Song of the Day: Gary Bartz – Day By Day

Gary Bartz shares his third single Day By Day recorded with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad as a part of Jazz Is Dead series. Gary Bartz over the last six decades plays bebop, hard bop, free jazz, spiritual jazz, soul jazz, jazz-funk, fusion and acid jazz, every time leaving his own mark. Wherever it was his early work with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop, to work with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln, a stint in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, or playing in Miles Davis group. There's his groundbreaking and highly influential Ntu Troop albums of the early ‘70s and his jazz-funk work including two classic albums with the Mizell Brothers. 

The first of these records The Shadow Do supply A Tribe Called Quest with a sample for their 1991 song Butter. And while on the subject of samples, the Bartz catalog has provided hip-hop and other genres with a rich source of them, and artists who have gone to his well when producing beats also include Black Sheep, Jurassic 5, Warren G, Photek, Statik Selektah, Young Disciples, and many others. The music world made a circle when A Tribe Called Quest's hip-hop producer invited a living jazz legend and his inspiration to make an album together. The effect of this session will come out 2nd of April 2021 via Ali Shaheed Muhammad's co-owned Jazz Is Dead label.

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Listen to Gary Bartz with Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad new song Day By Day from his forthcoming album Jazz Is Dead 6: