Eddie Harris - Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1988 (Remastered) (2022) (Hi-Res) FLAC/MP3

The Montreux recording of the song “Compared To What” together with LES MCCANN made EDDIE HARRIS suddenly a famous jazz musician. Located somewhere between Jazz, Funk and Soul, MCCANN and EDDIE HARRIS actually created (this is not an exaggeration!) something like a new style. The hit became the anthem of the civil rights movement. Almost twenty years later, in January of 1988, at the concert of the EDDIE HARRIS QUARTET at the "Fabrik" of Hamburg-Altona, a fair amount can be felt of the fire that once "set the Casino on Lake Geneva ablaze". The seething enthusiasm of Montreux continues in the NDR recordings of January 1988 in Hamburg, where EDDIE HARRIS and his band played a great concert. An artist to be rediscovered!

This musician is simultaneously world-famous and unknown. The label Atlantic periodically re-released the recording of a very special concert he took part in and everybody who is somehow interested in jazz, even if only on it's fringes, most probably has listened to at least one of the numbers performed by the saxophonist Eddie Harris. On 21 June 1969, he met with singer and pianist Les McCann on stage of the old casino of Montreux to unleash what can only be described as a firework of music, hardly ever experienced by the jazz community before. Situated somewhere between jazz, funk and soul, McCann and Eddie Harris actually create (this is no exaggeration!) something like a new style; and Compared to what, Les McCann´s spectacular song oscillating between black consciousness and the civil rights rhetoric, became the hymn of this movement.

Eddie Harris, trumpet, tenor saxophone, piano & vocals
Darryl Thompson, guitar
Ray Peterson, bass
Norman Fearrington, drums

Digitally remastered

1. Blue Bossa (12:18)
2. La Carnival (9:22)
3. Freedom Jazz Dance (19:13)
4. Ice Cream (6:34)
5. Ambidextrous (11:04)
6. Vexatious Progression (14:04)
7. Eddie Who ? (13:47)
8. Get on Down (10:42)