George Barrow

George Barrow (born September 21, 1921 in New York City , † March 19, 2013 in West Village ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor and baritone saxophone , also flute , clarinet ).

Live and act

Barrow grew up in Staten Island and East Harlem. He first worked at the post office and the port and as a bus driver and began a career as a boxer at Cus D'Amato . At the age of 23 he decided to become a musician and learned to play the saxophone and other woodwind instruments as an autodidact . He first played with Willis Jackson and was part of Charles Mingus' band in the mid-1950s ; He came across the legendary Tentet of Teddy Charles through the Jazz Composers Workshop initiated by them . In 1957 he led a quartet with David Amram , with whom he recorded an album. Then he joined Ernie Wilkins ; he also recorded with Big Maybelle , Gene Ammons , Etta James , Frank Wess , Clark Terry and Warren Smith . He also played in the big bands of Reuben Phillips , Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Oliver Nelson , who, because of his precise baritone playing, also included him in his central production, The Blues and the Abstract Truth . Avant-gardists like Bill Dixon also used him for their recordings; with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra he can be heard on albums by Michael Mantler and Clifford Thornton . As a job he played in the ensemble of the Apollo Theater ; from the 1970s he focused on Broadway .

Eric Barrow, the editor of the Daily News Sunday Sports , is his son.

The Amram-Barrow Quartet Jazz Studio Six (with Arthur Phipps , Al Harewood ; 1957)