Mike Clark/Gary Bartz/Eddie Henderson
The Music of Herbie Hancock & Gary Bartz is coming to Keystone Korner Baltimore from January 6-8th!
Mike Clark – drums
Gary Bartz – alto sax
Eddie Henderson – trumpet
Essiet Okon Essiet – bass
Jon Davis – piano
“[Mike’s] a great jazz drummer—and he hasn’t lost any of the stuff that he brought from Oakland. So now he’s totally free to do both, and he does. The solo he played on the album Thrust, on the song “Actual Proof,” is one of the best drum solos on any of my albums. So many people have remarked about that solo, saying, ‘Incredible.’” – Herbie Hancock
Mike Clark gained worldwide recognition as one of America’s foremost jazz and funk drummers while playing with Herbie Hancock in the early seventies. His incisive playing on Hancock’s “Actual Proof” garnered him an international cult following and influenced generations of drummers. While Mike digs the funk, he consider jazz his first love, and playing that music is what he says feeds his soul.
A native of Baltimore, Gary Bartz has been known to many as a trail blazer in the music business from the moment he started playing with Art Blakey at his father’s jazz club in his hometown to his own music throughout the 57 years as a professional musician. As if his Grammy Award with McCoy Tyner in 2005 (‘Illuminations’) wasn’t enough to carve out a place for Bartz in the jazz genre, he has broken the mold with more than 40 solo albums and over 200 as a guest artist.
Eddie Henderson’s wildly diverse and accomplished career began during his first trumpet lessons as a young boy that were given by Louis Armstrong. It was a connection made through the musical careers of Henderson’s parents who were in the entertainment business. A native of New York City, Henderson relocated with his family to San Francisco, and drew the praise of Miles Davis, a friend of the Henderson family who came to know Eddie while visiting his parents during tour stops in town.
Essiet Okon Essiet first received critical acclaim more than a decade ago as a member of saxophonist Bobby Watson’s post hard bop group Horizon. He has long since established himself as one of New York’s premier bassist.
Pianist and composer, Jon Davis, has been performing and touring with many of the finest jazz musicians around the world for more than 25 years. He has appeared on over 50 recordings, and has contributed compositions on many of them. Jon has shown a rare versatility in his abilities, ranging from solo, to Big Band, and everything in between.
