Jerome Harris (born April 5, 1953) is an American

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musician specializing in electric and acoustic

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, electric

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, voice, and occasionally

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and small percussion. He came to prominence in 1978 playing bass guitar and guitar with tenor saxophonist

Sonny Rollins Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded over sixt ...

, with whom he would perform and record intermittently until the mid-1990s. Harris went on to work with drummers

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, Bob Moses and Bobby Previte, clarinetist David Krakauer, trombonist Ray Anderson, pianist/organist/vocalist Amina Claudine Myers, and saxophonist/clarinetists Don Byron, Marty Ehrlich and Hayes Greenfield. Harris has recorded as a bandleader. ''Hidden in Plain View'' (1995), a tribute to saxophonist

Eric Dolphy Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and bandleader. Primarily an alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and flautist, Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain ...

, is described by critic Michael G. Nastos as "the finest ecordingof Harris' small discography."

Discography

As leader

* 1986 ''Algorithms'' (Minor Music) * 1990 ''In Passing'' (Muse) * 1995 ''Hidden in Plain View'' (

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) * 1999 ''Rendezvous'' (Stereophile)

As sideman

With Ray Anderson * 1994 '' Don't Mow Your Lawn'' (Enja) * 1998 ''Funkorific'' (Enja) With

* 1997 '' Oneness'' * 1999 ''Festival'' (ECM) With Marty Ehrlich * 2000 ''Malinke's Dance'' (Omnitone) * 2010 ''Fables'' (Tzadik) * 2013 ''A Trumpet in the Morning'' (New World) With Michael Gregory Jackson * 1979 ''Gifts'' (Arista Novus) * 1979 ''Hearts & Center'' (Arista Novus) With David Krakauer * 2012 '' Pruflas: Book of Angels Volume 18'' (

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) * 2016 ''Checkpoint'' With

Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American List of jazz saxophonists, jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano saxophone, soprano and flute. D ...

* 1982 ''Jump Up'' (Gramavision) * 1983 ''Plug It'' (Gramavision) With Bob Moses * 1984 ''Visit with the Great Spirit'' (Gramavision) * 1987 ''The Story of Moses'' (Gramavision) With Amina Claudine Myers * 1986 ''Country Girl'' (Minor Music) * 1989 ''In Touch'' (Novus) * 1993 ''Women in (E)Motion '' With Bobby Previte * 1990 ''Empty Suits'' ( Gramavision) * 1991 ''Music of the Moscow Circus'' (Gramavision) * 1994 '' Slay the Suitors'' (

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) * 1997 ''My Man in Sydney'' (Enja) * 1998 ''Dangerous Rip'' (Enja) With

Hank Roberts Hank Roberts (born March 24, 1954, Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown Ne ...

* 1990 ''

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'' (JMT) * 2011 ''Everything Is Alive'' (Winter & Winter) With

* 1979 '' Don't Ask'' (Milestone) * 1987 '' Dancing in the Dark'' (Milestone) * 1989 '' Falling in Love with Jazz'' (Milestone) * 1991 ''

Here's to the People ''Here's to the People'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1991, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris, Bob Cranshaw, Roy Hargrove, Jack DeJohnette, ...

'' (Milestone) * 1991 '' Don't Stop the Carnival'' (Milestone) With Ned Rothenberg * 1991 ''Overlays'' (Moers) * 1995 ''Real and Imagined Time'' (Moers) * 1998 ''Port of Entry'' (Intuition) * 2004 ''Parting'' (Moers) * 2004 ''Harbinger'' (Animul) * 2007 ''Inner Diaspora'' (Tzadik) With Adam Rudolph * 2011 ''Both/And'' (Meta) * 2015 ''Turning Towards the Light'' (Cuneiform) With Bob Stewart * 1989 '' Goin' Home'' (JMT) * 1996 ''Then and Now'' (Postcards) * 2014 ''Mind the Gap'' (Sunnyside) With others * 1980

Jon Hassell Jon Hassell (March 22, 1937 – June 26, 2021) was an American trumpet player and composer. He was best known for developing the concept of "Fourth World" music, which describes a "unified primitive/futurist sound" combining elements of various w ...

and

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, '' Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics'' (Editions EG) * 1983 George Russell, '' Live in an American Time Spiral'' (Soul Note) * 1985 Bill Frisell, '' Rambler'' (ECM) * 1985 Jay Hoggard, ''Riverside Dance'' (India Navigation) * 1988

Julius Hemphill Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute. Biography Hemphill was born in Fort Worth, Texas, ...

, '' Julius Hemphill Big Band'' (Elektra Musician) * 1989 Mark Helias, ''Desert Blue'' (Enja) * 1992 Jeanne Lee, ''Natural Affinities'' (Owl) * 1993 John Clark, ''Il Suono'' (CMP) * 1994 Robert Dick, ''Third Stone from the Sun'' (New World) * 1994 Henry Threadgill, '' Song Out of My Trees'' (Black Saint) * 1998 Pheeroan Aklaff, ''Global Mantras ''(Modern Masters) * 2000 Don Byron, ''A Fine Line'' (Blue Note) * 2001 Thurman Barker, ''Time Factor '' * 2004 Sam Newsome, ''24/7'' (Satchmo) * 2005

, ''

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'' ( ECM) * 2013 Jaki Byard, ''Inch by Inch'' (GM) * 2014 Roy Nathanson, ''Complicated Day'' (Enja) * 2021 Julius Hemphill, '' The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony'' (New World)

References

External links

Official site
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