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eddie harris late 60's appreciation

akoako https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,419 Posts
edited December 2006 in Strut Central
ive been listening to my "funky doo" and "wait, please" 45s nonstop for a few months now. this shit is just so goddamn good....just builds and builds and ends on some echo shit....perfection.

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  • MorseCodeMorseCode 1,516 Posts
    I've been really feeling the Silver Cycles LP lately, especially the track "Smoke Signals." That early electric shit he was doing aroung that time, soooo nice.
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    "The Electrifying Eddie Harris" is one of the few funky jazz record I've kept over the years.

    -Signed: A "Funk Hatter"
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I've been really feeling the Silver Cycles LP lately, especially the track "Smoke Signals." That early electric shit he was doing aroung that time, soooo nice.

    This was a little bit after the late sixties, but you should hear 1973's "Drunk Man," this sick little jam where not only is he playing sax through some electronic apparatus (the Varitone), but he's talking through it as well...
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    This was a little bit after the late sixties, but you should hear 1973's "Drunk Man," this sick little jam where not only is he playing sax through some electronic apparatus (the Varitone), but he's talking through it as well...

    I've picked up some stuff recently where others have done that too: Lester Bowie and of course Rahsaan Roland Kirk. There's another one, where the guy is talking through his flute but I don't remember who it was.
  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    ive been listening to my "funky doo" and "wait, please" 45s nonstop for a few months now. this shit is just so goddamn good....just builds and builds and ends on some echo shit....perfection.

    Hey Ako,

    Eddie Harris is one of my favorites from that time period. I have all of his stuff from that era and there after (in the 70's). I used to sample the shit out of that stuff (e.g., "Hey Wado", "Wait Please", "Ballad (for my Love)") in the late 80's/early 90's too.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak
  • dec0ndec0n 38 Posts
    I really like "Plug Me In" on Atlantic after "The Electrifying".
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    This was a little bit after the late sixties, but you should hear 1973's "Drunk Man," this sick little jam where not only is he playing sax through some electronic apparatus (the Varitone), but he's talking through it as well...

    I've picked up some stuff recently where others have done that too: Lester Bowie and of course Rahsaan Roland Kirk. There's another one, where the guy is talking through his flute but I don't remember who it was.

    Harold Alexander?

    There's one track on his Sunshine Man album where he is just babbling up a storm...with the flute still in his mouth...
  • motown67motown67 4,513 Posts
    This was a little bit after the late sixties, but you should hear 1973's "Drunk Man," this sick little jam where not only is he playing sax through some electronic apparatus (the Varitone), but he's talking through it as well...

    I've picked up some stuff recently where others have done that too: Lester Bowie and of course Rahsaan Roland Kirk. There's another one, where the guy is talking through his flute but I don't remember who it was.

    Harold Alexander?

    There's one track on his Sunshine Man album where he is just babbling up a storm...with the flute still in his mouth...

    There were actually a couple other people doing that same thing, and Harold Alexander did that on a couple albums as well.

    Alexander LPs with that:

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=30

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=31

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=32

    Don Burrows from Australia:

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1773

    Kirk:

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=2111

    Alexander with Pucho:

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1589

    I think Ken Munson might havae done some of that as well:

    http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1549
  • crossingscrossings 946 Posts
    Clark Terry used to make his varitone trumpet talk as well... he'd carry a conversation with it throughout a song... so i guess he's one more to add to that list.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Eddie Harris is one of my favorites from that time period. I have all of his stuff from that era and there after (in the 70's).

    So what do you think of his comedy album, The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t?
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  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts
    Eddie Harris is one of my favorites from that time period. I have all of his stuff from that era and there after (in the 70's).

    So what do you think of his comedy album, The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t?

    My friend sam, who isn't into records at all, absolutely loves this record. There was a period of about a year that he would ask me to play it every time he came over. It is a pretty funny record though. When that lady in the back says "why do you say fuck all the time?"... that shit kills me.
  • the3rdstreamthe3rdstream 1,980 Posts
    does anyone have a copy of "Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for me?, its early 60s but whatever
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    does anyone have a copy of "Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for me?, its early 60s but whatever

    Is it fonkay!? Early 1960s = not a very fonkay era!

  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    OWWWWW!

    That picture needs to be made into a R Vincent avatar: "On the one! AOWWWWWW!"
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    OWWWWW!

    That picture needs to be made into a R Vincent avatar: "On the one! AOWWWWWW!"

    I was actually hoping to find the pic of Vincent modelling the Trombipulation-style rubber elephant nose for his class--that one really should be its own graemlin.
  • G_BalliandoG_Balliando 3,916 Posts


    I've picked up some stuff recently where others have done that too: Lester Bowie and of course Rahsaan Roland Kirk. There's another one, where the guy is talking through his flute but I don't remember who it was.

    I love Rahsaan's version of Ain't No Sunshine on Blucknuss. He sings the chorus through his flute on that one.
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    does anyone have a copy of "Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for me?, its early 60s but whatever

    I've been through three of his Vee-Jay Lps including this one - for me the only keeper was 'Bossa Nova', the others were just too dry... Tiffany's was okay but not much different than the OST from what I recall
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    does anyone have a copy of "Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for me?, its early 60s but whatever

    I've been through three of his Vee-Jay Lps including this one - for me the only keeper was 'Bossa Nova', the others were just too dry... Tiffany's was okay but not much different than the OST from what I recall

    So it isn't fonkay?!
  • the3rdstreamthe3rdstream 1,980 Posts
    does anyone have a copy of "Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"" for me?, its early 60s but whatever

    I've been through three of his Vee-Jay Lps including this one - for me the only keeper was 'Bossa Nova', the others were just too dry... Tiffany's was okay but not much different than the OST from what I recall

    So it isn't fonkay?!

    funk a fonkay, iam looking for tasteful
  • TSGTSG 274 Posts
    i need some money is fonkay
  • upskibooupskiboo 2,396 Posts
    appreciate FONKAY!
  • akoako https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,419 Posts



    WOW THANKS, how come nobody else said anything about these?
  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    Eddie Harris is one of my favorites from that time period. I have all of his stuff from that era and there after (in the 70's).

    So what do you think of his comedy album, The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t?

    Actually, Eddie was a funny dude. I liked him better on sax, though.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak
  • akoako https://soundcloud.com/a-ko 3,419 Posts
    man, whenever he activates the echo it sends chills down my spine...
  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    man, whenever he activates the echo it sends chills down my spine...

    If I had gotten signed back in the late 80's/early 90's, I would have been paying his mortgage with sample clearances. I caught my earlier mistake. Mr. Harris passed in 1996 (I was thinking of Cal Tjader passing in the early 80's).

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak
  • TSGTSG 274 Posts
    man, whenever he activates the echo it sends chills down my spine...

    my father would see him live in chicago and raves about it til this day...majestic soul!@
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I've been getting into electric-era Eddie Harris a lot lately. His sixties albums aren't bad, but after he started "plugging in," his records took on a whole new resonance.

    Bought over the past week: Come On Down! and E.H. In The U.K.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I saw Eddie Harris at Jazz De Opus back in '80.
    I thought Ron Steen's trio was backing him up with Peter Boe on keys, but Peter says it wasn't them.

    Anyway, Eddie Harris was funny.
    He also mentioned that does a lot of cartoon background music because it is so hard to play and keeps your sight reading chops fresh.

    And because no one mentioned it let me say Swiss Movement, Compared To What.
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