I lived across the alley from the late great Eddie Harris and had the great treat of hearing him practice on his porch or backyard on summer sunday afternoons while we kids road around on our banana bikes. Didn't have a clue of who he was - just the noisy neighbor. But my parents knew and as I got older schooled me. miss those days.
I had the honor of playing with Eddie a couple of times! He was a gentleman, and of course a genius. We traded choruses on "The Song Is You". He had me playing my best ever! I think this was just a few weeks before he passed. RIP Eddie! Thanks for all the intervals!
One of the most blessed nights of my life was sharing drinks with Eddie at the Jazz Safari next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach while he took his break. Saw him next at Top O The Cove , La Jolla next . The Man .... WHEW ! Gods Love Him ! ;>)
Thanks. Talked to my brother the other day - he's 6 yrs older than me. He told me that he used to hang out with his best friend at Harris' house when he was a teen and discovering jazz rather than just his adoration of all things Motown.
I love Eddies musik! Saw him live at Jimmy Smith's Supper Club (California). I had a great time watching him perform and talking to him. I helped him move his gear in and out. The club shut down shortly afterwards. The end of an era!
Thinking about all the maddness in the world ,the sound of Eddie Harris simply blows all the pain away. I starting to see the magic in reality. Blow Eddie Blow !Blow all the bullshit away, like rain clouds being blowed away on a stormy day, blow until the souls of all man kind clean up their downtrodden Minds-blow us a healin
Eddie Harris is also a blood relative of my siblings and I... He's our 3rd cousin! - He passed away in 1995. My maternal Grandmother, Ms. Nellie Harris passed away in GA in 1997! - She raised me from a baby in San Francisco, CA. - My oldest son plays Jazz Tenor, and I also play Tenor, Alto, Soprano, Flute, Keys, Drums and I'm also a 5-Octave Vocalist as well! - My Domain is at: BlkIndiansMusic dot org
Ray and Reggie Codrington introduced me to Eddie’s genius musical stylings in 1982 when I was a student of the tenor saxophone. Ray played with Eddie on Freedom Jazz Dance, the hit, and both gentlemen were very fond of him personally and professionally. He was a unique and irreplaceable genius.
This is beautiful. For around two years now I’ve had Harris’s album, “The Electrifying Eddie Harris” and while all the cuts on it are excellent, this one is probably my personal favorite. It is so upbeat and uplifting - & yeah, Electrifying! But this version is even better! In fact, It is Fantastic! :) Sorry to hear about his passing. :(. RIP!!
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Eddie at Jimmy Smith's Supper Club in North Hollywood, California. I used to go there to sit in on the Jam Session on Monday nights. He came in one monday night and set up his sax and amp. All I can say is WOW! What a night! At closing time, I helped him load his gear into his car and we talked for a while before he left. It was an evening to remember!
Mr. Harris and my father served together in the Korean war. They stayed buddies over the decades. We got to meet him in his later years when he'd travel to our area in Northern California.
MUSICAL SOUNDS are the language of the world and the universe. Only when these musical sounds are analyzed, categorized, overly dramatized, and sometimes chastised is when man fails to realize that a musical sound is BEAUTY OF LIFE ITSELF. Eddie Harris
I skipper out on my date for the Queen that night . Told her the bridge can wait but I have to say hello from my HERO from down in Redondo . Red Onion on the pier ........"Listen Here" COLD DUCK TIME BABY !!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAA EDDDIE !
I don't care about the video!! I was introduced to "Listen Here" in the late '60s...my next introduction was to "Compared To What". I was hooked but, sadly have to say that it's been 20+ years since I've thought of Eddie and today, my husband was on You Tube where he usually listens to music..from somewhere came my voice saying play "Compared To What" and that was it. I will try to overcome the 'country' music where I live & bring out the classic jazz, etc., etc.
