When I was stationed in Okinawa in the late 60's, I would often get depressed by the constant racism. A friend of mine from Detroit, who loved jazz, introduced me to Eddie Harris & the song Listen Here. After that, whenever I started feeling depressed, I would play this song. I COULD NOT be depressed listening to this song. It became my favorite song of all time. I also fell in love with A Theme in Search of a Movie. RIP great one, you got me through it.
I am aware it was a tough time for many of our service members. I heard it was a lot of music that got our service members through the thick of times. I still play Eddie on the turn table; it never gets old. Proud of you for your service. Keep your head up and keep listening to the music.
My dad played this song for me when I was 12 in 1982 as inspiration to pick up the sax. I tried to play along with it 100’s of times with my student model alto sax. This song was the catalyst for many years of enjoyment in my life. Then in 1995 I was walking in a random town and saw his name on a club playbill for that night. I was too busy / shy / embarrassed to try to meet him. The next year he was gone from this world. Learn from my mistake! R.I.P. the great Eddie Harris!
Cool. Same here my dad used 2 jam this song when l was a kid. I think back in the late sixties. When it 1st came out. I liked it then & l like it now. My dad was in 2 jazz & that influenced me 2 appreciate jazz music as well. I think of him when l listen 2 this song
This is the most soulful, passionate, foot-stomping music I've ever heard in years-- had the album 40 years ago and wore it out; found these guys again today giving me a new lease on life. I thank all the angels and saints for this jazz genius!
Had this album when it first came out. I was back from Vietnam the summer of 68 and played it over and over. Such a great record with lots of groove. Then saw him on west coast the following year with my cousin. Great artist. At the age of 7 1/2 decades You Tube lets me listen to all the albums I had during that great period of jazz---1962 to 1980.
Met him in the L.A. train station in 1987. I was 23 and in the Marines. He asked me if I was heading to San Diego and could I watch his bag for a few minutes. The train got called he got his bag. We got on the same train and I attempted to get off at the stop for Camp Pendleton but did not get off in time and got off at the next stop with him. I did not know who he was and we started to talk while I waited for the next train north and him for his ride. I found out that he was Eddie Harris and told him that I had his album with me. He was surprised that I had the record among my 2 Live Crew and Eric B. and Rakim etc records. He signed the album and invited me to come and see him play. I could not as I had to be in Hawaii the next day. Wish I had went. R.I.P. Eddie keep playing.
As my three children were growing up in the 80s & 90s (two boys, one girl, all five years apart), 60s jazz is all I played in the house. Eddie, Les, J Coletrain, Ray Brown, Roy Haynes, Brubech, Ramsey, Red Garland, Gene Ammons, Crarmen McRae, etc etc... Growing up they always strayed away, but always came back to jazz. Now they are fine adults and from time to time they call me in tears saying how they heard a jazz tune and they think of all the time times they had growing up at home with all that beautiful jazz music. They often tell me they've become jazz snobs.. I also love Jimmy Hendrix, & Bach, but my heart is with jazz.
Funk with a purpose, jam with a groove. Cuts like this paved the way for the dynamic crossover into the realm of smooth jazz. Les McCann's collaboration with Eddie Harris will go down as one of the most trendsetting meeting of musical minds ever recorded. The rest, shall we say is history. Actually, I had forgotten just how magnificent this piece was given it is from 1967. Just goes to show you the timeless nature of good music.👑🎸🎵
One Friday evening on my way from work I heard this cut on KSOL radio station and I stopped at West Sounds Records store on University Avenue in E.P.A., Ca and bought the album. Eddie Harris was a gifted musician who may be gone from our present sight, but he will never be forgotten. His music will forever be enshrined in our hearts.
Used to hang out at Shelley's ManneHole in Hollywood in the 60's. heard many of the jazz greats when they would come into town, usually for a gig at Shelley's or to see who else was in town and very often , sit in and jam. It was a great time for jazz. The Crescendo in Hollywood was a great jazz spot also and there, you could catch Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, too!!
Thirty years ago I bought an Eddie Harris album with this track on it. At that time (I was 18) I had no idea what I was buying. Boy, did that purchase enrich my life on this planet. Almost every Jazz musician (which I am not) I meet in The Netherlands (where I live) still speaks very highly of Eddie Harris. The Man Is A Genius. Thank you @truemantiger for sharing this!
I heard this cut on radio station KBCA 105.1 on my venture to UCLA College campus, I will always remember the awakening of this song, some people pushed it aside, however I find this song a fulfillment.
Hey ! Long live KBCA . And all the jocks there , Chuck Niles, Jim Gosa, Dennis Smith, Gerald Wilson, Leonard Feather, Kogi Seyama, Jai Rich, Rick Holmes . And many others .
