Eddie Harris
USA
Born: 20 October 1934
Died: 05 November 1996
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Fusion, Soul Jazz/Groove, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Bop, Mainstream Jazz, New Orleans/Classic Jazz
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Long underrated in the pantheon of jazz greats, Eddie Harris was an eclectic and imaginative saxophonist whose career was marked by a hearty appetite for experimentation. For quite some time, he was far more popular with audiences than with critics, many of whom denigrated him for his more commercially successful ventures. Harris' tastes ranged across the spectrum of black music, not all of which was deemed acceptable by jazz purists. He had the chops to handle technically demanding bop, and the restraint to play in the cool-toned West Coast st...
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