Joe Brazil
saxophone
Detroit saxophonist, later of Seattle, at whose house Barry and his young peers held jam sessions in roughly 1949 to 1952.
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What Barry says
Recalling his years coming up in Detroit, Barry says they practised and jammed a great deal, going to clubs and sessions, and used to go to the house of a saxophonist named Joe Brazil, who later moved to Seattle.
Victor L. Schermer (interviewer); Barry Harris, Barry Harris: Iconic Jazz Pianist and Keeper of the Flame ¶8Victor L. Schermer (interviewer); Barry Harris, Barry Harris: Iconic Jazz Pianist and Keeper of the Flame ¶9
Barry had heard a rumour that recordings of the jam sessions at Brazil’s house, from about 1949 to 1952, had recently been found, and hoped they would be released so he could hear whether they really played that well.
In his own words
We used to go to the house of a saxophonist named Joe Brazil, who eventually moved to Seattle.
I heard a rumor that they recently found recordings of jam sessions we had at his house between around 1949 and 1952.
I hope that they are released, so I can listen to it and hear if we really played that good.
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Barry names saxophonist Joe Brazil’s house as one of the places he and his Detroit friends gathered to jam, roughly from 1949 to 1952, and says he had heard that tapes of those sessions had turned up.