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HARVIE S (BASSIST)

The legendary Harvie S has performed with many of the masters in music including Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Jim Hall, Michael Brecker, Gil Evans, Arturo O'Farrill, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Houston Person, Pat Metheny, Art Farmer, Toots Thielemans, Tommy Flanagan, Roland Hanna, Dr. Billy Taylor, Joe Lovano, Yusef Lateef, Danilo Perez, Paquito D'Rivera, Ray Barretto and Mark Turner. He can be heard on over several hundred CDs as a sideman, eleven as a leader and another fifteen as a co-leader with such greats as James Brown, Chick Corea, Mike Stern, John Scofield, David Leibman, Tom Harrell, Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers, Kenny Barron, Pat Martino, Joey Baron, Erik Friedlander, Grover Washington Jr., JIm Rotundi, Eric Alexander, David Mathews, Vincent Herring, Eddie Henderson and Joe Locke.

The Sheila Jordan/Harvie S Duo set the standard for bass and voice performance.

Over 100 Harvie S compositions have been recorded on CDs, records and videos.

In addition to his performance career Harvie S has held the jazz bass instructor position at The Manhattan School of Music for both undergraduate and graduate divisions since 1984.

He has been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University, New York University, Yale University, McGill University, Berklee College of Music, SUNY Purchase, Patterson College, the Eisler School in Berlin, The Eastman School of Music, The New England Conservatory, SUNY Plattsburg, The New School and numerous other colleges and universities worldwide.

Harvie is a recipient of many major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, ASCAP and Meet the Composer and the Fund for U.S. Artists.

He has been a guest on NPRs "All Things Considered" and "Fresh Air." His career is documented in Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz, the Grove Dictionary of Jazz and the All Music Guide. Harvie S has written the themes for the documentaries The Trumpet Kings, The Piano Legends and John Coltrane and can been seen and heard on the music videos of Toots Thielemans, Pat Martino, Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Jane Ira Bloom and others.

The Harvie S Trio has played to rave reviews at festivals and clubs worldwide such

as The Iridium, The Blue Note, The Kitano Jazz Club, Sweet Rhythem, The JVC Festival, The Syracuse Jazz Festival, the Lake George Festival Pori Jazz in Finland, IAJE Convention and Festival, The Jazz Improv Live Convention and Festival, The Hudson River Festival, Jazz Forum Arts Festival, Iona College Art at Noon Music and Dance,Philadelphia Museum After Dark Series, Manhattan School of Music Jazz Series, Willam Paterson College, The WBGO Festival, Austria Outreach Festival, Boston Bass Bash, Trumpets Jazz Club, Flushing Town Hall Jazz, Tarrytown Library Jazz, Ossinging Library Jazz, Deerhead Inn, Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival, 606 CLub London, England, Garforth University Jazz, the Zinc Bar, Ryles Jazz, SUNY Purchase Conservatory, Marblehead Jazz Festival, Birdland, Scullers Jazz Club, Hartford Conservatory, Monmouth County Jazz Series and Soundwaters Jazz.

Harvie S CD's include Underneath it All, Urban Earth, Smart Moves, In a Different Light, Full Moon Dancer, It's About Time, Havana Manana,New Beginning, Texas Rumba and Funky Cha.

The Harvie S Band tours Europe this spring and records another CD.

The music from the Harvie S Trio can be best described as Modern Jazz with a elements of Afro-Cuban fire. This bold new music contains the harmonic sophistication of jazz with the extraordinary rhythmic intensity of Latin music to transport the listener to an unexplored musical places--"pushing the boundaries of sound ". (Bryan Zoran, jazzreview.com)

In June of 2008 Harvie S directs the the jazz and tap ("jance") tribute to Lost Shrines:Jazzmania, featuring Phil Woods, at Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

The Harvie S Duo CD with Kenny Barron will be released on High Note records during the summer of 2008.

Harvie S is the select endorser of The Realist pick-up, Czech-ease bass, La Bella Strings, AMT microphones, Acoustic Image amplifliers, Evidence Audio cables.

HARVIE S - FUNKY CHA (2006)

Contemporary Afro-Cuban rhythms in a modern jazz context - played by one of New York's Latin Jazz bassists and his quartet

Harvie S, bass
Daniel Kelly, piano
William “Beaver” Bausch, drums
Jay Collins, tenor & soprano sax, flute
with
Scott Robert Avidon, tenor sax
Philip Dizack, trumpet
Wilson “Chembo” Corniel, Latin percussion
Ernie Colon, Latin percussion