Eddie Harris
- MatchEddie Harris
- 100%Les McCann
- 97%Charles Earland
- 81%Lou Donaldson
- 73%Gene Ammons
- 62%Jimmy McGriff
- 61%Lee Konitz
- 59%Jimmy Smith
- 59%Stanley Turrentine
- 58%Lee Morgan
- 55%Grant Green
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 Golds 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... Read more