Jimmy Harris

Best known of the trumpeter’s collaborative songwriting credits is “Cloudburst,” a snazzy big-band instrumental eventually vamped into an extraordinary feature for vocal groupings such as for example Lambert, Hendricks & Ross as well as the Pointer Sisters. Jimmy Harris performed and recorded using the music group of Erskine Hawkins through the ’40s, turning up on several dozen recording periods between then as well as the past due ’50s. Harris’ supple riffs supplied chewing grips for some effective otherwise particularly exclusive R&B instrumentals, well-liked by honking soloists such as for example Sam “THE PERSON” Taylor, occasionally as appetizing being a “Seafood Move,” at various other moments as grand as “THE BEST Defeat” or the “Great Winds” would guarantee. The trumpeter’s peers within the Hawkins music group included (needless to say) the employer, himself a trumpeter, in addition to Matthew Gee, Sammy Lowe, and Wilbur Bascomb.