Harold McKinney
piano
Harold McKinney was a Detroit pianist of Barry’s generation from the musical McKinney family; as boys he and Barry both had the preacher Neptune Holloway as their first teacher, and Barry, not yet 21, would go over to the west side with him and Ray McKinney.
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- recordings
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- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Barry says the first teacher for young Detroit musicians like himself, Harold McKinney and Dorothy Ashby was a preacher, Neptune Holloway. He remembers a photograph of Holloway’s pupils that he thinks shows Ashby, himself and McKinney, another Detroit pianist.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶102Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶158
The friends went to different high schools: Harold McKinney and his crowd went to Northwestern, while Barry went to Northeastern.
In his late teens, around his year at college, Barry started hanging out on Detroit’s west side, where he met four McKinneys: Harold, Ray, Clarence and Bernard, later known as Kiane Zawadi.
Before he turned 21, Barry would go over to the west side with Harold and Ray McKinney, mostly hanging out with Ray. At the Bluebird he knocked on the window, and when the house pianist left the stand he ran in, played a song and ran out again.
When Barry names Kiane among those who came to his house, he places him in the McKinney family, ‘Harold and all them people’, as part of the real community the Detroit musicians had.
The last train to Monk: an interview8:26
In his own words
the first teacher for us in Detroit like Harold McKinney and, Dorothy Ashby – our first teacher was a preacher. His name was Neptune Holloway.
I think Dorothy Ashby was in that picture, myself, Harold McKinney who was another piano player from Detroit
I used to go over to the west side with Harold McKinney, Ray McKinney, ‘cause I hung out with Ray.
Harold McKennie and his bunch went to Northwestern, and Eddie Locke and his bunch went to Miller High School.
Keani is a member of the McKinney family, you know, Harold and all them people there. So we had a really community thing.
Every mention
4 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
The last train to Monk: an interview
- 8:26
Kiane belongs to the McKinney family, ‘Harold and all them people’; a real community.
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future
- 39:54
Someone else
A Detroit musician recalls a period when he worked with Aretha Franklin and with Harold McKinney.
- 41:06
Someone else
The same musician links Harold McKinney (‘makinia’) to work with a Detroit arts organisation; captions garbled.
- 2:12
Someone else
A narrator’s roll of great pianists includes a ‘McKinney’, probably Harold; captions garbled.
In the interviews and notes
Barry says the first teacher for Detroit youngsters like himself, Harold McKinney and Dorothy Ashby was the preacher Neptune Holloway.
Barry says many of them took lessons from Neptune Holloway, some of them classical lessons, and recalls a photograph that he thinks shows Dorothy Ashby, himself and Harold McKinney, another Detroit pianist.
Asked whether his friends went to the same school, Barry says Harold McKinney and his crowd went to Northwestern, he to Northeastern.
On Detroit’s west side in his late teens Barry met Harold McKinney along with Ray, Clarence and Bernard McKinney.
Before he was 21 Barry went to the west side with Harold and Ray McKinney and would dash into the Bluebird to play a song while the house pianist took a break.
Recalling who he played with in Detroit, Barry names Kiane Zawadi and a Luther McKinney, and says he mentioned Harold McKinney, the brother, earlier.
De Lima lists Harold McKinney among the teachers of Barry’s early years and among the Detroit musicians whose teaching shaped him. In the oral history itself, Barry names McKinney as a fellow pupil of Neptune Holloway rather than as his teacher.
Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶687Brian Jude de Lima, Reanimating Dissonance: Cultivating the Antecedents of Barry Harris’ Concept of Movement as a Multidimensional Pedagogical Tool for Ontario Post-Secondary Jazz Curricula ¶1345Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶102
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