Barry Harris Workshop 1998 (Full) Part 1

Barry Harris Workshop at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Holland. March 1998
"The whole thing is going to end up being... it's putting half steps at the right time" - Barry Harris (28:37)

In this video:
00:00 - "Dance of The Infidels" workout. Connecting bars 3-5 in solo. B7 scale ideas
29:00 - Barry demonstrates running the whole keyboard with half-step fills on "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"
31:18 - The run in bars 5-6 of Rhythm Changes
41:36 - Rhythm Changes workout
45:22 - Bars 3 & 4 of Rhythm Changes: connecting the III chord and the II chord
01:02:06 - Repetition (by Neal Hefty, arranged by Barry Harris)

Filmed by Frans Elsen at the Barry Harris Workshop at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Holland in March 1998.
This is a raw video filmed by Frans Elsen in 1998 that I recently captured and edited digitally.
(sorry for the video/ audio quality of the original VHS tapes)

Frans Elsen was a veteran Dutch jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and educator who helped to establish Jazz Schools in The Netherlands. Frans was a master bebop pianist with a beautiful and original sound. He was a close friend of Barry Harris and helped to organize and document Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague which became famous all over the world.
✨ Frans Elsen, Dutch jazz pianist, composer, and educator (May 28, 1934 - Feb. 23, 2011) https://www.franselsen.com/

The annual Barry Harris workshops in The Hague were made possible by Wouter Turkenburg who has been the head of the Jazz Department of The Royal Conservatory for more than 30 years and organized BH workshops for more than 10 years. Barry Harris's workshops in The Hague were attended by people from all over the world and had a significant contribution to Barry Harris's Legacy and further development of the Master's concepts and ideas.

✨ Dr. Barry Harris, a legendary jazz pianist, composer, and educator (Dec. 15, 1929 - Dec. 8, 2021) https://www.barryharris.com/

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► Barry Harris Solo on Lee Morgan's Hocus-Pocus from the "Sidewinder": https://bityl.co/OFeF
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