page_title: Harry Carney
section_title: Influence and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Carney / Influence and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Jimmy Hamilton and Harry Carney, Aquarium, NYC, ca November 1946. Photography by William P. Gottlieb
context_page_description: Harry Howell Carney was a jazz saxophonist and clarinettist who spent over four decades as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He played a variety of instruments but primarily used the baritone saxophone, being a critical influence on the instrument in jazz.
context_section_description: Carney was an early jazz proponent of circular breathing. He was also Hamiet Bluiett's favorite baritone player because he "never saw anybody else stop time" in reference to a concert Bluiett attended where Carney held a note during which all else went silent.
  Two months after Carney's death, bassist Charles Mingus recorded Sy Johnson's elegy "For Harry Carney"; the track was released on the album Changes Two.
caption: Jimmy Hamilton and Harry Carney, Aquarium NYC, c. November 1946. Photo by William P. Gottlieb.
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