![]() He had to be assisted on playing the first Monk tune but by the second tune, it came together, as he implemented those lingering improvisational chord structures. Standing ovations greeted him as he was assisted on stage. Last month in November, this writer had the pleasure of seeing him at a concert celebrating NEA Jazz Masters at Flushing Town Hall in Queens. ![]() He continued to lead classes on Zoom for about 100 international students until two weeks before his death. Harris had been hospitalized for the last two weeks and died of complications due to COVID, said Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske, who was part of a small support team of friends and students that helped Harris in recent years. Barry Harris, the bandleader, composer, educator and bebop piano perfectionist and interpreter, who kept the idiom alive on stages throughout the world and taught his music fundamentals to thousands of students for seven decades, died on December 8, at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J.
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