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Jazz Club: Pat Harbison Luke Gillespie, Keyboard Jim Donaldson, Reporter For the first set, the quartet played two up-tempo bebop tunes by Charlie Parker, the post bop Invitation, the ballad Body and Soul, and the standard It Could Happen To You. Highlights included Harbison’s trumpet work displaying great creativity within the context of mainstream jazz. Harbison showed his mastery of all of the idioms, whether the blazing bebop, the post-bop, or the ballad. The group worked well In the second set, Harbison threw open the stage to anyone wishing to jam. The only trumpet player brave enough to take advantage of the opportunity was Nathan Botts, of Provo, Utah, one of the four finalists in this year’s ITG Jazz Improvisation Contest. He joined Harbison on Night and Day. The Harbison rhythm section was then replaced by the group backing Tiger Okoshi and Ingrid Jensen at conference performances later this week, and included Daniela Schacheter, piano, Justin Puerill, bass, and Sam Duhsler, drums. They began with Wayne Shorter’s Footprints, with Botts and Harbison each soloing extensively, and finished with What is that Thing Called Love. All participants played extremely well and the audience enjoyed the performance immensely. Harbison helped to bring the first day of the 2001 ITG Conference to a successful close. |
 PAT HARBISONJazz trumpet artist and educator Pat Harbison is perhaps best known for his 26-year association with Jamey Aebersold’s Summer Jazz Workshops. He is also associate professor of jazz studies at Indiana University. An experienced and creative jazz trumpet artist, Harbison performs with his own quartet, “InterPlay,” as a duo with pianist Luke Gillespie and as a member of the Jamey Aebersold quintet and sextet. His books, including Technical Studies for the Modern Trumpet and Twenty Authentic Bebop Solos, are used by trumpeters around the world and are published by Jamey Aebersold. Harbison holds degrees from the University of Louisville and Indiana University. His principal trumpet teachers were William Adam, Leon Rapier, Carmine Caruso and Dominic Spera. His principal jazz teachers were David Baker, Jamey Aebersold and John McNeil. |
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Jamie Aebersold collaborator Pat Harbison on trumpet. Harbison was backed up with a rhythm section comprised of Luke Gillespie on piano, Jason Tiemann on drums and Tyrone Wheeler on bass. 
together, particularly when Harbison traded ideas with other members of the group. It is easy to see why he has had great success as a jazz educator. He has mastered each of the various jazz idioms, and he combines a clear knowledge of harmony and jazz theory with creativity. Never was his playing academic or dry.