Jerome Harris
Jerome Harris is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion.
He came to prominence in 1978 playing bass guitar and guitar with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with whom he would perform and record intermittently until the mid-1990s. Harris went on to work with drummers Jack DeJohnette, Paul Motian, Bob Moses and Bobby Previte, clarinetist David Krakauer, trombonist Ray Anderson, pianist/organist/vocalist Amina Claudine Myers, and saxophonist/clarinetists Don Byron and Marty Ehrlich, among others.
Harris has recorded four albums as a bandleader. Hidden in Plain View, a tribute to saxophonist Eric Dolphy, is described by critic Michael G. Nastos as "the finest of Harris' small discography."Discography
As leader
- 1986 Algorithms
- 1990 In Passing
- 1995 Hidden in Plain View
As sideman
With Ray Anderson
- 1994 Don't Mow Your Lawn
- 1998 Funkorific
With Jack DeJohnette
- 1997 Oneness
- 1999 Festival
With Marty Ehrlich
- 2000 Malinke's Dance
- 2010 Fables
- 2013 A Trumpet in the Morning
With Michael Gregory Jackson
- 1979 Gifts
- 1979 Hearts & Center
With David Krakauer
With Oliver Lake
- 1982 Jump Up
- 1983 Plug It
With Bob Moses
With Amina Claudine Myers
- 1986 Country Girl
- 1989 In Touch
- 1993 Women in Motion
With Bobby Previte
- 1990 Empty Suits
- 1991 Music of the Moscow Circus
- 1994 Slay the Suitors
- 1997 My Man in Sydney
- 1998 Dangerous Rip
With Hank Roberts
With Sonny Rollins
With Ned Rothenberg
- 1991 Overlays
- 1995 Real and Imagined Time
- 1998 Port of Entry
- 2004 Parting
- 2004 Harbinger
- 2007 Inner Diaspora
With Adam Rudolph
With Bob Stewart
- 1989 Goin' Home
- 1996 Then and Now
- 2014 Mind the Gap
With others
' 1983 George Russell, Live in an American Time Spiral 1985 Bill Frisell, Rambler 1985 Jay Hoggard, Riverside Dance 1988 Julius Hemphill, Julius Hemphill Big Band 1989 Mark Helias, Desert Blue 1992 Jeanne Lee, Natural Affinities 1993 John Clark, Il Suono 1994 Robert Dick, Third Stone from the Sun 1994 Henry Threadgill, Song Out of My Trees 1998 Pheeroan Aklaff, Global Mantras 2000 Don Byron, A Fine Line 2001 Thurman Barker, Time Factor 2004 Sam Newsome, 24/7 2005 Paul Motian, Garden of Eden 2013 Jaki Byard, Inch by Inch 2014 Roy Nathanson, Complicated Day