Kirk Lightsey
piano
Kirk Lightsey, a Detroit jazz pianist younger than Barry, was one of the younger players in Barry’s Detroit circle who came to his house; Barry says Lightsey learned from him.
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What Barry says
Barry names Kirk Lightsey and Hugh Lawson as ‘the younger cats’ who were part of the Detroit circle, along with the bassist Doug Watkins and Frank Gant, all of whom came to his house.
Listing the Detroit musicians who studied with him, among them Joe Henderson, Yusef Lateef, the Motown bassist James Jamerson and the pianist Johnny Griffith, Barry says Kirk Lightsey learned from him.
In his own words
Then the younger cats, you know, Kirk Lightsey, Hugh Lawson was part of it.
Yusef Lateef started taking lessons, Kirk Lightsey learned from me.
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Barry places Kirk Lightsey and Hugh Lawson among the younger members of his Detroit circle, the players who came through his house.
Barry counts Lightsey among those he taught in Detroit, with Joe Henderson, Yusef Lateef, James Jamerson and Johnny Griffith.
The profile names Lightsey, with Tommy Flanagan, Hugh Lawson and Roland Hanna, among Barry’s fellow pianists in Detroit, where Barry held house gigs at the Blue Bird Inn, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and the Rouge Lounge.
unknown (JazzTimes; the byline is missing on the current site), Barry Harris: Teacher Man ¶7