He was a hero and pioneer of one of the earliest amplified saxophones, the Varitone he is playing here. He is doing something genuinely new and different for the time. He is not even listed in most music/jazz reference texts even though his contemporaries are. I would have liked to hear he was also a generous geezer and all round great bloke but knowing he probably wasn't still doesn't diminish his contribution. Maybe he had a reason for having a chip on his shoulder......
before cool jazz, jazz used to be cool,one sunday afternoon I was taking my daughter to LAX and stopped at dinahs chicken to buy her some french fries! eddie was waiting for an order of fried chicken and I got to tell him how much i dug his music and his invention,he was really cool and let me introduce my daughter to him,listen here was top of the charts for months for good reason
what a great clip, thx for posting! at 4:40 - can't help thinking how Hendrix was also time traveling onstage around this time. (69) plugged in and on a voyage, you let Eddie take you with him or u just sit and wait till he gets back :) It's fkn beautiful to watch true artists just do their thing on stage.
Cool story. Eddie Harris was certainly respected in my household when I was growing up. Think my dad had a 12 record jazz collection, with 5 or 6 of them being Eddie's stuff on Veejay and Atlantic, etc. Eddie was just so damn exciting when he played. There used to be a beautiful black and white film on You Tube of Eddie and Les doing Compared to What at Montreaux (sounded like the exact version that made it on to the Swiss Movement LP). Alas, seems like it is no longer here on You Tube.
Sonny Stitt used a Varitone too, it wasn't a sax in itself but an attachment. Eddie is also using a tape echo to make the 'multi-eddie' effect, I use two pedals with my sax, a Boss digital octave divider and a Digitech Whammy pedal usually set in the major/minor 3rd position. With those two going into seperate channels of the p.a. I can get three piece horn section sounds. Still can't play like Eddie though!
my old man produced "compared to what" and many Les McCann albums. He also produced some Eddie Harris recordings. I knew Eddie from about the age of 6 until his death when I was about 25. Eddie had his issues, but he was a great guy he just was angry because he wanted more respect. I think he deserved it but you have to give respect to get it and Eddie could be a little nasty sometimes. Either way.he was as heavy a musician as Ive ever been around. It doesnt get much heavier. great teacher too!
It wasn't until the 21st century that I realized that I am the 3rd blood cousin to Mr. eddie Harris via my grandmother, (The Late) Mrs. Nellie Harris (Johnson)
Apollo 11 landed on July 20th 1969... So technically 1 month after this show. (Wiki: The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.)
Just Plug Me In Just Like I Was Eddie Harris You're Eating Crazy Cheese Like You'd Think I'm From Paris You Know I Get Fly You Think I Get High You Know That I'm Gone And I'm A Tell You All Why So Tell Me Who Are You Dissing Maybe I'm Missing The Reason That You're Smiling or Wilding So Listen In My Head I Just Want To Take 'em Down Imagination Set Loose And I'm Gonna Shake 'em Down Let It Flow Like A Mud Slide When I Get On I Like To Ride And Glide
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That’s my uncle Melvin “Funky Skull” Jackson on bass. He’s in his 80s now
Wish him the best and convey my love from Sardegna-Italy, please.
I lived across the alley from the late great Eddie Harris and had the great treat of hearing him practice on his porch or backyard on summer sunday afternoons while we kids road around on our banana bikes. Didn't have a clue of who he was - just the noisy neighbor. But my parents knew and as I got older schooled me. miss those days.
Straight up dawg? You not trippin' is you? What a memory. Wish Willie be there too. He in war at the time
Lucky you !
amazing. got any other stories of Eddie?
What’s your name?
@@EddieHarrisJazz my name is Marsha, my bros Ron and Ken Swope. Loved hearing my own jazz concert on Sunday afternoons.
I had the honor of playing with Eddie a couple of times! He was a gentleman, and of course a genius. We traded choruses on "The Song Is You". He had me playing my best ever! I think this was just a few weeks before he passed. RIP Eddie! Thanks for all the intervals!
