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 jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as ...

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

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Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer. Motian played an important role in freeing jazz drummers from strict time-keeping duties. He first came to prominence in the ...

, Bob Moses and

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, clarinetist David Krakauer, trombonist Ray Anderson, pianist/organist/vocalist

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, and saxophonist/clarinetists

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and

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, among others. Harris has recorded four albums 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 alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to ...

, 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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)

As sideman

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

* 1997 '' Oneness'' * 1999 ''Festival'' (ECM) With

* 2000 ''Malinke's Dance'' (Omnitone) * 2010 ''Fables'' (Tzadik) * 2013 ''A Trumpet in the Morning'' (New World) With

Michael Gregory Jackson Michael Gregory Jackson (born August 28, 1953 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American guitarist and composer working in jazz, R&B, avant-garde, rock, blues, and free jazz. Early in his career, he used his given name, Michael Gregory Jackson. ...

* 1979 ''Gifts'' (Arista Novus) * 1979 ''Hearts & Center'' (Arista Novus) With David Krakauer * 2012 '' Pruflas: Book of Angels Volume 18'' (

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

) * 2016 ''Checkpoint'' With

Oliver Lake Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black ...

* 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

* 1986 ''Country Girl'' (Minor Music) * 1989 ''In Touch'' (Novus) * 1993 ''Women in (E)Motion '' With

* 1990 ''Empty Suits'' (

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) * 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 ''

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'' (Milestone) * 1987 '' Dancing in the Dark'' (Milestone) * 1989 '' Falling in Love with Jazz'' (Milestone) * 1991 '' Here's to the People'' (Milestone) * 1991 '' Don't Stop the Carnival'' (Milestone) With

Ned Rothenberg Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known ...

* 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 Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for t ...

* 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 William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. Frisell first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of context ...

, '' 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 Mark Helias (born October 1, 1950) is an American double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He started playing the double bass at the age of 20, and studied with Homer Mensch at Rutgers University from 1971 to 1974, then ...

, ''Desert Blue'' (Enja) * 1992

Jeanne Lee Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with nu