Results for "Benny Harris"

Musician

Benny Harris

Born: April 23, 1919

Album

Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946

By Don Byas

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2024

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Charlie Parker: Ten High Flying Albums Of Paradigm Shifting Genius

by Chris May
September 9, 2020

Born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1920, and brought up across the state line in anything-goes, jazz-friendly Kansas City, Missouri, controlled from the mid 1920s to the late 1930s by the spectacularly corrupt politician Tom Prendergast, alto saxophonist Charlie Parker lived fast and hard and passed in 1955, aged only 34 years. A founding father of ...

Article: History of Jazz

Bird's Trumpets

by Matt Lavelle
June 28, 2019

Looking closely at all the trumpet players that played with Thelonious Monk in a piece I wrote in March 2018, I decided to continue the focus, and explore the trumpet players that played with Charlie Parker. As challenging as the trumpet is to play, playing Bebop raised the technical bar. Playing with Charlie Parker at fast ...

Video

Three Guesses

Featuring the music of Benny Harris
Duration: 4:25
April 23, 2011

One of the famous 1943 Charlie Parker "Red Cross" recordings, during the recording ban. Benny Harris is on trumpet. He co-wrote "Ornithology" with Parker, taking the opening of a Parker solo from one of Parker's Jay McShann records.