Jerome Harris

Jerome Harris (born April 5, 1953) 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. Harris has recorded as a bandleader. Hidden in Plain View (1995), a tribute to saxophonist Eric Dolphy, is described by critic Michael G. Nastos as "the finest [recording] of Harris' small discography."
Discography
As leader
1986 Algorithms (Minor Music)
1990 In Passing (Muse)
1995 Hidden in Plain View (New World)
1999 Rendezvous (Stereophile)
As sideman
With Ray Anderson
1994 Don't Mow Your Lawn (Enja)
1998 Funkorific (Enja)
With Jack DeJohnette
1997 Oneness
1999 Festival (ECM)
With Marty Ehrlich
2000 Malinke's Dance (Omnitone)
2010 Fables (Tzadik)
2013 A Trumpet in the Morning (New World)
With Michael Gregory Jackson
1979 Gifts (Arista Novus)
1979 Hearts & Center (Arista Novus)
With David Krakauer
2012 Pruflas: Book of Angels Volume 18 (Tzadik)
2016 Checkpoint
With Oliver Lake
1982 Jump Up (Gramavision)
1983 Plug It (Gramavision)
With Bob Moses
1984 Visit with the Great Spirit (Gramavision)
1987 The Story of Moses (Gramavision)
With Amina Claudine Myers
1986 Country Girl (Minor Music)
1989 In Touch (Novus)
1993 Women in (E)Motion
With Bobby Previte
1990 Empty Suits (Gramavision)
1991 Music of the Moscow Circus (Gramavision)
1994 Slay the Suitors (Avant)
1997 My Man in Sydney (Enja)
1998 Dangerous Rip (Enja)
With Hank Roberts
1990 Birds of Prey (JMT)
2011 Everything Is Alive (Winter & Winter)
With Sonny Rollins
1979 Don't Ask (Milestone)
1987 Dancing in the Dark (Milestone)
1989 Falling in Love with Jazz (Milestone)
1991 Here's to the People (Milestone)
1991 Don't Stop the Carnival (Milestone)
With Ned Rothenberg
1991 Overlays (Moers)
1995 Real and Imagined Time (Moers)
1998 Port of Entry (Intuition)
2004 Parting (Moers)
2004 Harbinger (Animul)
2007 Inner Diaspora (Tzadik)
With Adam Rudolph
2011 Both/And (Meta)
2015 Turning Towards the Light (Cuneiform)
With Bob Stewart
1989 Goin' Home (JMT)
1996 Then and Now (Postcards)
2014 Mind the Gap (Sunnyside)
With others
1980 Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Editions EG)
1983 George Russell, Live in an American Time Spiral (Soul Note)
1985 Bill Frisell, Rambler (ECM)
1985 Jay Hoggard, Riverside Dance (India Navigation)
1988 Julius Hemphill, Julius Hemphill Big Band (Elektra Musician)
1989 Mark Helias, Desert Blue (Enja)
1992 Jeanne Lee, Natural Affinities (Owl)
1993 John Clark, Il Suono (CMP)
1994 Robert Dick, Third Stone from the Sun (New World)
1994 Henry Threadgill, Song Out of My Trees (Black Saint)
1998 Pheeroan Aklaff, Global Mantras (Modern Masters)
2000 Don Byron, A Fine Line (Blue Note)
2001 Thurman Barker, Time Factor
2004 Sam Newsome, 24/7 (Satchmo)
2005 Paul Motian, Garden of Eden (ECM)
2013 Jaki Byard, Inch by Inch (GM)
2014 Roy Nathanson, Complicated Day (Enja)
References
External links
Official site
American jazz bass guitarists
American jazz guitarists
Jazz fusion musicians
American multi-instrumentalists
Living people
American male bass guitarists
1953 births
American male jazz musicians