Beaver Harris

William Godvin "Beaver" Harris ( born April 20, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † 22 December 1991 in New York ) was an American jazz drummer.

Harris played as a teenager, clarinet and alto saxophone. He was a baseball player in the professional leagues ( on this activity is also his nickname back ). During his time in the army, he moved to the drum set. He then moved in 1963 to New York City where it Max Roach encouraged to try a career as a musician and he worked with Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard. In 1966 he played with Archie Shepp, with whom he undertook a tour of Europe, and in 1968 the Impulse album The Way Ahead recorded. He giggte with Albert Ayler and then worked with Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, and Clark Terry. In the late 1960s he founded gemeinsamit with Graham Monchur III, the cooperative operating free-jazz ensemble 360 Degree Experience. During this time he took with Steve Lacy, Larry Coryell and the Jazz Composers Orchestra. Harris also led to theater music: He was with Shepp on LeRoi Jones Slave Ship (1970 ) and Aishah Rahman's Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy involved. In 1973, he was with Gato Barbieri, Lee Konitz and Shepp on tour in Japan.

Auswahldiskographie

• Beaver Harris: Negcaumongus - with Don Pullen, Hamiet Bluiett, Ricky Ford, Francis Haynes, Ken McIntyre, Cameron Brown ( 1979)
• Beaver Harris: 360 ° Experience - A Well - Kept Secret - with Don Pullen, Bill Warnick, Greg Williams, Willie Ruff, Candido Camero, Sharon Freeman, Hamiet Bluiett, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams, Francis Haynes (1980 )

• Jazz drummer
• American musician
• Born in 1936
• Died in 1991
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