È un musicista jazz che suona sax contralto e sax soprano. Carriera Laureatosi alla prestigiosa Juilliard School, Bartz ha collaborato con Charles Mingus, Art Blakey e i Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Max Roach, e Jackie McLean. A queste prestigiose collaborazioni ha aggiunto una carriera concertistica e di studio come leader di diversi gruppi, tra cui si ricordano gli Ntu Troop, che combinavano musica soul, funk, musica folk Africana, hard bop, e free jazz.
Nel 2005, Bartz vinse un premio Grammy per la sua prestazione nell'album Illuminations di McCoy Tyner.
Bartz è professore all'Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Discografia 1967: Libra. Milestone Records 1968: Another Earth. Milestone Records 1969: Home. Milestone Records 1970: Harlem Bush Music: Taifa. BGP 1971: Uhuru. Milestone Records 1972: Juju Street Songs (Prestige) 1972: Follow the Medicine Man (Prestige) 1972: Standin' On the Corner (Prestige) 1973: I've Known Rivers and Other Bodies (Prestige) 1973: Dr, Follow's Dance (Prestige) 1973: Singerella: A Ghetto Fairy Tale (Prestige) 1974: Altissimo. Nippon Phillips 1975: The Shadow Do! (Prestige) 1976: Juju Man. Catalyst Records 1977: Music Is My Sanctuary. Capital Records 1978: Love Affair. Capitol Records 1978: Love Song. VJ International 1980: Bartz. Arista Records 1988: Monsoon. SteepleChase 1988: Reflections of Monk. SteepleChase 1990: West 42nd Street. Candid Records 1990: There Goes the Neighborhood (Live). Candid Records 1991: Shadows. Timeless Holland 1994: Episode One Children of Harlem. Challenge Records 1994: Red & Orange Poems. Atlantic Records 1995: Alto Memories. Verve Records 1996: Blues Chronicles: Tales of Life. Atlantic Records 1999: Live @ the Jazz Standard, Vol. 1: Soulstice. OYO 2001: The Montreal Concert (Live). SM
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Bartz, Gary