Gene Harris - Plays The Blues (2025)

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Artist: Gene Harris
Title: Plays The Blues
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:18:54
Total Size: 862 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. The Gene Harris Trio – Uptown Sop (08:44)
2. The Gene Harris Quartet – Old Funky Gene's (06:23)
3. Gene Harris – Blues March (Live From Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA / December 11th & 12th, 1998) (11:09)
4. Gene Harris & Brother Jack McDuff – J & G Blues (09:33)
5. Gene Harris – Elephant Blossom Blues (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / 1993) (04:42)
6. The Gene Harris Quartet – Old Dog Blues (Live) (10:30)
7. The Gene Harris Trio Plus One – Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Live) (08:13)
8. The Gene Harris Quartet – Listen Here (05:05)
9. The Gene Harris Quartet – Blues For Basie (06:56)
10. The Gene Harris Quartet – Blues For Jezebel (05:11)
11. Gene Harris & Brother Jack McDuff – Down Home Blues (07:00)
12. The Gene Harris Quartet – Ode To Billy Joe (Live) (08:14)
13. The Gene Harris Trio Plus One – Gene's Lament (Live) (09:32)
14. The Gene Harris All Star Big Band – Captain Bill (03:57)
15. Gene Harris & Brother Jack McDuff – Blues For Big Foot (07:26)
16. The Three Sounds – C-Jam Blues (Live) (02:07)
17. The Gene Harris Quartet – Ahmad's Blues (05:11)
18. The Gene Harris/Scott Hamilton Quintet – Blues For Gene (06:57)
19. The Three Sounds – Babe's Blues (04:37)
20. Gene Harris & Brother Jack McDuff – Cayenne Blues (07:17)

One of the most accessible of all jazz pianists, Gene Harris' soulful style (influenced by Oscar Peterson and containing the blues-iness of a Junior Mance) was immediately likable and predictably excellent. After playing in an Army band (1951-1954), he formed a trio with bassist Andy Simpkins and drummer Bill Dowdy which was, by 1956, known as the Three Sounds. The group was quite popular, and recorded regularly during 1956-1970 for Blue Note and Verve. Although the personnel changed and the music became more R&B-oriented in the early '70s, Harris retained the Three Sounds name for his later Blue Note sets. He retired to Boise, ID, in 1977, and was largely forgotten when Ray Brown persuaded him to return to the spotlight in the early '80s. Harris worked for a time with the Ray Brown Trio and led his own quartets in the years to follow, recording regularly for Concord and heading the Phillip Morris Superband on a few tours; 1998's Tribute to Count Basie even earned a Grammy nomination. While awaiting a kidney transplant, he died on January 16, 2000, at the age of 66. © Scott Yanow

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