Barry HarrisThe method

Tunes he taught

Ornithology

Barry recorded and performed Ornithology, but in the transcribed classes he names it only once, in passing, and no lesson built on the tune was found.

moments in class
2
recordings
2
Barry plays it
5

In class

Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.

Feeling the ‘and’

The Hague, 1989–98

  1. 9:59

    Hague class: recalling the blues melody they are about to play, he says he has Ornithology on the brain (the title is clear only in the old captions).

    Watch on YouTube at 9:59

Interview: tap dance and bebop

various, 1987–2019

  1. 18:29

    The podcast host, not Barry, plays part of a Charlie Parker recording of Ornithology as an example of bebop.

    Watch on YouTube at 18:29

Barry plays it