It's one thing to admire and study the music of the bebop era. But Barry Harris lived it, becoming one of Detroit's best jazz pianists in the 1950s before relocating to the New York area — and eventually moving into the New Jersey estate where Thelonious Monk himself resided. But Harris was with old friends here; drummer Leroy Williams has been a collaborator since the 1970s, and bassist Ray Drummond is a regular sight at the Village Vanguard.

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