My first time hearing this tune was a cover by Albert Collins, which was the kick-off tune for this Live In Japan album in 1984. Now I know where it originated from.
Throughout high school I was in a band class called jazz studies, we learnt about the greats, as well as the theory behind jazz, and also learned & performed all sorts of great blues & jazz charts, and even did some random stuff like the time we turned the mario theme song into a jazz song... but anyways, I am a multi instrumentalist, mostly guitar & piano, and we did this song for one of our concerts, and I was on aux percussion such as guiro, and even the spoons... music is truely the greatest gift to give
I first heard this music through my late uncle Frank Gatlin who was a jazz musician and played saxophone at clubs in NYC. It was so amazing to really listen to it as a teenager.
Had a pleasure to listen to this song live in Belgrade, some 35 years ago. He was a guest player with some Serbian jazz musicians (Milivoje Mica Markovic and others) in Kolarcev Univerzitet hall in Belgrade. Memorable concert. He (Eddie) was a master class player.
There is always that special selection, the first I heard this Eddie Harris sound I was attached to it. I was about 16 years, I am now 73 years. I still love it. Good show Mr. Harris even after death !!!
I never dreamed I would be a fan of jazz music. But since my since my daughter has been in band and and I've been exposed to the high school jazz band, I absolutely love it! Our high school jazz band performed this song last night wearing their tuxedos and long black dresses and it was the classiest thing ever. It's so fun when they're performing and dancing because they can't stop from moving. In my heart I was down there dancing on the floor right by them lol
I was in jazz studies all throughout high school, we did all sorts of great blues & jazz charts... as a rock & outlaw country musician, I never thought Id enjoy jazz, but I was wrong! We performed charts by Eddie Harris including this one, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Red Garland, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a lot more... God I miss that class
@liam_olson as a teenager I listened to hard rock/ hairball rock then I married a farmer and moved to the country where country music dominates that stations so I've learned to like a lot of that too. But the jazz music is something completely different and gets right into your bones! I wish I would've played an instrument!
I LOVE THIS JAZZ , R I P EDDIE HARRIS GOD CALL YOU HOME 1996, THE SAME YEAR AS MY DAD, YOU ARE GONE BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, AND MAY MY DAD RIP, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING, THIS BRINGS BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES.
rollerchickable Rest In Paradise Eddie. My Father Passed In 1997 He Played Your Albums Faithfully. Especially You And Les McCann "Second Movement" Shorty Rides Again A True Classic
I was in jazz studies all throughout high school, we did all sorts of great blues & jazz charts... as a rock & outlaw country musician, I never thought Id enjoy jazz, but I was wrong! We performed charts by Eddie Harris including this one, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Red Garland, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a lot more... God I miss that class
I have four dogs who, as dogs do, tend to lay around a lot. But not when this comes on. They are up and wagging. Not even dogs can sit still to this. I kid you not.
When I first this song I was in awe of how great a sax player Eddie Harris was!I was a young kid,listenin to all the new rock&roll comin out in the mid 60s,but to me,it doesnt matter what style of music it is,if its good,I want to listen to it!This music crosses all boundaries&makes u happy,no matter who r!Thank u,Mr.Harris!
When this song came out I was in high school and it would be playing in the school cafeteria. What a great lunch hour it was . This brings back so many wonderful memories
I was in the army, stationed in Germany then this came out. Best time of my life. I met some of the most fascinating brothers ever ( black and white ) cats whose like I would never met again. Harris music was prolific but I will always remember him for this track and his sensational "Plug Me In" album and all those cool cats I met in the army back in 67, 68 and 69.
Robert Jackson/Mizpahboy, seems like a pattern since I graduated from Baumholder HS 1964, and ended back in Germany in the military station at "Paton Barracks" Heidelberg Germany 1967/69 ! Spent a lot of time with cats from NY and playing/ listening to jazz and taping it, and Eddie Harris was a favorite, esp "compare to what".
I was stationed in baumholder in 1967 transfer to Kaiserslautern playedfor the K-Town Defenders basketball team. Eddie Harris was the man. We played in Heidelberg too.
THIS IS FROM MY YOUTH MY AUNT RITA PLAYED THIS SHE WAS THE JAZZ PERSON SHE DIDNT LISTEN TO BUT JAZZ REMIND ME OF MY YOUTH I LOVE YOU AUNT RITA AND AUNT LEOLA FOR MAKING MY LIFE HAPPIER THANK YOU
Love this. Takes me back to my teen years in Jersey. I wasn't hip to Eddie Harris. I would be over my girlfriend's house and her dad had all these Eddie Harris albums. That's how I became aware of Eddie Harris. Seems like when I was walking pass a bar full of Old Heads this cut would be blasting from the jukebox. Summer of 68
I remember er my late uncle George R.I.P. playing this Alblum and song when I was about 12 yr s old thus being one of the songs that introduced me to the world of Jazz
Same age I remember making my little pocket change shining shoe's in the bar's in North Philly and this was on the juke boxes and all the players and O.G 's back then made sure that their shoes had a nice shine...
