Eddie Harris - Listen Here (live Montreux)

[deshinador]

WOW!! Perfect! Hypnoctic, psychedelic... GROOVE!! A big gift from gods!!

[take942]

Truly an AMAZING talent, the likes of which we may never see again.

[jazzjeffjazzjeff]

I had the honor of playing with Eddie a couple of times! He was a gentleman, and of course a genius. We traded choruses on "The Song Is You". He had me playing my best ever! I think this was just a few weeks before he passed. RIP Eddie! Thanks for all the intervals!

[BackToTheBlues]

@gluttony37 That's one of his patented whoops through the mouthpiece.

[papagaio1696]

Hypnotic!!! 

[papagaio1696]

Hypnotic!!!

[IgorTerrible]

Eddie was a unique musician, tremendous groove, funny guy too.

[holyburn]

I traveled many times with Eddie...a real friend...miss ya, Eddie.

[joehiggs100]

Thanks, all my mates love Eddie, and try and keep that vibe in our heads, thanks

[awilliams1179]

definitely a song to wake up to in the mornings

[musiclover2757]

Makes me miss my dad. Eddie Harris was one of his favorites.

[rillloudmother]

Soul Jazz at it's finest and imo, most pure form.

[Toracube]

5:38 Getting Down !!

Great Vid !!

[funkyflautist]

SWEET



[Streamline09]

I think this music was one of the things that inspired Miles's "In A Silent Way" album.

[HellFireKane]

Just Plug Me In Just Like I Was Eddie Harris You're Eating Crazy Cheese Like You'd Think I'm From Paris You Know I Get Fly You Think I Get High You Know That I'm Gone And I'm A Tell You All Why So Tell Me Who Are You Dissing Maybe I'm Missing The Reason That You're Smiling or Wilding So Listen In My Head I Just Want To Take 'em Down Imagination Set Loose And I'm Gonna Shake 'em Down Let It Flow Like A Mud Slide When I Get On I Like To Ride And Glide

[annaxmorrison]

I just can't get enough of this! Thumbs up if you keep on pressing Reply after 7:22. =)

[95841bailey]

@annaxmorrison YES!

[thesearch2011]

This is one of my all time favorits, I've seen other videos of the concert but this is the BOMB! Never will you see this kind of LOVE in what is being played. Put all the videos of this concert together and let them loose. One of the best of the last century..

[1956raffy]

before cool jazz, jazz used to be cool,one sunday afternoon I was taking my daughter to LAX and stopped at dinahs chicken to buy her some french fries! eddie was waiting for an order of fried chicken and I got to tell him how much i dug his music and his invention,he was really cool and let me introduce my daughter to him,listen here was top of the charts for months for good reason

[deBebbler]

Man. Eddie is one Heavy mutha. Listen Here is one of the grooviest from him.

He sure gets respect from me.

[merseymained]

@ennui406- yep. check Brian's other stuff, if you haven't already, you'll love it.

[samduffysinger]

He was a hero and pioneer of one of the earliest amplified saxophones, the Varitone he is playing here. He is doing something genuinely new and different for the time. He is not even listed in most music/jazz reference texts even though his contemporaries are. I would have liked to hear he was also a generous geezer and all round great bloke but knowing he probably wasn't still doesn't diminish his contribution. Maybe he had a reason for having a chip on his shoulder......

[merseymained]

@ennui406- i know where you're coming from with your comment, believe me, and this is excellent, but if you listen to Brian Auger's version it'll lift you from your seat.

[ennui406]

@merseymained Thanks - u are right!!

[ennui406]

Try to sit perfectly still & listen to this cool tune...

[xTurnipTimex]

True music right here. 

[jplew138]

This man never received his just due as a true innovator, mainly because jazz critics don't really like records that sell, and that's a shame. He may have been the real inventor of fusion...I know he was doing this kind of stuff before Miles.

[MrRelax49]

Hat das Puplikum Valium genommen...bei so einen Sound auf Cool sitzen die gehören ...na egal...

[mikekgoroeadira]

Electrifying, groovy and funky. A jazzy boogie woogie!!!

Thank you for the upload.

[sly821]

We were young, 16, 17 and just loved Jazz. My goodness we are older and still seek the brilliance. Our father played with Wes.

[sly821]

After so many years here in the U.S. a man needs something different. I can say that Jazz, reggae, and some pop  is international. So, I go abroad soon. Oh so much like artist have always done.

[ennui406]

Top notch jazz!!!!!!!!!!!

[yahood66]

@alejnikov,it does actually.Tho this IS cool,uve not checked out Brian Auger's version,recorded the same year,69,released on the album Befour,1970?

[alejnikov]

Ah, it does not get much cooler than that, now does it?