One of the most blessed nights of my life was sharing drinks with Eddie at the Jazz Safari next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach while he took his break. Saw him next at Top O The Cove , La Jolla next . The Man .... WHEW ! Gods Love Him ! ;>)
Eddie is the FUNK. I've had this tune in my collection since '91. I never get tired of listening to it. Great to see him in action.
My dad introduced me to this music as a kid. Thanks Dad!! This was jazz!! Love Eddie Harris!! Man is so fuckin cool as he jams!!!!!
WOW!! Perfect! Hypnoctic, psychedelic... GROOVE!! A big gift from gods!!
Thanks. Talked to my brother the other day - he's 6 yrs older than me. He told me that he used to hang out with his best friend at Harris' house when he was a teen and discovering jazz rather than just his adoration of all things Motown.
Enjoyed an intimate performance of Eddie with Les McCann in Washington DC way back ago. Superb!
Thanks again and again 💖♪ ♫ 🎸🎷 🎻🎹🎺🌺
Top notch jazz!!!!!!!!!!!
When 3:20 rolls around, Holy Shit!!! It goes from being absolutely stunningly to something superhumanly impossible and dumfounding and awe inspiring.
salsburysteakjr he created the electric sax
I traveled many times with Eddie...a real friend...miss ya, Eddie.
I love Eddies musik! Saw him live at Jimmy Smith's Supper Club (California). I had a great time watching him perform and talking to him. I helped him move his gear in and out. The club shut down shortly afterwards. The end of an era!
Thanks Eddie Harris for this great Opus from and with you and friends musicians (Montreux June 1969).
💟🎼🎹🎹🥁🎸🎵
My parents loved jazz so much and these guys were some of their favorites. It must've been nice to be that close to these guys...
Eddie playing that sax. Real funky and soulful.
The "Electrifing Eddie Harris" LP is wonderful.
It has "listen here" on it.
Infectious groove man!
Man! What a swingin" tune! RIP, Eddie...
Thinking about all the maddness in the world ,the sound of Eddie Harris simply blows all the pain away. I starting to see the magic in reality. Blow Eddie Blow !Blow all the bullshit away, like rain clouds being blowed away on a stormy day, blow
until the souls of all man kind clean up their downtrodden Minds-blow us a healin
Eddie Harris is also a blood relative of my siblings and I... He's our 3rd cousin! - He passed away in 1995. My maternal Grandmother, Ms. Nellie Harris passed away in GA in 1997! - She raised me from a baby in San Francisco, CA. - My oldest son plays Jazz Tenor, and I also play Tenor, Alto, Soprano, Flute, Keys, Drums and I'm also a 5-Octave Vocalist as well! - My Domain is at: BlkIndiansMusic dot org
God bless you, Eddie was wonderful. His music will live forever.
Ray and Reggie Codrington introduced me to Eddie’s genius musical stylings in 1982 when I was a student of the tenor saxophone. Ray played with Eddie on Freedom Jazz Dance, the hit, and both gentlemen were very fond of him personally and professionally. He was a unique and irreplaceable genius.
Wow! I LOVE this!! Wonderful musicians! Sublime performance!
RIP ❤Mr. Jodie Christian.❤
❤Much Love & Respect.❤
G.
RIP Jodie Christian
Eddie leur en a mis plein les oreilles là! Je l'ai toujours aimé car il était un des rares jazzman à utiliser les technologies.
Soul Jazz at it's finest and imo, most pure form.
This is beautiful. For around two years now I’ve had Harris’s album, “The Electrifying Eddie Harris” and while all the cuts on it are excellent, this one is probably my personal favorite. It is so upbeat and uplifting - & yeah, Electrifying!
But this version is even better! In fact, It is Fantastic! :)
Sorry to hear about his passing. :(. RIP!!
I actually had the pleasure of meeting Eddie at Jimmy Smith's Supper Club in North Hollywood, California. I used to go there to sit in on the Jam Session on Monday nights. He came in one monday night and set up his sax and amp. All I can say is WOW! What a night! At closing time, I helped him load his gear into his car and we talked for a while before he left. It was an evening to remember!