My aunt Rita was a jazz fan that's all she listen to she brought my life so much joy when she was help raising me she play this all the time and I will also be forever grateful for that I listen to jazz band and I love it
He made music history playing this sax the reason it was the first time anybody had a electronic sax. He would play at the Hollywood INN club on 6800 block on Halsted in Chicago IL. As I went to see him the jam a hot track for the times. Also another group played there many times Billy Larkin and The Delegates--Dunmore Music of Monee IL.
Hollywood Inn? I thought it was the Sandpiper? God! That's been ages ago. I don't know how I remembered Sandpiper! We were smothered in wonderful music back then with Herb Kent doing RnB and My Boy Sid McCoy doing jazz!
@@ChasGreenALRS I was in basic at Ft. Knox in 65' and couldn't go to sleep one night. I borrowed a radio and started playing with the dial and all of a sudden I picked up WCFL and Sid McCoy. I didn't get much sleep that nigh or any other night I was able to borrow the radio
And then the 70's came along and muddied the water. If not for these recordings of pure, clear & crisp instruments, my ears would die of thirst. I am grateful.
I am 50 years old, by mistake I listened to Blue Note Records on Spotify, I never turned back, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard Stanley Turrentine n Eddie Harris got me hooked on Jazz from that Era, Blue Note Records gave the world beautiful music.
Moved to So. California in the summer of 69,from the Deep Hateful South, the played a pick up game of basketball and afterwards heard this music and wow!! Never looked back- Eddie Harris!!
My Dad introduced to this brilliant saxophone player when I was ten and I never forgot this classic bebop tune. I also like the song , Theme in search of a movie. Eddie also did the music for the 1964 movie, Exodus. Awesome and genius scholar musician. 🎷🎼🎹🎼🎵
Entity-Eight- he's OK. I can think if a least 20 others off the cuff that I prefer.much of his riffs sound redundant.and the electric sax deal was dead end street.but he was just OK.
Entity-Eight- I looked up on ranker.com and Eddie ranked 53 on th list.there are many epic players dead and living .many to choose from.but I put on my les Macan and Eddie Harris cd when I want to catch the attention of my non jazz loving friends.still have a vinyl of Swiss movement and Harris's swiss moment album.
Who do you know plays an electric sax on the rankers list.com ? I understand jazz with such instrument is incomprehensible to a few, but others are not insane, though the question may arise.
LOVE ME SOME EDDIE HARRIS!!! HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS KIND OF JAZZ SINCE I WAS 5YEARS OF AGE PLUS!!! THATS WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC!!! 49 YEARS AND GOUNTING!!!
Got here by way of an obscure reference in a Beastie Boys track from the 90s...glad I decided to search. Eddie Harris had some serious skills. What a great sound.
My Uncle Walter put me onto this music in the early 60's. He is gone on home now but his legacy in my heart is the music he shared in that beautiful Brooklyn brownstone on Monroe Street. Thanks for your love of great music Uncle Walter. My heart will always know you.
This reminds me so much of the call and response I hear in African American churches during Tuesday night prayer meetings and Saturday or Sunday afternoon choirs! One can almost create a sermon based on this!
Great track...fond memories. Home mix cassettes..from vinyl albums....driving on uncrowded hiways (not freeways)...sailing smoothly past small towns in big heavy US built autos..rockin & Rollin along....after 'Eddie Harris's track...came 'Memphis Underground' by Herbie Mann...then 'Mercy,Mercy,Mercy..from Cannonball Adderly... Those guys put out good music..still holds up in 2017
I am forever grateful to have have met and to be a fan. I went to meet a friend at a a club called Bird Land West in Long Beach CA in the late 80's. Went to the bar to have a drink and wait on my friend, little did I know sitting at the bar was Al Williams owner of the club and Les MaCan and Eddie Harris. I wish I could tell you the rest of the story. Thank you Al
Good music, like good literature...speaks honestly to the human experience. That's why this will never get old, Eddie had something real to say. Damn this swings...HARD.
I'm 80 and still in the groove.
