Gary Bartz

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

Biography
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. 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. In 1968, he was a member of McCoy Tyner's band, Expansions.

In mid-1970, he joined Miles Davis' band, 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, with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 Cellar Door Sessions box set. He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul.

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.

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

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. Later that year, in collaboration with Moon31,

He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College.

As sideman
With Joe Chambers
 * Urban Groove (441 Records 2003 )Gary Bartz 02.jpg at Jazz Alley, Seattle, in 2012]]

With the Rance Allen Group With Gene Ammons With Roy Ayers With Cindy Blackman With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers With Donald Brown With Kenny Burrell With Donald Byrd With George Cables With Norman Connors With Miles Davis With Ray Drummond With Antonio Hart With Louis Hayes With Heads of State With Phyllis Hyman With Barney McAll With Jackie McLean With Grachan Moncur III With Alphonse Mouzon With Rare Silk With Max Roach With Wallace Roney With Pharoah Sanders With Woody Shaw With Sphere
 * Say My Friend (1977)
 * Goodbye (Prestige, 1974)
 * Stoned Soul Picnic (Atlantic, 1968)
 * The Oracle (Muse, 1995)
 * Soul Finger (Limelight, 1965) Bartz recording debut
 * Hold On, I'm Coming (Limelight, 1966) on one track left over from Soul Finger sessions
 * Sources of Inspiration (Muse, 1989)
 * Ellington Is Forever Volume Two (Fantasy, 1975)
 * Stepping into Tomorrow (1974)
 * Caricatures (1976)
 * Shared Secrets (MuseFX, 2001)
 * Looking for the Light (MuseFX, 2003)
 * Invitation
 * Slewfoot
 * This is Your Life
 * Love from the Sun
 * Dance of Magic: Live at the Nemu Jazz Inn
 * Romantic Journey
 * Saturday Night Special
 * 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
 * Vignettes (Arabesque, 1996)
 * Don't You Know That I Care (1992)
 * The Crawl (Candid, 1989)
 * Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions, 2015)
 * Four in One (Smoke Sessions, 2017)
 * You Know How to Love Me
 * Phyllis Hyman
 * Can't We Fall in Love Again?
 * Release the Day (2001)
 * Precious Energy (2022)
 * Precious Energy Re-UP (2023)
 * Ode to Super (SteepleChase, 1973)
 * Exploration (2004)
 * Virtue (1976)
 * New Weave
 * Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)
 * A Place in Time (HighNote, 2016)
 * Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Impulse!, 1970)
 * Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary, 1970)
 * For Sure! (Columbia, 1979)
 * United (Columbia, 1981)
 * Sphere (Verve, 1998)

With Charles Tolliver
 * Paper Man (Freedom, 1968 [1975])

With Bob Thiele Collective With Leon Thomas With Malachi Thompson With McCoy Tyner
 * Lion Hearted (1993)
 * Precious Energy (Mapleshade Records, 1987)
 * Rising Daystar (Delmark, 1999)
 * Blue Jazz (Delmark, 2003)
 * 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)