For Bird and Bags

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For Bird and Bags
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Studio album by Eddie Harris
Released 1965
Recorded 1963
Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length35:41
Label Exodus
EX/EXS-6002
Producer Donald Elfman
Eddie Harris chronology
Half and Half
(1963)		For Bird and Bags
(1965)		 Cool Sax, Warm Heart
(1964)
Sculpture Cover
Sculpture (album).jpg
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For Bird and Bags is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded for the Vee-Jay label but released on Exodus when Vee-Jay was struggling financially. [2] [3] The album was also released on the Buddah label as Sculpture in 1969. [4]

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.

Exodus Records was a semi-independent record label started in 1966. It was dependent on Vee-Jay Records for both masters and sleeves.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review states "Throughout, Harris (whose mastery of the extreme upper register and immediately recognizable sound are both quite impressive) is in excellent form". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

  1. "Salute to Bird" – 8:47
  2. "I'm As Happy As I Want To Be" – 5:35
  3. "The River Nile" – 5:00
  4. "Salute to Bags" – 9:57
  5. "Samba de Orfeu" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 2:50
  6. "Only the Lonely" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:42
  7. "Checkmate" (John Williams) – 4:50

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".

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Charles Stepney was an American record producer, arranger, songwriter and musician. Stepney is noted for his work with artistes such as The Dells, Ramsey Lewis, Rotary Connection and Earth, Wind & Fire.

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Callahan, M. and Edwards, D. Exodus album discography accessed May 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Eddie Harris discography, accessed June 22, 2017
  4. ↑ Eyries, P., Edwards, D. and Callahan, M. Buddah Album Discography, Part 2 – 5600 and Miscellaneous Series accessed May 16, 2012
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