Eddie was a unique musician, tremendous groove, funny guy too.
Thanks "Anichka Banichka" for this Live in Montreux🌺
💖Eddie Harris and others magic men ♪ ♫ 🎸🎷 🎻🎹🎺🌺🎧🎼kind of a magnifique Concert !🎩🎩🎩
Always have enjoyed this tune from the Swiss Movement album with Les Mccann. Love the vid and the vibe.
Eddie Harris was the most humble and down to earth star I have ever met. 1970 Jazz Festival Cincinnati
Real truth! Peace to you!
This is wonderful.
Mr. Harris and my father served together in the Korean war. They stayed buddies over the decades. We got to meet him in his later years when he'd travel to our area in Northern California.
I'm listening Eddie....and I can dig it...
My band played a couple of Eddie Harris songs, 1 was Cold duck time!
Thanks, all my mates love Eddie, and try and keep that vibe in our heads, thanks
I would have love to know this guy. I have always been a fan.
Had to look at Papa Chocolate and think of my dad today. I am fortunate to have a family-oriented may like they were.
Chi-Town's Mr. Jodie Christian
One off my ole time favorites. Love this music
MUSICAL SOUNDS are the language of the world and the universe.
Only when these musical sounds are analyzed, categorized, overly dramatized, and sometimes chastised is when man fails to realize that a musical sound is
BEAUTY OF LIFE ITSELF.
Eddie Harris
Makes me miss my dad. Eddie Harris was one of his favorites.
I skipper out on my date for the Queen that night . Told her the bridge can wait but I have to say hello from my HERO from down in Redondo . Red Onion on the pier ........"Listen Here" COLD DUCK TIME BABY !!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAA EDDDIE !
I don't care about the video!! I was introduced to "Listen Here" in the late '60s...my next introduction was to "Compared To What". I was hooked but, sadly have to say that it's been 20+ years since I've thought of Eddie and today, my husband was on You Tube where he usually listens to music..from somewhere came my voice saying play "Compared To What" and that was it. I will try to overcome the 'country' music where I live & bring out the classic jazz, etc., etc.
this will never get old and will stay in your mind
timeless dawg, simply timeless
lovely, nice bit of freedom jazz dance at the end as well....bonus !!
Try to sit perfectly still & listen to this cool tune...
Impossible.
He was a hero and pioneer of one of the earliest amplified saxophones, the Varitone he is playing here. He is doing something genuinely new and different for the time. He is not even listed in most music/jazz reference texts even though his contemporaries are. I would have liked to hear he was also a generous geezer and all round great bloke but knowing he probably wasn't still doesn't diminish his contribution. Maybe he had a reason for having a chip on his shoulder......
Electrifying, groovy and funky. A jazzy boogie woogie!!!
Thank you for the upload.
main man. saw him live in london what a treat R.I.P
This deserves more views. Omg...
before cool jazz, jazz used to be cool,one sunday afternoon I was taking my daughter to LAX and stopped at dinahs chicken to buy her some french fries! eddie was waiting for an order of fried chicken and I got to tell him how much i dug his music and his invention,he was really cool and let me introduce my daughter to him,listen here was top of the charts for months for good reason
He liked Dinah’s! Thank you for this story!
this music, this moment changed my life!!!!!!
Sincerely
Peter Tschirky
autor of the first Eddie Harris book "Eddie Harris sings the Blues"
That is awesome. What a way to grow up.
Just simply fantastic
what a great clip, thx for posting! at 4:40 - can't help thinking how Hendrix was also time traveling onstage around this time. (69) plugged in and on a voyage, you let Eddie take you with him or u just sit and wait till he gets back :) It's fkn beautiful to watch true artists just do their thing on stage.
Yes, and it's right here on TH-cam. "Listen Here" LP, red in color. 9 minutes, 7 seconds of Eddie FUNK.
Eddie Harris was genius!
Stunning!
James Matthews told me about him last night after a set with him. Guess he was right. Mind blown.
great piece!
thanks for the post.
