Dale Barlow

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Dale Barlow (born December 25, 1959 in Sydney , Australia ) is an Australian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , composition) who has a hard bop tradition.

Barlow played the piano as a child and then learned classical flute and clarinet. He then discovered the alto saxophone and switched to tenor at the age of eighteen. Then he studied jazz at the New South Wales Conservatory . In 1979 he played at the Monterey Jazz Festival with a young Australian band; then he recorded with Peter O'Mara . In 1982 and 1983 he continued his studies in New York City . Then he worked with Sonny Stitt , Art Blakey , Richie Cole , Cedar Walton , Indra Lesmana, Billy Cobham , Dizzy Gillespie , Paul Grabowsky , Adrian Mears and Billy Higgins , with whom he was partly on tour in Europe. In Europe he also led his own groups.

Discographic notes

  • Hipnotation (Spiral Scratch Records 1990, with Eddie Henderson )
  • Horn (Spiral Scratch Records, 1990)
  • Jazz Juice (Hipnotation Records, 1992)
  • Dale Barlow / George Coleman, Jr. / Mark Fitzgibbon / Sam Anning: Treat Me Gentle (Jazzhead, 2007)
  • Dale Barlow Live (JazzHead Oz, 2008)
  • Where We Live (Hipnotation Records)

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