Bobby Rogovin
trumpet
Trumpeter with a good ear from Barry’s classes at the Jazz Cultural Theatre; when he played back the phrases Barry sang, Barry knew his own singing of phrases had improved.
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Asked how his choirs began, Barry traces them to the Jazz Cultural Theatre, where he had horn classes and singing classes. At first he could not sing, or even hum phrases well enough for the students to catch them.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶284Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶285
The change came with Bobby Rogovin, a trumpeter with a good ear who, Barry notes, is still around. In perhaps the second or third year Barry sang phrases and Rogovin played them straight back, and Barry knew then that he had improved.
In his own words
there was a trumpet player – he’s still around, too, Bobby Rogovin, he had a good ear.
I started singing the phrases, and he started playing them right back at me. I said, “aha!”
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Barry traces his choirs to the singing and horn classes of the Jazz Cultural Theatre. He could barely hum a phrase at first, but by the second or third year the trumpeter Bobby Rogovin, who had a good ear, could play back what Barry sang, showing him he had improved.