[veedazane]

i don't understand what is keeping that audience still. you can tell they're all holding in their urge to get down and dirty, and so they only tap their knees a bit. i want them to let it out!

[9988eddie]

this music, this moment changed my life!!!!!!

Sincerely

Peter Tschirky

autor of the first Eddie Harris book "Eddie Harris sings the Blues"

[JazzmanBerlin]

oh what a great sound,

i miss Eddie "Who" !

[vibrophysics]

electric sax.. just cool

[cdvicious]

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww what a wonderful music!

i can't get enough of it , i want more and more more it's so goodd

[ritzcats77]

what machine is he using?

[precisearts]

@ritzcats77 Selmer Varitone Electronic Sax,Echoplex,manufactured by chgo. Musical Instruments

[precisearts]

@ritzcats77

[LadyDBrooklyn]

WOW!!!! What a groove.  My senior year in high school. Loved this album! Thank you for posting. Nothing like Old School!

[agape4tube]

Heard Eddie play this at the Rhino Club downstairs lounge in Dayton, OH in the late 60's. Also at Gillys there in Dayton.

[beachidiot]

@agape4tube Gilly's is a little slice of heaven.

[bongobeardy]

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[JazzSteps]

Original

[JonnyLikesPie]

what a great clip, thx for posting! at 4:40 - can't help thinking how Hendrix was also time traveling onstage around this time. (69) plugged in and on a voyage, you let Eddie take you with him or u just sit and wait till he gets back :) It's fkn beautiful to watch true artists just do their thing on stage.

[nixtanatos]

GENIUS! Amazing! I didn't knew this amazing musician, just listened in House MD OST.

[Lundy1997]

Mercy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cobraristein]

The "Electrifing Eddie Harris" LP is wonderful.

It has "listen here" on it.

Infectious groove man!

[MrSurfer16]

blues st it's best!!!!!!

[jayhawk333]

the audience looks so bored!!! how is that possible!?

[nomorefriday]

@jayhawk333 they're Swiss... actually they 're groovin' and having a good time

[EVOWORLD13]

I actually had the pleasure of meeting Eddie at Jimmy Smith's Supper Club in North Hollywood, California. I used to go there to sit in on the Jam Session on Monday nights. He came in one monday night and set up his sax and amp. All I can say is WOW! What a night! At closing time, I helped him load his gear into his car and we talked for a while before he left. It was an evening to remember!

[arturoldies]

splendido !!!!!

[vooptr]

where can I get a recordin of this!!

[vooptr]

where can i get a recordin of this!!

[rolex427sc]

truly perfection and just right for drifting off to @ late night..

[aammirr]

. . . many of Harris' tunes share similarities; especially basslines. I'm sure keys, as well. My friends and I have nothing if not the highest regard for Eddie Harris. I'm sure he meant in the "business" and not all the 'Fandmonia" he created.

[mikejudgenot]

p.e.r.f.e.c.t.i.o.n.

[catfishbk]

Eddie Harris Rules! He hit me hard when I personally discovered him about 12 years ago...

[colecahill]

my old man produced "compared to what" and many Les McCann albums. He also produced some Eddie Harris recordings. I knew Eddie from about the age of 6 until his death when I was about 25. Eddie had his issues, but he was a great guy he just was angry because he wanted more respect. I think he deserved it but you have to give respect to get it and Eddie could be a little nasty sometimes. Either way.he was as heavy a musician as Ive ever been around. It doesnt get much heavier. great teacher too!

[terriclair]

My parents loved jazz so much and these guys were some of their favorites. It must've been nice to be that close to these guys...

[glidernyc]

Cool story. Eddie Harris was certainly respected in my household when I was growing up. Think my dad had a 12 record jazz collection, with 5 or 6 of them being Eddie's stuff on Veejay and Atlantic, etc. Eddie was just so damn exciting when he played. There used to be a beautiful black and white film on You Tube of Eddie and Les doing Compared to What at Montreaux (sounded like the exact version that made it on to the Swiss Movement LP). Alas, seems like it is no longer here on You Tube.

[ColdSmoke410]

@glidernyc

It was actually the whole album, in parts, that was here before. Shame it's gone because it was amazing footage from 50 years ago.

[waltherppk1000]

@colecahill --too cool An hour to have you here.

[tuxguys]

Put away the notion of "three-chord rock'n'roll". "Two chord Soul-jazz," by those that can really do it, will bury it every time.

[mrez318]

hey i dont wanna sound like a sucker or anything...but is this called Cold Duck Time as well?

[deepkeel65]

Nope, it's "Listen here". "Cold Duck Time" is another tune.

[jaybou263]

a master.

[mcfunkyfreshhh]

MUSICAL SOUNDS are the language of the world and the universe.

