Eddie Harris

Eddie Harris ( born October 20, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, † November 5, 1996 in Los Angeles ) was an American tenor saxophonist. Although he was one of the most popular jazz musicians of his day and the first to receive a gold record for a single from his album Exodus to Jazz, his inclusion of various styles of music into jazz and comedic moments in his performances by many jazz critics was taken as the occasion, it not to be regarded as a serious jazz musician. His composition Freedom Jazz Dance developed at the end of the 1960s jazz standard.

Life

Harris grew up in Chicago and how other successful Chicago musicians, including Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Clifford Jordan, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons, Julian Priester and Bo Diddley, he studied music with Walter Dyett on the DuSable High School. Later, he studied music at Roosevelt College; at that time he was already playing successfully piano, vibraphone and tenor saxophone. This period also saw the first professional appearances coincide with Gene Ammons. After attending college, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. During his time in Europe he played in the 7th Army band, where Don Ellis, Leo Wright, and Cedar Walton played.

Work

End of the 60s experimented Harris, who can be regarded as a pioneer of fusion music, with an electrified saxophone ( LPs The electrifying Eddie Harris and Plug me in ). He also developed the so-called reed and the reed trumpet trombone by the Blechblasmundstücke exchanged by Saxophone Mouthpieces at those. ( So that the mouthpiece fits, you have to let cork the brass instrument before, that is, it receives a Korkrand. ) This allowed Harris to apply its exceptionally safe Überblas technology in the Clarin - range of the tenor saxophone to the natural tones of the brass instruments, such as Carnival on I Need Some Money ( 1975). He also presented to attempt to play the saxophone with bassoon mouthpieces. The Hit Compared to What the live recording Swiss Movement with Les McCann at the Montreux Jazz Festival is on June 21, 1969 as one of the best jazz / funk LPs from the 1960s. Harris was further known by his African -inspired vocal techniques yodel -like scat singing.

An early trip to the jazz-rock musicians with the group Yes, and with Albert Lee, Jeff Beck and Steve Winwood was both artistically and commercially unsuccessful. About its relative obscurity with the general public, he makes fun of humorous in the title Eddie Who? ( eponymous CD, Timeless ).

Eddie Harris worked throughout his career with a variety of well-known jazz and rock musicians, among others, with John Scofield ( " Hand Jive ").

Recordings (selection)

  • "Exodus to Jazz ," Vee -Jay 1961, 1987 Carli Records
  • "A study in Jazz"
  • " Breakfeast for Tiffanys "
  • " Eddie Harris bossa nova " 1963
  • " The In Sound", Atlantic 1965
  • "The Electrifiying Eddie Harris ", 1968 ( Atlantic Records )
  • "Plug Me In", 1968 ( Atlantic Records )
  • " Swiss Movement "; 1969 ( CD 1996); with Les McCann
  • " Come on Down", 1970 Atlantic Records
  • "Instant Death", 1972 ( Atlantic Records )
  • "In The U.K. " / "Is It In "; 1973 ( CD 1999); with Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Chris Squire, Alan White, Tony Kaye, Rufus Reid, Ronald Muldrow
  • " I Need Some Money"; , 1975; with Ronald Muldrow
  • " Bad Luck Is All I Have" in 1975 Atlantic Records
  • " That is why you're overweight", 1976 Atlantic Records
  • " I'm Tired of Driving "; 1979
  • "The Real Electrifying " Mutt & Jeff 1982 Recording Corp.
  • " Eddie who? "; 1986 Timeless Records, with Ralphe Armstrong, Sherman Ferguson
  • "People get Funny ", 1987 Timeless Records
  • "Live in Berlin", 1989 Timeless Records
  • " There Was a Time ( Echo of Harlem )"; 1990
  • " Listen Here "; 1993
  • " The Battle of the Tenors "; 1994, Wendell Harrison
  • "The Last Concert"; CD, 1997; with the WDR Big Band Cologne
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