Only the Best of Eddie Harris, Vol. 1

Original Release Date:  April 28, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. Get On Up And Dance
• 2. Bad Luck Is All I Have
• 3. It Feels So Good
• 4. Why Must We Part
• 5. Obnoxious
• 6. Abstractions
• 7. How Can I Find Some Way To Tell You
• 8. Love Is Too Much To Touch
• 9. How Can You Live Like That?
• 10. Get Down With It
• 11. I'd Love To Take You Home
• 12. Come Dance with Me
• 13. Bird of Stone
• 14. Ambidextrous
• 15. Nothing Else To Do
• 16. Don't You Know Your Future's In Space
• 17. Live Right Now
• 18. Really
• 19. Nowhere To Go
• 20. Fooltish
• 21. Why Don't You Quit
• 22. People Getting Ready to Go See Eddie Harris
• 23. What I'm Thinking, Before I Start Playing
• 24. Are There Any Questions
• 25. The Reason Why I'm Talking
• 26. The Next Band/Brother Soul, Pt. I
• 27. Ain't S--t Happening/Brother Soul, Pt. II
• 28. Project and High Rises/Bee Bump
• 29. Singing and Straining/The Aftermath
• 30. People Enjoying Themselves
• 31. Eddie Atlantic [Live]
• 32. Chicago Serenade
• 33. Since I Fell For You
• 34. Stum Stang
• 35. Django's Castle
• 36. More Soul, Than Soulful
• 37. Everything Happens To Me
• 38. But Not For Me
• 39. Brother Ed
• 40. Hip Hoppin'
• 41. People
• 42. From Russia with Love
• 43. Topkapi
• 44. Days of Wine and Roses
• 45. Groovy Movies
• 46. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
• 47. Theme From "Malamondo" ("Funny World")
• 48. Sarah's Theme
• 49. On Green Dolphin Street
• 50. Night Must Fall
• 51. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• 52. Little Lo Lo
• 53. Baby
• 54. Wait a Little Longer
• 55. He's Island Man
• 56. I've Tried Everything
• 57. I Waited For You
• 58. Conversations of Everything and Nothing
• 59. Funkaroma
• 60. Is It In
• 61. It's War
• 62. Space Commercial
• 63. Look Ahere
• 64. These Lonely Nights
• 65. Tranquility & Antagonistic
• 66. Drunk Man
• 67. Renovated Rhythm
• 68. Inapplicable Concord
• 69. Listen Here Goes Funky
• 70. Turbulence
• 71. Of Age
• 72. Fragmentary Apparitions
• 73. Hey Wado
• 74. Aleph The Fool
• 75. Recess
• 76. I'm Lonely
• 77. Oleo
• 78. Wait Please
• 79. Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova
• 80. Pentology
• 81. Bold and Black
• 82. The Things You Do
• 83. Free Speech
• 84. It's All Right Now
• 85. Why Do You Hurt Me
• 86. Flowers
• 87. That Is Why You're Overweight
• 88. Tryin' Ain't Dyin'
• 89. Live Again
• 90. Ooh
• 91. Exempt
• 92. The Shadow of Your Smile [Love Theme From "the Sandpiper"]
• 93. Born To Be Blue
• 94. Love For Sale
• 95. Cryin' Blues
• 96. 'S Wonderful
• 97. Freedom Jazz Dance
• 98. Children's Song [Live]
• 99. Carry On Brother [Live]
• 100. Don't You Know the Future's In Space [Live]
• 101. Silent Majority [Live]
• 102. Walk Soft [Live]
• 103. South Side [Live]
• 104. Instant Death
• 105. A Little Wes
• 106. Zambezi Dance
• 107. Summer's On Its Way
• 108. Nightcap
• 109. Superfluous
• 110. Tampion