When I was stationed in Okinawa in the late 60's, I would often get depressed by the constant racism. A friend of mine from Detroit, who loved jazz, introduced me to Eddie Harris & the song Listen Here. After that, whenever I started feeling depressed, I would play this song. I COULD NOT be depressed listening to this song. It became my favorite song of all time. I also fell in love with A Theme in Search of a Movie. RIP great one, you got me through it.
Love your comments ❤
I am aware it was a tough time for many of our service members. I heard it was a lot of music that got our service members through the thick of times. I still play Eddie on the turn table; it never gets old. Proud of you for your service. Keep your head up and keep listening to the music.
I migrated to usa 1966 and bought this album 1968 it's a wicked album my favorite
My dad played this when I was a kid now I'm 65 n bought me a sax , love this song
So smooth. Brings back a lot of memories.
Eddie Harris is able to make his horn sound like its having a casual conversation.
This is phenomenal.
My dad played this song for me when I was 12 in 1982 as inspiration to pick up the sax. I tried to play along with it 100’s of times with my student model alto sax. This song was the catalyst for many years of enjoyment in my life.
Then in 1995 I was walking in a random town and saw his name on a club playbill for that night. I was too busy / shy / embarrassed to try to meet him. The next year he was gone from this world. Learn from my mistake!
R.I.P. the great Eddie Harris!
Cool. Same here my dad used 2 jam this song when l was a kid. I think back in the late sixties. When it 1st came out. I liked it then & l like it now. My dad was in 2 jazz & that influenced me 2 appreciate jazz music as well. I think of him when l listen 2 this song
Yea l looked up the year. It came out in 1967. I was like 4 or 5 yrs old but l remembered the song, that's how l looked it up
This is the most soulful, passionate, foot-stomping music I've ever heard in years-- had the album 40 years ago and wore it out; found these guys again today giving me a new lease on life. I thank all the angels and saints for this jazz genius!
Had this album when it first came out. I was back from Vietnam the summer of 68 and played it over and over. Such a great record with lots of groove. Then saw him on west coast the following year with my cousin.
Great artist. At the age of 7 1/2 decades You Tube lets me listen to all the albums I had during that great period of jazz---1962 to 1980.
Met him in the L.A. train station in 1987. I was 23 and in the Marines. He asked me if I was heading to San Diego and could I watch his bag for a few minutes. The train got called he got his bag. We got on the same train and I attempted to get off at the stop for Camp Pendleton but did not get off in time and got off at the next stop with him. I did not know who he was and we started to talk while I waited for the next train north and him for his ride. I found out that he was Eddie Harris and told him that I had his album with me. He was surprised that I had the record among my 2 Live Crew and Eric B. and Rakim etc records. He signed the album and invited me to come and see him play. I could not as I had to be in Hawaii the next day. Wish I had went. R.I.P. Eddie keep playing.
Ray Taylor holy shit that’s amazing !!!!
Hey Ray,i was in the Marines from 1966/1970 did the Vietnam trip two times,glad we are still here listening to OUR music,God bless U MY BROTHER.
Lovely story
WOW,that is sooo COOL Ray
Wow, Mr. Taylor!! Thank you for sharing this :)
This will always remain an all time classic! Brilliantly composed, smooth, soulful jazz
I’ve love this piece since I was a young teen. I’m now 70 and still love Eddie Harris. Too cool!
Exactly the same here. First heard Compared to What in the 70's and was hooked.Still listening at 72 yrs,
As my three children were growing up in the 80s & 90s (two boys, one girl, all five years apart), 60s jazz is all I played in the house. Eddie, Les, J Coletrain, Ray Brown, Roy Haynes, Brubech, Ramsey, Red Garland, Gene Ammons, Crarmen McRae, etc etc... Growing up they always strayed away, but always came back to jazz. Now they are fine adults and from time to time they call me in tears saying how they heard a jazz tune and they think of all the time times they had growing up at home with all that beautiful jazz music. They often tell me they've become jazz snobs.. I also love Jimmy Hendrix, & Bach, but my heart is with jazz.
Oh that report bless' me .
Q
One of my favorites from when I started listening to jazz continuously back in the 70’s, and still is
Funk with a purpose, jam with a groove. Cuts like this paved the way for the dynamic crossover into the realm of smooth jazz. Les McCann's collaboration with Eddie Harris will go down as one of the most trendsetting meeting of musical minds ever recorded. The rest, shall we say is history. Actually, I had forgotten just how magnificent this piece was given it is from 1967. Just goes to show you the timeless nature of good music.👑🎸🎵
Not fair to blame Eddie for "Smooth" Jazz!
@@tomtheeagle1 Yeah he has nothing to do with that.
A lot of people say dog is man's best friend, my best friend has been music my whole life.
my sentiments exactly, music got through a lot
I listen this this over and over - love it right now in 2023!
