Larry Ridley
bass
Bassist; one of the partners who, with Barry, Jim Harrison and a man named Fuente, opened the Jazz Cultural Theater on Eighth Avenue in New York.
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- recordings
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- Barry speaking
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What Barry says
Barry had saved some money and wanted to buy a little brownstone uptown, but Larry Ridley, Jim Harrison and Fuente, a non-musician whose first name Barry forgot, talked him into going in with them on the Jazz Cultural Theater.
The last train to Monk: an interview27:13
Barry calls the theatre an idea that he, Ridley and a couple of others had. They opened it on Eighth Avenue after the Jazz Forum closed and kept it going for five years, with Barry’s classes and entertainment at weekends.
Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶141Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶271
By Barry’s account he ended up there largely by himself: the others were gone, though Jim Harrison and his wife stayed and helped. The rent was $3,000 a month, and he says he put over $200,000 into the place in five years.
The last train to Monk: an interview28:0928:49Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶273
In his own words
I really wanted to buy that little brownstone too. but Larry Ridley and Jim Harrison and Fuente ... they talked me into going in with them for the Jazz Culture Theater.
Well, it was just an idea. Larry Ridley and myself and a couple of other people had an idea, and we opened it up.
Jazz Forum closed – me and Larry Ridley, and a couple more people, Jim Harrison and Fuente, we opened a place on 8th avenue.
Every mention
1 moments in the recordings, 1 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
The last train to Monk: an interview
- 27:13
Ridley, Jim Harrison and Fuente talked Barry into joining them to open the Jazz Cultural Theater.
In the interviews and notes
Asked about the Jazz Cultural Theater, Barry says it began as an idea shared by Larry Ridley, himself and a couple of others. It ran five years, with classes, weekend shows, tap and shake dancers, Jaki Byard’s big band every month, and Sun Ra.
Barry tells Aaron Graves that after the Jazz Forum closed, he, Larry Ridley, Jim Harrison and Fuente opened a place on Eighth Avenue where he taught; the hard part was paying the rent of $3,000 a month.
Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶271Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶273
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