Barry HarrisThe method

Tunes he taught

Clockwise

Barry’s own tune

Clockwise is on Barry’s 1968 Prestige album Bull’s Eye!, credited to the Barry Harris Sextet, though one upload lists the track as a trio with Paul Chambers and Billy Higgins. A clip from his 2016 Rome workshop is titled ‘Clockwise’, but its garbled, partly Italian captions never name the tune, so we cannot say what he taught through it.

moments in class
3
recordings
1
Barry plays it
2

In class

Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.

Clockwise

Rome, 2010–19

  1. 0:00

    Counts the class in; the uploader titled the clip Clockwise, but the captions never name the tune.

    Watch on YouTube

  2. 3:00

    Garbled, partly Italian captions: something about borrowing, then ‘resolve it’.

    Watch on YouTube at 3:00

  3. 4:08

    Through the garble: hit a chord, then ask what scale it comes from.

    3.3

    Watch on YouTube at 4:08

Barry plays it

In the method

The ideas of the method these moments show, and how many moments each.

  1. 3.3Every chord takes the scale it comes from1