One Friday evening on my way from work I heard this cut on KSOL radio station and I stopped at West Sounds Records store on University Avenue in E.P.A., Ca and bought the album. Eddie Harris was a gifted musician who may be gone from our present sight, but he will never be forgotten. His music will forever be enshrined in our hearts.
Hello Ann
KSOL was my Jam! I'm from Berkeley, Ca.
You stopped at the record shop ..😂😂😂💪🏾..how much did that album cost?
This is classic - the drive, the sound and the soul beat of it all - nothing else like this...it lives on for good reasons.
Used to hang out at Shelley's ManneHole in Hollywood in the 60's. heard many of the jazz greats when they would come into town, usually for a gig at Shelley's or to see who else was in town and very often , sit in and jam. It was a great time for jazz. The Crescendo in Hollywood was a great jazz spot also and there, you could catch Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, too!!
Hell yeah 😎💪👍.
That soulful Latin beat still gets the job done in 2022.
@@schpiegel A
What a music, full of soul. Fantastic sax all through. Love from India.
I've been a jazz lover for 60 year's, and this is one of the rockin est tunes ever, Long Live Jazz from this ERA
This tune never fails to uplift and inspire me. Hats off to Eddie Harris👍🤗❤️🌅👏🙏
This music takes me back to the 60's. That's when jazz was really jazz. 🎶🎶
No drive by shootings, we had it good.
Yes absolutely we had it good.
The stupidest most arrogant comment about jazz I think I’ve ever read jazz is a living breathing art form it has nothing to do with when and what
@@skittlesstarburst4532 I wonder what they think Alabama, fables of faubus, etc were all about?
2024 in the house.MR. EDDIE HARRIS!
That was sweet! Anyone else think the Stones gave a nod to Eddie in the sax solo and break that finish Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?” ❤️☮️
yep I think you are correct
Yes and also Glad by Traffic-John Barley Corn.
One of the greatest songs ever recorded!!!I still love this song even after some 50yrs listening to it!!!Thank u,Mr.Harris RIP
When this came out in 67, I was 14 & loved it, electric sax, what a unique sound! RIP EDDIE HARRIS
love at first sight, so soulful! At 77 I love this groove, not easy to play on my sax I warn you.
Thirty years ago I bought an Eddie Harris album with this track on it. At that time (I was 18) I had no idea what I was buying. Boy, did that purchase enrich my life on this planet.
Almost every Jazz musician (which I am not) I meet in The Netherlands (where I live) still speaks very highly of Eddie Harris.
The Man Is A Genius. Thank you @truemantiger for sharing this!
I heard this cut on radio station KBCA 105.1 on my venture to UCLA College campus, I will always remember the awakening of this song, some people pushed it aside, however I find this song a fulfillment.
Hey ! Long live KBCA . And all the jocks there , Chuck Niles, Jim Gosa, Dennis Smith, Gerald Wilson, Leonard Feather, Kogi Seyama, Jai Rich, Rick Holmes . And many others .
listening to Jazz makes me glad i'm part of the human race... We do something right!!!!!
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spot on it sure does
SPOT on articulation Mr. "R"
Amen my brother
Robert Dominguez (-_-)
this reminds me of my childhood at my aunts house waaay back in the day ,,,,, Thank you
First time I heard this? I was hopelessly hooked on jazz... this is a great song... my fav forever♥️😊
My first time hearing this tune was a cover by Albert Collins, which was the kick-off tune for this Live In Japan album in 1984. Now I know where it originated from.
When you're in the groove, it never wears thin. As Monk once said, if you're swinging, swing some more.
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DAMN! YOU CAN'T GROOVE ANY BETTER THAN THIS.
Throughout high school I was in a band class called jazz studies, we learnt about the greats, as well as the theory behind jazz, and also learned & performed all sorts of great blues & jazz charts, and even did some random stuff like the time we turned the mario theme song into a jazz song... but anyways, I am a multi instrumentalist, mostly guitar & piano, and we did this song for one of our concerts, and I was on aux percussion such as guiro, and even the spoons... music is truely the greatest gift to give
shout out to anyone with the good taste to enjoy this music
I first heard this music through my late uncle Frank Gatlin who was a jazz musician and played saxophone at clubs in NYC. It was so amazing to really listen to it as a teenager.
@@vickiehodnett4360 I'm learning this on sax :)
This music (JAZZ) is "TIMELESS!" One of the masters, "EDDIE HARRIS!" GOD REST HIS SOUL!
@@auburnsmith5610 Yes indeed Right On!!
