Bruce Harris

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Bruce Harris with Grant Stewart (left) at the Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este in Maldonado, Uruguay.

Bruce Harris (born September 5, 1979 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , composition ) who plays in the hard bop tradition.

Live and act

Harris 'passion for music came after watching Spike Lee's film Mo' Better Blues in his childhood . At the age of 13, influenced by the music of Charlie Parker , Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespies, he began to learn trumpet. He made his first appearances at the Essentially Ellington competition during his junior high school years; this led to a guest performance with Wynton Marsalis . He attended the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College , where he studied with Jon Faddis . After obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004, he worked in the New York jazz scene with musicians such as Marcus Strickland , Dave Brubeck and with big bands ( ghost bands ) such as the Artie Shaw Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra .

In 2008, Harris was a member of the Interplay formation and won the annual ICA / SF State International Competition. In the following years he also led his own quartet, with which he performed in New York venues. He also worked with Winard Harper's Sextet and Kendrick Oliver's New Life Jazz Orchestra . In 2009 he obtained a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the Conservatory of Music (Purchase College) . In 2016 Harris recorded his debut album Beginnings (Posi-Tone), on which Dmitry Baevsky , Andy Farber , Grant Stewart , Jerry Weldon , Frank Basile as guest musicians and, Michael Weiss (p), Clovis Nicolas (kb) and Pete Van Nostrand (dr ) participated. In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 2008 and 2018, including a. with Matt Garrison , Hinton Battle / Count Basie Orchestra , Nick Hempton , Aaron Diehl and Herlin Riley ( New Direction ). Harris currently leads a quintet that includes Grant Stewart (tenor saxophone), Ehud Asherie (piano), Paul Sikivie (bass) and Jason Brown (drums).

The jazz trumpeter should not be confused with the jazz bassist Kevin Bruce Harris .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at Jazz Music Archives
  2. ↑ a b c Bruce Harris. Smalls, March 1, 2019, accessed March 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 19, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City