Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an award-winning alto saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, instructor, and sideman. Though he began his career with the Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln group in 1964 as well as many peers and mentors including McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Woody Shaw, and Terumasa Hino. During the early 1970s Bartz founded NTU Troop and issued a series of pioneering albums including Follow the Medicine Man and I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies. The band's albums seamlessly integrated funky soul, African folk musics, post-bop, and spiritual jazz. During that deca...