Bob Harris (pianist)

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Bob Harris (born September 27, 1943 in Los Angeles , † August 11, 2001 ) was an American jazz pianist , keyboardist and arranger .

Bob Harris was the son of Maurice Harris, who was a trumpeter in Doc Severinsen's Tonight Show Orchestra . He first worked as a jazz pianist in clubs in the Los Angeles area. In the 1960s he married the drug addict singer-songwriter Judee Sill , for whose debut album he wrote the orchestral arrangements with Don Bagley . He also played as a pianist for The Turtles . Around 1970 he worked with Gábor Szabó and was briefly a member of Frank Zappa's band The Mothers in 1971 , heard on the albums Playground Psychotics and Fillmore East, June 1971 , on which he was soloist on the Wurlitzer Electric Piano in Billy the Mountain , as well as on the John Lennon / Yoko Ono album Some Time in New York City . In the late 1970s, he toured with Ray Charles , writing arrangements for The Friends of Distinction and Jack Jones . After his musician career was overshadowed by drug problems for a long time, he died in 2001 of the effects of an overdose.

The pianist Bob Harris should not be confused with the keyboardist, trumpeter and singer of the same name, Bob Harris, who worked with Frank Zappa in 1980.

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  1. ↑ a b Frank Zappa Narkive
  2. ^ Judee Sill portrait at Dusted Magazine
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist, keyboardist and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2001