Cool story. Eddie Harris was certainly respected in my household when I was growing up. Think my dad had a 12 record jazz collection, with 5 or 6 of them being Eddie's stuff on Veejay and Atlantic, etc. Eddie was just so damn exciting when he played. There used to be a beautiful black and white film on You Tube of Eddie and Les doing Compared to What at Montreaux (sounded like the exact version that made it on to the Swiss Movement LP). Alas, seems like it is no longer here on You Tube.
INCREDIBLE!!!!
Eddie's granddaugther Nia Harris Burnley is an aspiring pianist. Check her out on TH-cam. She is up and coming.....
i like a lot great performance
i whole-heartedly agree with you...so DESERVING OF PRAISE...
THANK YOU
I remember visiting my Uncle in Queens, New York and We would argue who was better Eddie Harris or Stanley Turrentine.
You Got It! I was thinking the same thing as I listened to this Tonight! Both Are First Among Equals For Tenor Sax!!!!!!! Peace...
oh what a great sound,
i miss Eddie "Who" !
listing to this man, he is. O SO SMOOTH..
Happy Birthday Eddie Harris! He would've been 73 today!
Introduced to this music by my brother who had it all...
True music right here.
The most soulful cat of them all!
um
legendary
he was so deep in that groove
marianna depth
F'N BRILLIANT !!!!!!!
big dues paid to get to that level of talent, big dues
One of the greatest ever.
Sonny Stitt used a Varitone too, it wasn't a sax in itself but an attachment. Eddie is also using a tape echo to make the 'multi-eddie' effect, I use two pedals with my sax, a Boss digital octave divider and a Digitech Whammy pedal usually set in the major/minor 3rd position. With those two going into seperate channels of the p.a. I can get three piece horn section sounds. Still can't play like Eddie though!
yeah wtf alot of them do haha this is great though thanks for posting
Whomever the 47 folks who gave this a thumbs down obviously don't know jack shit about jazz music.
C7 and F7 man, who knew such poetry could come from two simple chords!
my old man produced "compared to what" and many Les McCann albums. He also produced some Eddie Harris recordings. I knew Eddie from about the age of 6 until his death when I was about 25. Eddie had his issues, but he was a great guy he just was angry because he wanted more respect. I think he deserved it but you have to give respect to get it and Eddie could be a little nasty sometimes. Either way.he was as heavy a musician as Ive ever been around. It doesnt get much heavier. great teacher too!
It wasn't until the 21st century that I realized that I am the 3rd blood cousin to Mr. eddie Harris via my grandmother, (The Late) Mrs. Nellie Harris (Johnson)
Lovely!
Happy Birthday!!!!! Eddie Whooo?
GREAT & Jazzzzadelic !
basically. It's called a "Varitone" sax. It has a special pickup in the neck. They're almost impossible to get a hold of nowadays. :/
..yes...
This concert might be where Montreux started to become a Jazz Mecca.
Jazzistan I hear you 👂✊
Hypnotic!!!
This was the same day as the first Moon landing.
Apollo 11 landed on July 20th 1969... So technically 1 month after this show. (Wiki: The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.)
Jodie Christian is so next level on this...
He is using the Maestro Woodwind Sound System in this recording. I have 2 of them myself (One I want to sell.)
Ah, it does not get much cooler than that, now does it?
5:38 Getting Down !!
Great Vid !!
Don't think they could have found a worse audience - heads in their hands... its criminal.
Nothing but ❤️
Just Plug Me In Just Like I Was Eddie Harris
You're Eating Crazy Cheese Like You'd Think I'm From Paris
You Know I Get Fly You Think I Get High
You Know That I'm Gone And I'm A Tell You All Why
So Tell Me Who Are You Dissing Maybe I'm Missing
The Reason That You're Smiling or Wilding
So Listen In My Head I Just Want To Take 'em Down
Imagination Set Loose And I'm Gonna Shake 'em Down
Let It Flow Like A Mud Slide
When I Get On I Like To Ride And Glide
Les McCann = great