Flip Phillips
tenor saxophone
Tenor saxophonist known from Jazz at the Philharmonic; Barry accompanied him for a week as house pianist at the Rouge Lounge, just outside Detroit, in the 1950s.
- mentions
- 4
- recordings
- 3
- Barry speaking
- 4
What Barry says
Barry worked a week with Flip Phillips at the Rouge Lounge in River Rouge, a little outside Detroit, where he was house pianist and also played a week with Lester Young. Of all the visiting names from that time, Young and Phillips are the ones he is sure of.
Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York8:23Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland6:42Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶68Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶70Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶234
Because of his Jazz at the Philharmonic image, Barry says, you might take Phillips for a honking tenor player, but a week with him showed how well he could really play.
Straight after praising Phillips, Barry says those players had a golden era of music, a time with a surprising number of good musicians, and moves on to Coleman Hawkins.
Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York8:57
In a documentary he lists Phillips with Prez and Nancy Wilson among the visiting stars he accompanied in Detroit for a week at a time.
The Spirit of Bebop25:11
In his own words
One would think of Flip Phillips as being maybe the honking tenor player. He was the one that would honk or do something like that. But you know, I worked with Flip Phillips for a week. He could play so good, man.
Put Flip Phillips in there. I don’t know about all those names you called. I know about Lester Young and Flip Phillips. That’s what I remember.
I guess it was in River Rouge, which was a little bit out. I played there with Flip Phillips, I played with Lester
I accompanied Flip Phillips, I accompanied Nancy Wilson for a week. You know, people like that.
Every mention
4 moments in the recordings, 4 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Interview: Bird, Hawkins, Monk and New York
Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland
- 6:42
Tells Marian McPartland he played a week with Flip Phillips at the Rouge Lounge.
The Spirit of Bebop
- 25:11
Lists Phillips with Prez and Nancy Wilson among visiting players he accompanied in Detroit.
In the interviews and notes
Barry describes the Rouge Lounge as just a jazz club in River Rouge, a little outside Detroit, where he played with Flip Phillips, with Lester Young and with more people than he can now name.
When Panken reads a liner note naming Konitz, Young, Eldridge and Webster as Barry’s on-the-job training, Barry asks him to add Phillips: Young and Phillips are the players he actually remembers.
Panken writes that, apart from a few months touring with Max Roach, Barry spent the rest of the 1950s in Detroit, playing week-long engagements at local clubs behind visiting soloists such as Lester Young, Phillips and Nancy Wilson.
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.