Hell'o
I'm still listening in 2023
Killer song from childhood, this never goes stale. 1960's soul jazz still killing the game. Corona virus cannot complete with this ❤️.
this is what jazz is all about ... timeless
This is really smooth man. Glad my dad played this stuff back in the day. This tune stays in your head and gives you a good easy feeling!!!
My dad did too
Had a pleasure to listen to this song live in Belgrade, some 35 years ago. He was a guest player with some Serbian jazz musicians (Milivoje Mica Markovic and others) in Kolarcev Univerzitet hall in Belgrade. Memorable concert. He (Eddie) was a master class player.
There is always that special selection, the first I heard this Eddie Harris sound I was attached to it. I was about 16 years, I am now 73 years. I still love it.
Good show Mr. Harris even after death !!!
Nobody could throw down a beat like Eddie Harris. NOBODY!
Right on jay
I never dreamed I would be a fan of jazz music. But since my since my daughter has been in band and and I've been exposed to the high school jazz band, I absolutely love it! Our high school jazz band performed this song last night wearing their tuxedos and long black dresses and it was the classiest thing ever. It's so fun when they're performing and dancing because they can't stop from moving. In my heart I was down there dancing on the floor right by them lol
the teacher who told them to play this is a good guy/gal
I was in jazz studies all throughout high school, we did all sorts of great blues & jazz charts... as a rock & outlaw country musician, I never thought Id enjoy jazz, but I was wrong! We performed charts by Eddie Harris including this one, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Red Garland, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a lot more... God I miss that class
@liam_olson as a teenager I listened to hard rock/ hairball rock then I married a farmer and moved to the country where country music dominates that stations so I've learned to like a lot of that too. But the jazz music is something completely different and gets right into your bones! I wish I would've played an instrument!
Truly a Masterpiece!!
I LOVE THIS JAZZ , R I P EDDIE HARRIS GOD CALL YOU HOME 1996, THE SAME YEAR AS MY DAD, YOU ARE GONE BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN, AND MAY MY DAD RIP, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING, THIS BRINGS BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES.
rollerchickable Rest In Paradise Eddie. My Father Passed In 1997 He Played Your Albums Faithfully. Especially You And Les McCann "Second Movement" Shorty Rides Again A True Classic
I love this song! And have it on vinyl in great condition with a lot of Dave Brubeck & Herbie Mann vinyl too!
Glad to have been at the memorial service for Eddie Harris . Twas a memorable event to be sure .
I was in jazz studies all throughout high school, we did all sorts of great blues & jazz charts... as a rock & outlaw country musician, I never thought Id enjoy jazz, but I was wrong! We performed charts by Eddie Harris including this one, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Red Garland, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and a lot more... God I miss that class
I have four dogs who, as dogs do, tend to lay around a lot. But not when this comes on. They are up and wagging. Not even dogs can sit still to this. I kid you not.
well call me spot cause it hits me the same way GREAT STUFF
I'm swaying and grooving - still got some swagger left, this just reminds me.
i hear ya lol
tell yer dogs i'm with them, barking right now!!!
nutin but the dog in me
we sat in a living room and listened for hours...we appreciated their ability to bring us a deliverance.
When I first this song I was in awe of how great a sax player Eddie Harris was!I was a young kid,listenin to all the new rock&roll comin out in the mid 60s,but to me,it doesnt matter what style of music it is,if its good,I want to listen to it!This music crosses all boundaries&makes u happy,no matter who r!Thank u,Mr.Harris!
Mario Cuellar "If it sounds good it is good." Duke Ellington
Mario Cuellar .... I agree. I think sometimes we get to hung up on 'genres'. In my mind there's only two types of music --- good and bad!
When this song came out I was in high school and it would be playing in the school cafeteria. What a great lunch hour it was . This brings back so many wonderful memories
Must have had some pretty hip cafeteria ladies!
Man! Where the fuck did you go to high school?! Wow! Hipschool!
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Helena Mooi if u like this check out sham time
my cafeteria music was all day music by war...where did YOU go to school bro'?!
This cut is one of those that never gets old.
^5, Kris, ya got that right!!!!
bottom?
Kris Peterson NEVERRRRR!!
L
How true it is
I was in the army, stationed in Germany then this came out. Best time of my life. I met some of the most fascinating brothers ever ( black and white ) cats whose like I would never met again. Harris music was prolific but I will always remember him for this track and his sensational "Plug Me In" album and all those cool cats I met in the army back in 67, 68 and 69.
I was in Germany during that time too. Listening to Listen Hear. 1st 2nd Arty baumholder
Robert Jackson/Mizpahboy, seems like a pattern since I graduated from Baumholder HS 1964, and ended back in Germany in the military station at "Paton Barracks" Heidelberg Germany 1967/69 ! Spent a lot of time with cats from NY and playing/ listening to jazz and taping it, and Eddie Harris was a favorite, esp "compare to what".
