Live at Newport (Eddie Harris album)

Live at Newport

Live album by Eddie Harris

Released

1970

Recorded

July 12, 1970
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:29

Label

Atlantic
SD 1595

Producer

Joel Dorn, Eddie Harris and Marvin Lagunoff

Eddie Harris chronology

Come on Down!
(1970)

Live at Newport
(1970)

Second Movement
(1971)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Live at Newport is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1970 and released on the Atlantic label.^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "These advanced tracks didn't win him any points with the critics of the time but hindsight reveals that harmonically as well as electronically, Harris was ahead of most of the pack".^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Harris except as indicated

"Children's Song" - 6:13
"Carry on Brother" - 5:12
"Don't You Know the Future's in Space" - 8:05
"Silent Majority" (Gene McDaniels) - 5:47
"Walk Soft" - 4:15
"South Side" - 8:57

Personnel

Eddie Harris - tenor saxophone, varitone
Jodie Christian - piano, electric piano
Louis Spears - bass
Robert Crowder - drums
Eugene McDaniels - vocals (track 4)

References

1 2 Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed May 10, 2012
↑ Atlantic Records discography accessed May 11, 2012

Eddie Harris

Studio albums	Exodus to Jazz (1961) Mighty Like a Rose (1961) Jazz for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) A Study in Jazz (1962) Eddie Harris Goes to the Movies (1962) Bossa Nova (1963) For Bird and Bags (1964) Cool Sax, Warm Heart (1964) Here Comes the Judge (1964) Cool Sax from Hollywood to Broadway (1965) The In Sound (1965) Mean Greens (1966) The Tender Storm (1967) The Electrifying Eddie Harris (1968) Plug Me In (1968) Silver Cycles (1968) Free Speech (1969) Come on Down! (1970) Second Movement (1971) Instant Death (1971) Eddie Harris Sings the Blues (1972) Excursions (1973) E.H. in the U.K. (1974) Is It In (1974) I Need Some Money (1974) Bad Luck Is All I Have (1975) That Is Why You're Overweight (1975) The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t 1976 (1975) How Can You Live Like That? (1976)

Live albums	High Voltage (1969) Swiss Movement (1969) Live at Newport (1970)

Soundtrack albums	Pourquoi L'Amérique (1968)

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