JAZZ FEST in the WOODS
Grand Finale with Horn Master Wendell Harrison

Sunday, June 27, 2 pm
Concert sponsor: Creative Arts Collective

By Larry Gabriel, www.gumbospot.com, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Photo by Riva Sayegh, www.riva sayegh.com

Our own internationally known jazz guitarist A. Spencer Barefield joins with bassist Dave Young and drummer Djallo Djakate Keita to collaborate with saxophonist Wendell Harrison.

Sunday’s show features reedman Wendell Harrison, cofounder of Detroit’s legendary Tribe collective — recently revived with the backing of techno impressario Carl Craig.
Harrison came up In Detroit’s storied bebop scene in the late 1950s. For a decade he worked from a New York base, playing with the likes of Big Maybelle, Betty Carter, Sun Ra, Grant Green, Eddie Harris, Hank Crawford and others.

Harrison pioneered a modern movement of clarinet composition, performance and recording during the 1980s and was named a Michigan Jazz Master by Arts Midwest in 1993. In addition to the recent revival of avant-funk fun with Tribe, Harrison is active on the licorice stick playing traditional swing