I was stationed in baumholder in 1967 transfer to Kaiserslautern playedfor the K-Town Defenders basketball team. Eddie Harris was the man. We played in Heidelberg too.
First music I ever recorded to my akai reel to reel component set in Turkey 1971 in ortakoy.
I was in Augsburg and Munich Germany. I bought the album in Augsburg.
long time fan....saw him live in Hollywood with Les McAnn in 1966! Still enjoy after all these years. Thanks for posting. Peace.
this track is so cool & funky love it ,a case of swing yer hips.
Saw him live in South Philly.
I dedicate this song to my aunt rita she died yesterday she played this when I was growing up all the time r.i. p.
Nice Felicia
Condolences, miss.
R.I.P 🎯 Right on, Rita🌡
This groove is so heavy, it even makes dead people tap their feet. Eddie Harris. One Of A Kind.
So deep❤️👌🏽😎
❤
Lol rite !
good music never grows old
And we never die
Rammalowa Nama
And the memories that it brings out are priceless!
Ain't THAT the truth!
Extremely Real Talk.
THIS IS FROM MY YOUTH MY AUNT RITA PLAYED THIS SHE WAS THE JAZZ PERSON SHE DIDNT LISTEN TO BUT JAZZ REMIND ME OF MY YOUTH I LOVE YOU AUNT RITA AND AUNT LEOLA FOR MAKING MY LIFE HAPPIER THANK YOU
+Felicia YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME CRY WOMAN TALKING ABOUT THE LOVE YOUR AUNTS SHOWED YOU DURING YOUR YOUTH. LOVE MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN A CHILD'S LIFE.
Hell yes,this song kicks ass.
*Lee-O-Lah😁* "I bet she was a beaut!"
Punctuation is a wonderful thing. Try it sometime, if able.
Old School... electrifying... if you don't groove to this you don't have a pulse. Out of Sight!!
No such thing is old school.lol
This tune is swingin"!
Wasn’t there an album, The Electrifying Eddie Harris? That’s the album I first heard this song on...
Right on!
@@suecastillo4056 - yes ma'am 😁
Love this. Takes me back to my teen years in Jersey. I wasn't hip to Eddie Harris. I would be over my girlfriend's house and her dad had all these Eddie Harris albums. That's how I became aware of Eddie Harris.
Seems like when I was walking pass a bar full of Old Heads this cut would be blasting from the jukebox. Summer of 68
One of the greatest songs I ever heard. No doubt about it!
I remember er my late uncle George R.I.P. playing this Alblum and song when I was about 12 yr s old thus being one of the songs that introduced me to the world of Jazz
This music is timeless!
I am 65 yrs old. This got me hooked on jazz. Still rockin two LOL
Same age I remember making my little pocket change shining shoe's in the bar's in North Philly and this was on the juke boxes and all the players and O.G 's back then made sure that their shoes had a nice shine...
78
My aunt Rita was a jazz fan that's all she listen to she brought my life so much joy when she was help raising me she play this all the time and I will also be forever grateful for that I listen to jazz band and I love it
I noticed 25, dislikes why how can anybody not like this song
+Thomas Wilson I can guarantee half of them own every Kenny G record ever made!
+roughtake 😂😂😂
I wonder too.
Simple, no imagination.
Thomas Wilson don't pay those Fools no mind.
This song is a classic.
At the age of 17 I blew this for him and my mom and it blew their minds.I miss them soooo MUCH.
Moves straight forward at a moderate tempo. Even a musically clueless individual (like me) can dig this kind of jazz.
He made music history playing this sax the reason it was the first time anybody had a electronic sax. He would play at the Hollywood INN club on 6800 block on Halsted in Chicago IL. As I went to see him the jam a hot track for the times. Also another group played there many times Billy Larkin and The Delegates--Dunmore Music of Monee IL.
like it was then
Hollywood Inn? I thought it was the Sandpiper? God! That's been ages ago. I don't know how I remembered Sandpiper! We were smothered in wonderful music back then with Herb Kent doing RnB and My Boy Sid McCoy doing jazz!
@@ChasGreenALRS I was in basic at Ft. Knox in 65' and couldn't go to sleep one night. I borrowed a radio and started playing with the dial and all of a sudden I picked up WCFL and Sid McCoy. I didn't get much sleep that nigh or any other night I was able to borrow the radio
And then the 70's came along and muddied the water. If not for these recordings of pure, clear & crisp instruments, my ears would die of thirst. I am grateful.
A Masterpiece! Then and Now.......
