Eddie Harris: High Voltage (Recorded Live At The Village Gate in New York and At Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood)

Rating: ★★

Record and Artist Details

E.H. In The U.K. (The London Sessions)

Musicians:

Jeff Beck (g)
Rick Grech (b)
Raymond Burrell (b)
Chris Squire (b)
Ian Paice (d)
Zoot Money (v, org, p)
Tony Kaye (Moog)
Alan White (d, perc)
Lofty Amao (congas)
Stevie Winwood (el-p)
Albert Lee (g)
Eddie Harris (ts)
Neil Hubbard (g)

Label:

Atlantic

March/2015

Catalogue Number:

81227 9589 1

RecordDate:

1973

Musicians:

Billy Hart (d)
Raymond Smith (d)
Melvin Jackson (b)
Eddie Harris (ts)
Jodie Christian (p)

Label:

Atlantic

March/2015

Catalogue Number:

81227 95892

RecordDate:

28 October 1968 & 19 April 1969

Live at Newport

Label:

Sounds of Yesteryear

November/2018

As the 1960s morphed into the 1970s, jazz had to face the problem of appealing to a whole new generation who had been weaned on The Beatles, The Stones, Motown, psychedelia and Hendrix. Like Miles, a few managed the transition, while others thoroughly embarrassed themselves. Though, after the MJQ, Coltrane, Ornette and Mingus were probably among Atlantic's biggest sellers, there were new contenders. Possessed of a somewhat adventurous spirit, Harris wired-up his tenor sax (Varitone) to soon become responsible for heavy traffic at both the box office and checkout were his blend of funk and bizarre electronics found a ready audience – many of them young stoners. Musically, Eddie's outpourings could stagger from old-school Ben Webster soundalike (‘Is There A Place For Us’), dance floor fatback, a bad night at Covent Garden's Middle Earth Club (London Sessions), to that of a Hudson River tug boat. Take your pick. The best here is the ‘live’ High Voltage on which he revisits his 1967 chart success ‘Listen Here’ plus ‘Funky Doo’.

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