Credits

• George Gershwin: Composer
• Henry Mancini: Composer
• Jeff Beck: Guitar, Soloist
• Albert Lee: Guitar, Soloist
• Zoot Money: Piano (Electric)
• Chris Squire: Bass
• Steve Winwood: Piano (Electric)
• Ron Carter: Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
• Jodie Christian: Piano, Composer, Piano (Electric)
• Buddy Collette: Sax (Alto)
• Leonard Feather: Original Liner Notes
• Eddie Harris: Percussion, Piano, Trumpet, Arranger, Composer, Piano (Electric), Saxophone, Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Lyricist, Producer, Shaker, Cowbell, Vocal Arrangement, Remixing, Soloist, Electric Saxophone, Electric Trumpet, Synthesizer Strings, Reed Trumpet
• Billy Hart: Composer, Drums
• Billy Higgins: Drums
• Bobby Lyle: Piano (Electric)
• Grover Mitchell: Trombone
• Rufus Reid: Bass, Bass (Electric), Composer, String Bass
• Django Reinhardt: Composer
• Sonny Rollins: Composer
• Ira Sullivan: Trumpet
• Mel Tormé: Composer
• Cedar Walton: Piano
• Bobby Bryant: Trumpet
• Joe Diorio: Guitar
• Paul Humphrey: Composer, Drums, Drums (Electric)
• Billy James: Composer, Drums, Kilimba
• Charles Owens: Sax (Tenor)
• Sonny Phillips: Composer
• Odell Brown: Organ
• Frank Gordon: Trumpet
• Rick Grech: Bass
• Alan White: Drums
• Nancy Shanks: Tenor (Vocal)
• Bronislaw Kaper: Composer
• Ron Albert: Engineer
• Lofty Ameo: Conga
• Louise Anglin: Vocals
• Sol Bobrov: Violin
• Calvin Barnes: Percussion, Conga, Drums, Vocals, Gourd
• Edmund Bauer: Violin
• Bradley Bobo: Bass, Composer, Vocals, Lyricist, Arp, 6-String Bass
• Willie Bobo: Percussion, Conga, Drums, Timbales
• Oscar Brashear: Trumpet
• Leslie Bricusse: Composer
• Garnett Brown: Trombone
• Raymond Burrell: Bass
• Leon "Ndugu" Chancler: Percussion, Drums
• Ray Codrington: Trumpet
• Bob Crowder: Drums
• Cornell Dupree: Guitar
• Derf: Conga
• Joel Dorn: Producer
• Tom Dowd: Producer, Engineer
• Donald "Duck" Dunn: Bass
• Nesuhi Ertegun: Executive Producer, Supervisor
• André Fischer: Percussion
• Chuck Kirkpatrick: Engineer
• Karl B. Fruh: Cello
• Steven Galloway: Trombone
• Burgess Gardner: Trumpet
• Ira Gershwin: Composer
• Joe Goldberg: Original Liner Notes
• Louis Gonzales: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Bill Green: Sax (Alto)
• Lewis Hahn: Remixing
• Vivian Harrell: Vocals (Background)
• Geoffrey Haslam: Producer
• Mary Haynes: Vocals
• Marilyn Haywood: Vocals (Background)
• Willie Henderson: Sax (Baritone)
• Felix Henry: Percussion
• Delbert Hill: Bassoon, Horn (English), Oboe, Sax (Baritone), Sax (Tenor)
• Billy Howell: Trombone
• Neil Hubbard: Guitar
• Allen Jackson: Bass, Soloist
• William James: Drums, Electric Bongos
• Tony Kaye: Moog Synthesizer
• Harold E. Kupper: Viola
• Gerald Lee: Arranger, Vocals (Background)
• Stephana Loeb: Vocals, Soprano (Vocal)
• Johnny Mandel: Composer
• Arif Mardin: Producer
• Ennio Morricone: Composer
• Eugene McDaniels: Composer, Vocals, Guest Appearance
• Johnny Mercer: Composer
• Ronald Muldrow: Guitar, Composer, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Guitorgan
• Larry Nash: Piano (Electric)
• Ian Paice: Drums
• Don Pate: Bass, Soloist
• Karen Patterson: Soprano (Vocal)
• Ralph Penland: Drums
• Cole Porter: Composer
• Benny Powell: Trombone (Bass)
• Bob Ramey: Rhythm Synthesizer
• Joe Romano: Trombone, Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Maurice Spears: Trombone, Trombone (Bass)
• Charles Stepney: Composer
• Mary Ann Stewart: Vocals (Background)
• Jule Styne: Composer
• Bruce Swedien: Engineer, Remixing
• Marshall Thompson: Percussion
• Paul Francis Webster: Composer
• Robert Wells: Composer
• Snooky Young: Trumpet
• Everett Zlatoff-Mirsky: Violin
• Manos Hadjidakis: Composer
• Frederick Loewe: Composer
• Chuck Stewart: Cover Photo
• Tubby Zeigler: Drums
• Bob Merrill: Composer
• Billy Carter: Organ
• Bruce Hayden: Viola
• Marvin Lagunoff: Composer, Producer
• Dave Crawford: Piano
• Jimmy O'Rourke: Guitar
• Louie Spears: Bass, Cello, Composer, Fender Jazz Bass
• Haig Adishian: Design, Cover Design
• Loring Eutemey: Design, Cover Art
• Giuseppe Pino: Photography
• Scott Pollard: Engineer
• Richard Smith: Drums
• William Clarke: Percussion, Bongos, Tambourine
• Kim Taylor: Liner Notes
• Melvin Jackson: Bass
• George Bohanon: Trombone
• Harry Abraham: Liner Notes
• Yvonne Harris: Composer, Lyricist
• B. Kym Taylor: Liner Notes
• Bruce Sweden: Engineer
• Richard Evans: Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
• M. Dennis: Composer
• John Kelson: Sax (Tenor)
• Albert Aarons: Trumpet
• Richard L. Evans: Arranger, Producer, Mini Moog
• Richard Abrams: Composer, Piano (Electric)
• Sara E. Harris: Composer
• Lolita Harris: Composer, Lyricist
• Barbara Harmala: Composer
• Henry Gibson: Composer, Talking Drum
• Al Levine: Photography
• Al Hall, Jr.: Trombone