All of his albums wander into some sonically pretty interesting waters, with Eddie singing through his sax and some marvelously clanky (but funky) rhythmns.
Is it just me?
― Braces Tower, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
my fave album is excursions, for the tracks 'drunk man' - really good electric sax stuff and the funky groove of which you speak, and 'fragmentary apparitions' which is very beautiful
― Ron, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
and his most popular song is v. good also 'compared to what' with les mccann on the swiss movement lp
― Mark, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
And Get On Up And Dance is one of my favourite EH tunes - nine or so minutes of funky bliss.
Otherwise I only have the In Sound/Mean Greens twofer, which is mainly good for Freedom Jazz Dance and Mean Greens. What else should I check out?
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 8 February 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
WHOO! I think that may be his wife...on the cover of one of his other albums (titled something like FREE SPEECH?), he's shown posing with her.
You gotta admire Harris for being more adventurous than the typical soul-jazz guy...the albums I have by him are uneven, but when he was on, he was on.
His comedy album (THE REASON WHY I'M TALKING S--T) isn't bad in and of itself...
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Damn. Sorry Eddie.
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
plug me in is a such a winner!! best album I've bought in months
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 May 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
(extremely careful evaluation has been employed to reach this conclusion)
just DYING the other day listening to this. DYING. found this pristine vinyl copy and i played it loud and was so in love it was all i could play all day:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31991XD7Q9L._SS500_.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 9 March 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"i don't want nobody" might have to be my official jam of the year. (i thought it was gonna be brothers johnson dubbed-out cover of "come together", but i think i gotta go with eddie...)
― scott seward, Monday, 9 March 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, and I thought I had all the Eddie Harris I needed (I own like ten of his albums) ( but I don't have that one!)
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
on the want list
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 10 March 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wLSlaP8MOQ
I mentioned this upthread. one of my favorite jazz tracks ever, and yet nothing else on the album (or anything else I've heard from Harris) sounds remotely like it
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Eddie who?
― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
that recording is amazing...so minimal, and the effects are so central to the playing (not at all tacked on)
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I know right? it's such a great marriage of riffs and effects, really hypnotic, beautifully constructed
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 January 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
getting blazed with this record and a pair of headphones = FYM ASMD, no better way to spend a Friday night.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 24 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
Oh by "this record" I meant Live At Newport.. Like I said, blazed.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 24 September 2011 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Live at Newport. So hard to track down for some reason. Was it ever reissued?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFHkVXt47fI
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Friday, 26 April 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Man, "I Need Some Money" is such a great album. I mean not like grab you by the shirt and shake you great, just a relaxed, funky gem.
"i don't want nobody" might have to be my official jam of the year.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YWDsZrIV_A
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I mean, goddamn what a song. Almost sounds like something Robert Wyatt could've been involved with.
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 07:25 (eight years ago) link
bloody hell i enjoyed that.a perfect feel good sunny morning groove.a few weeks ago i spotted the 'silver cycles' reissue in the racks, very tempted to get it if its still there.ta.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 09:00 (eight years ago) link
Silver Cycles is worth having just for the title track
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:47 (eight years ago) link
wasn't in the racks today, but wil keep an eye out for it.(think my local fopp may have it .. off to check tomorrow)
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
This record is a stunner too.
http://www.discogs.com/Eddie-Harris-Les-McCann-Second-Movement/release/1026558
― kwhitehead, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Yeah that and Swiss Movement are both cool (their version of "Compared to What" is fucking great). As is Silver Cycles! Title track is almost Terry Riley-esque delay experiment...
BTW glad you liked that track, mark!
― ^^^ NOT METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 16 April 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
@hawkwindz : that track totally put me back into the groove this week. after weeks of misery and black mood music i needed a kick. ta muchly.hence the newfound love for byrd etc
― mark e, Thursday, 16 April 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
Gorgeous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N1mPWwxgRI
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 10 December 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
literally every time this thread comes up i gohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi6hdATm_Q
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 11 December 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
lol
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 December 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
if you ever wondered what karen dalton would sound like guesting on an eddie harris track, well ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoqcn5crgQ
― budo jeru, Sunday, 4 September 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link