 Listen to Barry Play The Picture is of Barry Performing Live at London Jazz Festival (Queen Elizabeth Hall) in UK on November 23, 2002 with Joe Lovano Barry resides in NYC and is one of the busiest jazz musicians in the city. Not only an accomplished Trumpet player, Barry also does many gigs and recordings on Drums as well. He has recorded and performed with a list of the jazz greats to long for this article. To mention a few… On the CD "LIONEL HAMPTON AND HIS BIG BAND" Joe Lovano Ensemble "Streams Of Expression" Blue Note Records 2006 also toured with Joe Lovano in Europe fall 2006 & 2007 On the CD "Joyful Noise" -- A Tribute to Duke Ellington Don Sebesky November 01, 1999 … CD –"Gerry Mulligan Big Band" at the Glasgow Jazz Festival. Barry has come over to play at the Catamount Arts center recently a great honor for jazz listeners in the Northern Kingdom |
In the 80s He worked with Paul Jeffrey and Duke Jordan, quickly immersed
himself in the rolling scene of the jazz capital, "playing lots of sessions with
people like Joe Lovano, Ralph LaLama, Rich Perry, Jeff Hirshfield
and Adam Nussbaum.
Ries joined Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band, who introduced
Him to Don Sebesky, who hired him for numerous studio dates, to this day.
Gerry also introduced him to Todd Coolman,
who in essence got him an audition with Horace Silver; that's also when
he started working with Lionel Hampton.
Says "Barry "Horace put me in all the major jazz clubs in America. When we opened
at the Village Vanguard, I saw Woody Shaw at the bar, looking up at the
bandstand. I'd been hanging out with Woody,
he'd been nice to me and said", 'Man, I like what you're doing in the tradition with
Horace; play your thing.'
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