Harvie S

Harvie S, formerly known as Harvie Swartz, is an American jazz bassist who has been a mainstay of the New York scene since the early 1970s. Born in 1948, he took up the bass at nineteen, studied at Berklee College of Music, and moved to New York in 1972, where he worked with figures including Gil Evans, Lee Konitz, Steve Kuhn, and Paul Motian. He is celebrated for his long duo partnership with singer Sheila Jordan and for leading his own groups, among them Urban Earth, and has appeared on hundreds of recordings as a sideman. Since 1984 he has taught jazz bass at the Manhattan School of Music.