Only when these musical sounds are analyzed, categorized, overly dramatized, and sometimes chastised is when man fails to realize that a musical sound is

BEAUTY OF LIFE ITSELF.

Eddie Harris

[macrolec]

@mcfunkyfreshhh: Amen!

[sisyphus511]

@mcfunkyfreshhh

...and cuisine for the discerning gourmet who for one moment can forget the misery that exists in many parts of this planet...one doesn't need to speak the language to appreciate either one.

[mcfunkyfreshhh]

Happy Birthday!!!!! Eddie Whooo?

[jazzyjay334]

Happy Birthday Eddie Harris! He would've been 73 today!

[TheOriginalEntz]

I definitely want to "listen here" : )

[reademup38]

Thinking about all the maddness in the world ,the sound of Eddie Harris simply blows all the pain away. I starting to see the magic in reality. Blow Eddie Blow !Blow all the bullshit away, like rain clouds being blowed away on a stormy day, blow

until the souls of all man kind clean up their downtrodden Minds-blow us a healin

[mackvandyke]

What's the name of this song? Someone tell me.

[Mamasan41]

Thank you!

[marcelloferri]

si!

[icanbethere]

One would think the Swiss would approve of perfect time

[gorillafishcat]

Don't think they could have found a worse audience - heads in their hands... its criminal.

[rrarmm]

Chi-Town's Mr. Jodie Christian

[kasponya]

Is that Bobby Lyle on piano?

[todayishoy]

He is using the Maestro Woodwind Sound System in this recording. I have 2 of them myself (One I want to sell.)

[RLW1967]

For those who are real Eddie Harris fans on here, Eddie Harris also used a multi effect unit called the rhythm and sound made by Gibson- Maestro. He also used a Colorsound wah- wah pedal for a short time.

[jodawara]

great piece!

thanks for the post.

[jjdiggincrates]

yeah wtf alot of them do haha this is great though thanks for posting

[saxman1023]

Is it just me or does the audience seem bored?

[MauriceFlower]

Lovely!

[tomka13300]

GREAT & Jazzzzadelic !

[Jimmyhendrixrules]

anyone got the chords for this one? theres only two but i forgot what they were...

[vhfw]

C7 and F7 man, who knew such poetry could come from two simple chords!

[fiddlercrab3]

I7, and IV7.

Concert: Bb7 and Eb7

On a tenor sax: C7 and F7

God bless.

[QansasjayhawQ]

This man saved my life when I was a teenager. Awesome human being, even with all his problems!

And you can hear the beginnings of 'Listen Hear Goes Funky' at the beginning . . .

[badgerdogcatmouse]

were you that cat they wrote about in waxpoetics?

there was some story about a kid who was told by some thugs to play something on the sax he had and all he knew was listen here.

either way, Eddies the man

[watski]

lovely, nice bit of freedom jazz dance at the end as well....bonus !!

[happyseaurchin]

um

legendary

he was so deep in that groove

marianna depth

[temasparapiano]

mutoi bom!

[dingdames33343]

Is that a microphone connected to his mouthpiece?

[benefielblues]

basically. It's called a "Varitone" sax. It has a special pickup in the neck. They're almost impossible to get a hold of nowadays. :/

[roxymodest]

a damn shame because look at the sonic possibilities!

even without a "varitone" sax, to play like eddie harris would be a gift

[BackToTheBlues]

Sonny Stitt used a Varitone too, it wasn't a sax in itself but an attachment. Eddie is also using a tape echo to make the 'multi-eddie' effect, I use two pedals with my sax, a Boss digital octave divider and a Digitech Whammy pedal usually set in the major/minor 3rd position. With those two going into seperate channels of the p.a. I can get three piece horn section sounds. Still can't play like Eddie though!

[RLW1967]

He was using a tape echo unit called the Echoplex.

[mcmayspulliam]

Yes it is he started fusion music with this song with his " Electric Saxaphone ".

[take942]

I first heard the album "Swiss Movement" when I was 17, as I walked into a record store with my father, as we always would. It was on the turntable playing Compared to What.

I practically wore out the album back in high school days of the early 70's.

It is so great to see these guys perform. Eddie Harris must have been having an outer body experience during this performance. Great photography.

[diego3435]

This is so great

[colepato23]

Eddie Harris was one of the most underrated musicians in history of Jazz! A true innovator not an imitator. Genius.

[sbrownie]

i whole-heartedly agree with you...so DESERVING OF PRAISE...

[mcmayspulliam]

A true genius,

in the same category as Miles Davis

never an imitator never afraid to experiment.

[gottobereal03]

This brings back memories of the good old

times. Real funky and jazzy. Thanks for sharing this piece.