Eddie Harris

Genres:	Jazz
Decades Active:	1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Search for Artist on:	OLDIES.com, Wikipedia, Flikr (photos), YouTube (videos)
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Biography

20 October 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 5 November 1996, Los Angeles, California, USA. Harris' apprenticeship was served with Gene Ammons before army service took to him to Europe. He had a surprise hit in 1961 with an arrangement of Ernest Gold's Exodus theme, and followed with three further hit records (in the USA) over the next decade, the most notable being "Listen Here" in 1968. He was a daring tenor saxophone innovator, experimenting with the range of sounds that could be produced by sending a signal through an electrical effects box. At the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival he shocked audiences with his trumpet and trombone played through saxophone mouthpieces, before leaving jazz in the early 70s to play in a rock context with Steve Winwood and Jeff Beck. During this period he also recorded stand-up comedy albums.

Because of his work outside the jazz field Harris was often overlooked by the cognoscenti. His work as a theme composer...

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