprano Stories	OYO	James King, Greg Bandy, George Cables, John Hicks
2012	Coltrane Rules: Tao of a Music Warrior	OYO	Barney McAll, Greg Bandy, James King

With Joe Chambers

• Urban Groove^[12] (441 Records 2003 )

  

With the Rance Allen Group

• Say My Friend (1977)^[13]

With Gene Ammons

• Goodbye (Prestige, 1974)

With Roy Ayers

• Stoned Soul Picnic (Atlantic, 1968)

With Cindy Blackman

• The Oracle (Muse, 1995)

With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

• Soul Finger (Limelight, 1965) Bartz recording debut
• Hold On, I'm Coming (Limelight, 1966) on one track left over from Soul Finger sessions

With Donald Brown

• Sources of Inspiration (Muse, 1989)

With Kenny Burrell

• Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)

With Donald Byrd

• Stepping into Tomorrow (1974)
• Caricatures (1976)

With George Cables

• Shared Secrets (MuseFX, 2001)
• Looking for the Light (MuseFX, 2003)

With Norman Connors

• Invitation
• Slewfoot
• This is Your Life
• Love from the Sun
• Dance of Magic: Live at the Nemu Jazz Inn
• Romantic Journey
• Saturday Night Special

With Miles Davis

• On the Crest of the Airwaves (Discs 1 & 2: Live in August & October 1970)
• The Cellar Door Sessions (1970)
• Live-Evil
• Bitches Brew Live (2011)
• Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (2015)
• Live in Europe: Volume One - recorded October 21/22 1971 - released September 2023

With Ray Drummond

• Vignettes (Arabesque, 1996)

With Antonio Hart

• Don't You Know That I Care (1992)

With Louis Hayes

• The Crawl (Candid, 1989)

With Heads of State^[14]

• Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions, 2015)
• Four in One (Smoke Sessions, 2017)

With Phyllis Hyman

• You Know How to Love Me
• Phyllis Hyman
• Can't We Fall in Love Again?

With Barney McAll

• Release the Day (2001)
• Precious Energy (2022)
• Precious Energy Re-UP (2023)

With Jackie McLean

• Ode to Super (SteepleChase, 1973)

With Grachan Moncur III

• Exploration (2004)

With Alphonse Mouzon

• Virtue (1976)

With Rare Silk

• New Weave

With Max Roach

• Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)

With Wallace Roney

• A Place in Time (HighNote, 2016)

With Pharoah Sanders

• Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Impulse!, 1970)

With Woody Shaw

• Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary, 1970)
• For Sure! (Columbia, 1979)
• United (Columbia, 1981)

With Sphere

• Sphere (Verve, 1998)

With Charles Tolliver

• Paper Man (Freedom, 1968 [1975])

With Bob Thiele Collective

• Lion Hearted (1993)

With Leon Thomas

• Precious Energy (Mapleshade Records, 1987)

With Malachi Thompson

• Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)
• Blue Jazz (Delmark, 2003)

With McCoy Tyner

• Expansions (Blue Note, 1968)
• Cosmos (Blue Note, 1970)
• Extensions (Blue Note, 1970)
• Asante (Blue Note, 1970)
• Sama Layuca (Milestone, 1974)
• Focal Point (Milestone, 1976)
• Looking Out (Milestone, 1982)
• Dimensions (Elektra/Musician, 1984)
• McCoy Tyner and the Latin All-Stars (Telarc, 1999)
• Illuminations (Telarc, 2004)

With Robert Walter

• Spirit of '70 (1996)

With Chip White

• Harlem Sunset with Steve Nelson, Robin Eubanks, Claudio Roditi (Postcards)

With John Lee & Gerry Brown

• Infinite Jones with Chris Hinze (Keytone, 1974)

With The Midnight Hour (with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammed)

• Jazz Is Dead 001, Distant Mode (2020)

With Roy Hargrove

• Of Kindred Souls: The Roy Hargrove Quintet Live (Novus, 1993)
• Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Habana (Verve, 1997) – Latin Jazz Grammy Winner

• MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music^[usurped]