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Gene Harris & the Philip Morris All-Stars: Live

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

All–Stars? They don’t shine much brighter than this. Most of these gentlemen have been winning Jazz polls and receiving other well–deserved honors for many years. The exception is drummer Nash, a relative newcomer who isn’t winning many polls — yet — but should be, and who certainly isn’t out of place among these heavyweights. This concert, recorded in April 1995 at the University Club in San Diego, California, was part of a seminar whose focus was, appropriately enough, free speech, ...

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Gene Harris and Brother Jack McDuff: Down Home Blues

Read "Down Home Blues" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1997

When Niki Harris sings about how much she loves it “when Daddy plays those down home blues," she knows what she's talking about. The Daddy in her case is none other than Gene Harris, the 64-year-old blues pianist. Gene features his little girl (a long-tenured backup singer for Madonna as well as Anita Baker and Quincy Jones) on two numbers on his new collaboration with Brother Jack McDuff, Down Home Blues. Another singer, Curtis Stigers, is on hand on two ...