Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies

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Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies
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Studio album by Eddie Harris
Released 1962
Recorded 1962
Genre Jazz
Length27:11
Label Vee-Jay
VJLP 3031
Eddie Harris chronology
A Study in Jazz
(1962)		Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies
(1962)		 Bossa Nova
(1962)

Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies is the fifth album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris. Recorded in 1962 and released on the Vee-Jay label the album features Harris performing orchestral arrangements of many motion picture themes of the era. [1] [2]

Eddie Harris American saxophonist

Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", recorded and popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here."

Vee-Jay Records US record label

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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Reception

The Allmusic review states "With the wine-and-candlelight string backdrops of Dick Marx throwing velvet drapery in back of a lush tenor sax, this LP oozes the mood-music formula so favored by pop record producers in mid-century America... A period piece, but seductive if you're in the mood". [3]

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Track listing

  1. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) - 3:08
  2. "Be My Love" (Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn) - 2:16
  3. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 2:34
  4. "Secret Love" (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:13
  5. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 3:02
  6. "Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:18
  7. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 3:31
  8. "Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 2:32
  9. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Jule Styne) - 2:50
  10. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) - 2:47

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Richard Henry "Dick" Marx was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He also composed for film, television, and commercials.

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References

  1. ↑ Callahan, M. & Edwards, D. Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978) accessed May 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Eddie Harris discography, accessed June 22, 2017
  3. 1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed May 7, 2012
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