How cool is Eddie Harris?

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?

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...

Damn. Sorry Eddie.

plug me in is a such a winner!! best album I've bought in months

(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

"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...)

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!)

on the want list

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

Eddie who?

that recording is amazing...so minimal, and the effects are so central to the playing (not at all tacked on)

I know right? it's such a great marriage of riffs and effects, really hypnotic, beautifully constructed

getting blazed with this record and a pair of headphones = FYM ASMD, no better way to spend a Friday night.

Oh by "this record" I meant Live At Newport.. Like I said, blazed.

yeah, Live at Newport. So hard to track down for some reason. Was it ever reissued?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFHkVXt47fI

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

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I mean, goddamn what a song. Almost sounds like something Robert Wyatt could've been involved with.

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.

Silver Cycles is worth having just for the title track

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)

This record is a stunner too.

http://www.discogs.com/Eddie-Harris-Les-McCann-Second-Movement/release/1026558

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!

@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

Gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N1mPWwxgRI

literally every time this thread comes up i go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoi6hdATm_Q

lol

if you ever wondered what karen dalton would sound like guesting on an eddie harris track, well ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoqcn5crgQ