Eddie Harris: High Voltage (Recorded Live At The Village Gate in New York and At Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood)
Author: Roy Carr
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E.H. In The U.K. (The London Sessions)
Musicians: |
Jeff Beck (g) |
Label: |
Atlantic |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2015 |
Catalogue Number: |
81227 9589 1 |
RecordDate: |
1973 |
Musicians: |
Billy Hart (d) |
Label: |
Atlantic |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2015 |
Catalogue Number: |
81227 95892 |
RecordDate: |
28 October 1968 & 19 April 1969 |
Live at Newport
Label: |
Sounds of Yesteryear |
Magazine Review Date: |
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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