Mixed Bag but Listen here and Sham Time are pure Swiss Movement cool and cookin' while "I Don't Want No One but You" is cool and loungin' with the great full eddie Harris sound. Sadly he tried to have another movie theme hit and some of the other tunes are a little too schmaltzy, but still nice sax.
There have been plenty of amusing jazz musicians, from Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller on down, but few as riotously funny as tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris. In 1975 he even put out a comedy record of on-stage chatter, The Reason Why I'm Talking S--t. The opening monologue is a masterpiece of audience alienation, in which he describes what's on the minds of the men and women at that evening's Eddie Harris concert. By the time… more »
