Barry HarrisThe method

Tunes he taught

Just Friends

No class in the archive has Barry working on Just Friends. He recorded it with Sonny Stitt, and in the Spirit of Bebop documentary it comes up as the Charlie Parker record that came nearest to a hit, just before Barry recalls hearing Bird with strings.

moments in class
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recordings
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Barry plays it
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In class

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

The Spirit of Bebop

USA, 1999

  1. 53:01

    Documentary: a speaker, not clearly Barry, calls Parker’s Just Friends the record that came nearest to a hit.

    Watch on YouTube at 53:01

Barry plays it