Sounds Incredible

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Sounds Incredible
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Studio album by Eddie Harris
Released 1980
Recorded March 1980
Studio Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Genre Jazz
Length42:02
Label Angelaco
AN 3002
Eddie Harris chronology
Playin' with Myself
(1979) Playin' with Myself 1979		Sounds Incredible
(1980)		 Steps Up
(1981) Steps Up1981

Sounds Incredible is an album by saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded in 1980 and originally released on the short-lived Angelaco label. [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."

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Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic said "Starting with this LP, Eddie Harris ended his flirtations with the mass market, choosing to record mostly in a straight-ahead, bop-rooted manner for a variety of small American and European labels for the rest of his life. His electronic experimentations did not end, though, and he puts them to marvelously musical use here ... Worth seeking out". [3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except where noted

  1. "Matchmaker" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 8:37
  2. "You Know It's Wrong" – 4:56
  3. "Commotion" – 7:16
  4. "Singing My Cares Away" (Harris, Esmond Edwards) – 9:38
  5. "Remember to Smile" (James Leary) – 6:25
  6. "Photographs of You" (Harris, Edwards) – 5:10


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.

James H. Leary is an American double bass player and arranger/composer, who played with the Count Basie Orchestra, Nancy Wilson, Earl Hines, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Dizzy Gillespie with the San Francisco Pops conducted by Arthur Fiedler, Max Roach, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Johnny Hartman, Major Lance, Johnny Taylor, Esther Phillips, Rosemary Clooney, and Don Shirley. His involvement with Broadway shows included Eubie!, They're Playing Our Song, Ain't Misbehavin', Bubbling Brown Sugar, Five Guys Named Moe, Timbuktu! with Eartha Kitt, Oakland Symphony Bass Section, Pharoah Sanders, Red Garland, Jaki Byard, Randy Weston, and John Handy.

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References

  1. ↑ Discogs album entry, accessed June 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Eddie Harris Discography, accessed June 22, 2017
  3. 1 2 Ginell, Richard S.. Eddie Harris: Sounds Incredible – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 19, 2017.
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