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Start with I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies (1973) album, revered Ntu Troop live album recorded at Montreux
Bio
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American alto and soprano saxophonist first exposed to jazz through his parents' Baltimore nightclub. A Juilliard-trained, two-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master, he has worked with Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Miles Davis and McCoy Tyner, and led the influential Ntu Troop, which fused soul, funk, African music and spiritual jazz