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Billy Harper

Presented by Montgomery County Community College at Montgomery County Community College

October 15, 2011

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Billy Harper is one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists who actually built upon the master's work, rather than simply copy it. His 1973 album Capra Black “remains one of the seminal recordings of jazz's black consciousness movement--a profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant garde as well as the emotional potency of gospel". Billy Harper's album, Black Saint exploded on the international jazz scene in 1976. The reviews all applauded his innovations and prompted the Modern Jazz League of Tokyo to name the album, "Jazz Record of the Year - Voice Grand Prix".  He performed, recorded and toured Europe, Japan, Africa and throughout the United States from 1966 to 1979 with Gil Evans, Max Roach, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, as well as his own Billy Harper Quintet. Recognized by the National Endowment of the Arts he is a gifted composer, and has received the International Critics Award for Tenor Saxophone for two years consecutively.

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