eddie harris in the UK

[Guest ariceffron]

who as heard this please discribe in detail...is this for real?? why didnt i know about this. is this serioulsy for real--- squire and white as backup for eddie harris??? HOW COME THIS NEVER CAME U P!??!?

E.H. in the U.K.

The Eddie Harris London Sessions

1974 Atlantic Records

Side One

1. Baby (6:45)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Neil Hubbard, Zoot Money, Raymond Burrell, and Alan White

2. Wait A Little Longer (4:12)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Neil Hubbard, Zoot Money, Raymond Burrell, and Alan White

3. He's Island Man (2:25)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Raymond Burrell, Ian Paice, and Lofty Amao

4. I've Tried Everything (8:13)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Ian Paice, and Lofty Amao

Side Two

1. I Waited For You (5:48)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Steve Winwood, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Tony Kaye

2. Conversations Of Everything And Nothing (15:54)

Eddie Harris, Albert Lee, Steve Winwood, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Tony Kaye

[couw]

samples

[Guest ariceffron]

SOUNDS KIND OF WIERD. SQUIRE, WHITE, AND TONY KAYE ON ORGAN AND WINWOOD ON SYNTH. WHAT IN THE FUCKING ASS HELL IS THAT ABOUT. SO I GUESS WHITE PLAYED WITH KAYE BEFORE THE 80S AFTERALL

[Guest ariceffron]

WHAT IF THEY PLAYED A CONCERT WITH EDDIE. THAT WOULD JUST BE WAY OUT OF CONTROL

[JSngry]

squire and white as backup for eddie harris???

At first glance, I read "squire" as "square".

And didn't bat an eye.

[mikeweil]

Remember I gave it a listen in a shop when it was first released, and thought it was the dullest Eddie Harris album I had ever heard. Didn't give it another try. I dunno ... the grooves were too weak.

[JSngry]

Square and white, right?

[jazzbo]

It's got some really good Eddie on it. . .imo.

[mikeweil]

Square and white, right? 

Judging from your (avatar) background, Jim - square and white - I guess you know what you're talking about ......

Edited November 17, 2004 by mikeweil

[mikeweil]

It's got some really good Eddie on it. . .imo.

Eddie was bad enough to give a good performance regardless of context - but the backup bands .....

[Guest ariceffron]

part of the problem i hear is its just loose jamming. if eddie commisioned howe and squire to write a song for them it would be a whole nother story

[mikeweil]

part of the problem i hear is its just loose jamming. if eddie commisioned howe and squire to write a song for them it would be a whole nother story

Atlantic's producers had a lot of similar ideas in those years - remember Herbie Mann played with Reggae groups, the Muscle Shoals rhythm team a.m.o. - Robin Kenyatta with Reggae, Yusef Lateef and Rahsaan Roland Kirk with soul musicians ..... ? They probably got together in the studio unprepared and did just that - jam.

[JSngry]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this Eddie thing a sort of "jazz response" to things like the Chess HOWLING WOLF U.K. SESSIONS, etc.?

[JSngry]

Square and white, right? 

Judging from your (avatar) background, Jim - square and white - I guess you know what you're talking about ......

More than you know!

[mikeweil]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this Eddie thing a sort of "jazz response" to things like the Chess HOWLING WOLF U.K. SESSIONS, etc.?

... and the Muddy Waters London Sessions and the like. In retrospect, an unsucessful attempt at reconquering the market they had lost to the British invasion?