I am 50 years old, by mistake I listened to Blue Note Records on Spotify, I never turned back, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard Stanley Turrentine n Eddie Harris got me hooked on Jazz from that Era, Blue Note Records gave the world beautiful music.
Moved to So. California in the summer of 69,from the Deep Hateful South, the played a pick up game of basketball and afterwards heard this music and wow!!
Never looked back- Eddie Harris!!
My Dad introduced to this brilliant saxophone player when I was ten and I never forgot this classic bebop tune. I also like the song , Theme in search of a movie. Eddie also did the music for the 1964 movie, Exodus. Awesome and genius scholar musician. 🎷🎼🎹🎼🎵
What a great groove by a great, sometimes under-rated player.
Saw Eddie play with Les McCann at the Kool Jazz Festival in early 70's with my brother Tom- Compared to what- extraordinary- Qman
One of the best that ever played sax ! ! ! We're still "Listening" Eddie R.I.P.
who could argue against that!
Entity-Eight- he's OK. I can think if a least 20 others off the cuff that I prefer.much of his riffs sound redundant.and the electric sax deal was dead end street.but he was just OK.
burt short would be a great favor if you produce or introduce 20 others on that level.
Entity-Eight- I looked up on ranker.com and Eddie ranked 53 on th list.there are many epic players dead and living .many to choose from.but I put on my les Macan and Eddie Harris cd when I want to catch the attention of my non jazz loving friends.still have a vinyl of Swiss movement and Harris's swiss moment album.
Who do you know plays an electric sax on the rankers list.com ? I understand jazz with such instrument is incomprehensible to a few, but others are not insane, though the question may arise.
LOVE ME SOME EDDIE HARRIS!!! HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS KIND OF JAZZ SINCE I WAS 5YEARS OF AGE PLUS!!! THATS WHEN MUSIC WAS MUSIC!!! 49 YEARS AND GOUNTING!!!
Thanks for posting! What a groove!
Got here by way of an obscure reference in a Beastie Boys track from the 90s...glad I decided to search. Eddie Harris had some serious skills. What a great sound.
He had a unique tone all his own.
My Uncle Walter put me onto this music in the early 60's. He is gone on home now but his legacy in my heart is the music he shared in that beautiful Brooklyn brownstone on Monroe Street. Thanks for your love of great music Uncle Walter. My heart will always know you.
That's so beautiful, my daddy hip me to jazz. Listen to KGFJ AM he come turn station.
Ellie Carrol thank you for your family of music to. Stay jazzed up!
Killing this O.G. groove
This song covers every genre of black music.
CLASSIC.
My mom would play this when I was a kid, she inadvertently was my first music appreciation teacher.
I am 11 and was born in 2009 i hope to keep this awesome stuff going for younger generations.
Great song one of my favorites🎷
how have I lived my 48 years and not heard this? It's like trying a new dish.
This reminds me so much of the call and response I hear in African American churches during Tuesday night prayer meetings and Saturday or Sunday afternoon choirs! One can almost create a sermon based on this!
Yes I totally agree.
This cut triangulates and is in that space between jazzy, smooth and funky. That is where this cut lives. Right there. Kenny Garrett is in this vein.
Great track...fond memories. Home mix cassettes..from vinyl albums....driving on uncrowded hiways (not freeways)...sailing smoothly past small towns in big heavy US built autos..rockin & Rollin along....after 'Eddie Harris's track...came 'Memphis Underground' by Herbie Mann...then 'Mercy,Mercy,Mercy..from Cannonball Adderly... Those guys put out good music..still holds up in 2017
Great music is timeless!
Music take me to another level
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Eddie who!!! this was one of the first albums that I bought RIP thank you for the music.
One of my fav' artist of all time . . . .
Thanks for the music Mr Harris I reminds me my father every Sunday morning so smooth
UR Father was TOO COOL
LOVES THIS TRUE CLASSIC FROMEDDIE HARRIS "LISTEN HERE, ONE OF GREATTHE MASTER OF SAX & THIS STILL GREAT JAZZ 4 MY HEART & SOUL
I am forever grateful to have have met and to be a fan. I went to meet a friend at a a club called Bird Land West in Long Beach CA in the late 80's. Went to the bar to have a drink and wait on my friend, little did I know sitting at the bar was Al Williams owner of the club and Les MaCan and Eddie Harris. I wish I could tell you the rest of the story. Thank you Al
This is a smooth funky piece!!!
Eddie Harris will always be around when listening Too good smooth Jazz 💯💯💯💯💯
Still listening in 2017 and beyond.
Good music, like good literature...speaks honestly to the human experience. That's why this will never get old, Eddie had something real to say. Damn this swings...HARD.